mário m. rodrigues Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 the choice of category on the TRP view is unavailable. Temporary problem or permanent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottershead Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 I turned it off temporarily to see if that is what is causing things to be slow. I'm not sure what I'll do it the answer is yes, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_laban Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 The last few weeks have been very slow but site performance is certainly much better now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mário m. rodrigues Posted March 9, 2006 Author Share Posted March 9, 2006 It does seem to have gotten faster, my internet acsess is not the best to evaluate it (3G Wireless PC-Card).But I would say it did get faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mário m. rodrigues Posted March 9, 2006 Author Share Posted March 9, 2006 I hope that if the category view is responsible for making things slow you can find a way to fix it and keep it (I think it was a good improvement). But I can now say for sure that I am getting a much faster navigation and some problems I had with thumbnails not showing unless I reloaded are gone. If its of any use I am using FF 1.5 with fasterfox extension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottershead Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 It does seem a lot faster. I delayed a long time implementing that because I was afraid that the database couldn't handle it. When I finally implemented it, I tried to limit the number of additional combinations. The categories (other than "All") could only be ranked by "Average". However, all the Periods were still available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrettPrucha Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Perhaps just limit it to the past 3 days? Thats the most usefull one anyway as it really helps determine how your photo ranks within the same category when you put in a request. Grouping childs portraits with nudes isn't very helpfull. Nudes will always be ranked higher, duh (: The category feature was very nice. I hope you find a work around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louis1 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Would it not be better to just stop doing this on a continuous basis. Recompute the list of images for each option once a day or a week or a month. Instead of recomputing everytime someone requests a view. Louis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
root Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Wasn't there some discussion a while back about culling old photos from the database that wouldn't show up on any search? It isn't the number of variables that's the problem. It's the size of the database. I wonder how many photos have fewer than 10 rates, average lower than 5/5, posted by a non-subscriber who has been inactive for over a year. (Yeah, I know, that search alone will bring everything to a screaming halt, but I'll bet the percent of the total is quite large.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chetn Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 I must say that when I saw the category section I was very happy. In my opinion it brought this sites fuctionality up to a par with my other favourite photo sites. Please dont remove it permanently, it saves me so much time... on this site and elsewhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles1 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Good luck with restoring this feature. It was, in my opininion, one of the best improvements ever made on this site although I'm sure it must involve quite a lot of number crunching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_philbrick Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 The ability to view TRP by catagory was the best improvement I've seen to the site and I loved viewing photos with this method. Brian, I hope you can keep it running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amitai schwartz Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 One can still do a category search using the "browse" feature on the main critique requests page. Not quite as good, but it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottershead Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Its obvious that the category views in TRP were really slowing down the site. They didn't seem to at first, but it crept up on me. Turning it off has definitely accelerated things. I'd like to bring the category views back, but it will probably take me a few days to figure out a form of the feature that will give people what they want without being so much of a drag on the database. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yann_r. Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Brian,<br> Instead of allowing us to choose the category from the TRP page, couldn't it be easier (or faster or simpler) to add sub-menus appearing thanks to a mouseover on the text 'Top Photos' (exactly like 'Top Photos' appears with a mouseover on 'Gallery')? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned1 Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 I'll bet if you let people search on every category except "nudes" that would solve your problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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