The Village Idiot Would Like to Make a Public Apology

[Brother Shatterstone]

Michael, no need to be sorry, and thank you for the hard work.

 

[tzor]

Remember that for every brilliant idea that works there is also a brilliant idea that doesn't work. The only way to figure out which brilliant idea you have is to ... try it.

So unless you are talking about a 24/7 service where interruption will cause either serious financial loss or death (like an air traffic system) trying a brilliant idea that later proves to be a flop is just a few minutes / hours of someone's time.

So in other words don't sweat the details. We appreciate everything you do. Even when sometimes the magic doesn't work.

 

[DanMcS]

Why didn't the news site experience this problem? I'm still not sure, but wager that the amount of visits has something to do with it. The boards simply get much more traffic than the news site.

In earlier threads, you said the script should be cached, so each user would only download it once. There appear to be two files involved, mm_menu.js and menu_contents.js, each a little over 30K. Are they just not being cached? So they get downloaded every time someone sees one of the forum page? Ouch. Is it being cached on the news site? Doesn't look like it to me, when I refresh that page the download time is up from what I vaguely remember it being before the menus. But you'd have to look at the http logs to be sure, see if there's multiple GETs for those two files from the same IP.

If you can't make it get cached (and I'm fuzzy on how that could be accomplished), then you might consider only putting the menu on the forums/forumdisplay.php and index.php, and not the newreply.php or showthread.php pages, which probably tend to get downloaded a lot more than the main forum pages. I don't know if you did that before or not.

 

[William Ronald]

Michael,

To quote the Bard of Avon, to err is human, to forgive divine. Don't be too hard on yourself. You are doing great job, and I have faith in you.

 

[Michael Morris]

In earlier threads, you said the script should be cached, so each user would only download it once. There appear to be two files involved, mm_menu.js and menu_contents.js, each a little over 30K. Are they just not being cached? So they get downloaded every time someone sees one of the forum page? Ouch. Is it being cached on the news site? Doesn't look like it to me, when I refresh that page the download time is up from what I vaguely remember it being before the menus. But you'd have to look at the http logs to be sure, see if there's multiple GETs for those two files from the same IP.

If you can't make it get cached (and I'm fuzzy on how that could be accomplished), then you might consider only putting the menu on the forums/forumdisplay.php and index.php, and not the newreply.php or showthread.php pages, which probably tend to get downloaded a lot more than the main forum pages. I don't know if you did that before or not.

On the news page they are combined into a single file, topmenu.js.

I'm going to leave things be for a moment, though I'm looking at other solutions.