[ WiR #006 ]

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⌈ Week in Review #006 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

Saturday: [ #820 ]
Sunday: [ #821 ]
Monday: [ #822 ]
Tuesday: [ #823 ]
Wednesday: [ #824 ]
Thursday: [ #825 ]
Friday: [ #826 ]

Responses to secrets you missed, things you forgot to say, general comments about the week, etc. go here.

And this is it, the last call.

[Poll #1381590]

Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I dunno, is going through three pages of comments that lag really more onerous than going through 10 pages of comments that still lagged anyway because you had to keep reloading all the secrets every time you looked at a new page of comments? I can expand individual comment strings without having to go to a new page and sit around waiting for 165 image files to load.

And when I was ctrl-f'ing through the secrets I cared about, I couldn't avoid the worthless comments anyway.

It seems like there's a difference between people who had, say, 20 or fewer secrets they cared about and only really looked at the comments for those and the people who read all the comments regardless of the original secrets. For the former—who by the voting are in the majority—this system is much more efficient and much easier. For the latter, I can see the problem because you can't just scan through the site and see what catches your eye.

But for me, the lagging is worth only having to load three, maybe five pages of fandom secrets rather than ten.

[meran-flash.livejournal.com]

The lag I used to experience from the reloading of the secret images on each new page is NOTHING compared to the lag I'm experiencing now. Seriously, in the worst cases it's being thirty seconds and more.

I never read every comment regardless of the original secret. However, I DID read comments that did not regard the secrets I was interested in if the comments themselves were interesting. Now with the lag issue, it just takes entirely too much effort to read anything besides a very occasional comment thread. And here's the worst bit--the interesting comment threads, the ones with the most comments in them, are too hard to read! It just takes entirely too much time to expand it all. And god forbid if I wanted to comment MYSELF--hey, let's start the whole process over again. That'll be fun.

[moon-very-thin.livejournal.com]

This is an entirely unhelpful comment. But I was reading what you were saying about the lag, and wondering what you meant by it because I haven't noticed an appreciable difference. Then I realised this is because it always takes a good four to five minutes plus several reloads for me to load a new F!S post with all its images, and the best part of a minute to reload for each comment page. For me the new system is a godsend.

Obviously, the fact that there are people worse off isn't actually any help to your annoyance with the lag, because you're used to decent speeds. But if it cheers you up at all, imagine those of us in countries with rubbish Internet weeping over the 126k loading speed. :)

[meran-flash.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the sentiment

Only thing is... you've totally just defanged my argument now. I was gonna shut up about this pretty soon anyway, but yeah, if this new system actually causes you LESS lag, then I've got no more right to complain. Likely shutting up now. :)