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Lightnin
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

Don't know if you've noticed, but we're growing! Yesterday we had more traffic to the site than ever before. As a result, we've had to shift our energy to speeding things up so our servers can handle the growing load.

* Faster (and more efficient!) comment loading on all pages
* More stuff is cached! (That's a fancy way of saying: we're keeping stuff in our server's memory instead of reading it from the disk.)
* Project views are now shown on the explore page
* Bunches of little speedups in the backend

Even with these optimizations, the site is carrying a lot of traffic these days - especially during the week when schools are actively using it. So we're going to keep focusing on speed and glitches over the next few weeks.

Scratch On!

Last edited by Lightnin (Oct. 3, 2013 20:41:43)

jessepinky
Scratcher
100+ posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

Cool
BobStanley
Scratcher
100+ posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

I've noticed it was a little faster.

Last edited by BobStanley (Oct. 3, 2013 20:49:42)

The_Grits
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

BobStanley wrote:

I've noticed it was a little faster.
Me too! Great job Scratch team!
pokemonlove33
Scratcher
5 posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

That's good to here
scratchisthebest
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

aww, search is still laggy

i wouldn't mind a ~3hr forum downtime to make a search index or something.
doggydudet
Scratcher
44 posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

Awesome! I have actually noticed things getting speedier! By the way, there is a glitch where if you are signed out you can still see and click “follow discussion” and have it change to “unfollow”
musicstar41
Scratcher
6 posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

pokemonlove33 wrote:

That's good to here


I agree
Dudedman
Scratcher
11 posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

I have a question. Is there a way to make the custom blocks for all sprites (If so please tell me), if not would you please make it a future update. thank you for reading, scratch is the best
I hope scratch continues to grow
mom12345678910
New Scratcher
1 post

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

ok
Exhelah
Scratcher
100+ posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

I wonder what would happen if 2000 people all looked at the same project all at once, and that project added all of their usernames to a cloud list. That would probably crash the servers, am I right?

Last edited by Exhelah (Oct. 3, 2013 22:11:20)

ocool72
Scratcher
43 posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

cool
7734f
Scratcher
500+ posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

I think some of the traffic was my Technology class, my teacher just found out about Scratch, but I had to do more advanced stuff
So a class of 38 is now added to Scratch…
zorket
Scratcher
500+ posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

Exhelah wrote:

I wonder what would happen if 2000 people all looked at the same project all at once, and that project added all of their usernames to a cloud list. That would probably crash the servers, am I right?
Nope, scratch is too epic for crashing!
Smosher
Scratcher
98 posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

The_Grits wrote:

BobStanley wrote:

I've noticed it was a little faster.
Me too! Great job Scratch team!
I know
joshuaho
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

Lightnin wrote:

Don't know if you've noticed, but we're growing! Yesterday we had more traffic to the site than ever before. As a result, we've had to shift our energy to speeding things up so our servers can handle the growing load.

* Faster (and more efficient!) comment loading on all pages
* More stuff is cached! (That's a fancy way of saying: we're keeping stuff in our server's memory instead of reading it from the disk.)
* Project views are now shown on the explore page
* Bunches of little speedups in the backend

Even with these optimizations, the site is carrying a lot of traffic these days - especially during the week when schools are actively using it. So we're going to keep focusing on speed and glitches over the next few weeks.

Scratch On!

YYYAYYYYYY!!!!
KittyDance
Scratcher
17 posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

quote=Lightnin]Don't know if you've noticed, but we're growing! Yesterday we had more traffic to the site than ever before. As a result, we've had to shift our energy to speeding things up so our servers can handle the growing load.

* Faster (and more efficient!) comment loading on all pages
* More stuff is cached! (That's a fancy way of saying: we're keeping stuff in our server's memory instead of reading it from the disk.)
* Project views are now shown on the explore page
* Bunches of little speedups in the backend

Even with these optimizations, the site is carrying a lot of traffic these days - especially during the week when schools are actively using it. So we're going to keep focusing on speed and glitches over the next few weeks.

Scratch On!



GOOD!
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Happiny-64
Scratcher
76 posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

W00T!
butterking829
Scratcher
48 posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

awesome!!! The new update is probably awesome!!
LilyDog9
Scratcher
3 posts

Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up...

A couple days ago my messages were acting strange. It wouldn't tell me when somebody replied to my comments even though they did. Thankfully this update fixed this! Thanks a lot scratch team!

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