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

Lightnin · #1 Oct. 3, 2013 20:38:06

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 · #2 Oct. 3, 2013 20:41:33

Cool

BobStanley · #3 Oct. 3, 2013 20:49:16

I've noticed it was a little faster.

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

The_Grits · #4 Oct. 3, 2013 20:56:39

BobStanley wrote:
I've noticed it was a little faster.

Me too! Great job Scratch team!

pokemonlove33 · #5 Oct. 3, 2013 21:30:38

That's good to here

scratchisthebest · #6 Oct. 3, 2013 21:33:42

aww, search is still laggy

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

doggydudet · #7 Oct. 3, 2013 21:55:35

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 · #8 Oct. 3, 2013 21:56:04

pokemonlove33 wrote:
That's good to here

I agree

Dudedman · #9 Oct. 3, 2013 21:56:30

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 · #10 Oct. 3, 2013 22:02:32

ok

Exhelah · #11 Oct. 3, 2013 22:10:52

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 · #12 Oct. 3, 2013 22:18:55

cool

7734f · #13 Oct. 3, 2013 22:24:51

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 · #14 Oct. 3, 2013 22:25:19

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 · #15 Oct. 3, 2013 23:08:46

The_Grits wrote:

BobStanley wrote:
I've noticed it was a little faster.
Me too! Great job Scratch team!

I know

joshuaho · #16 Oct. 3, 2013 23:10:55

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 · #17 Oct. 3, 2013 23:50:32

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!

Happiny-64 · #18 Oct. 4, 2013 01:02:08

W00T!

butterking829 · #19 Oct. 4, 2013 01:17:35

awesome!!! The new update is probably awesome!!

LilyDog9 · #20 Oct. 4, 2013 01:29:32

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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