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    • coliver
      coliver last edited by

      I've only gotten that once in the past month. It was in the wee hours of the morning though.

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      • MattSpeller
        MattSpeller @Deleted74295 last edited by

        @Breffni-Potter said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

        @MattSpeller said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

        Perhaps Brexit traffic... that thread exploded this morning

        It's been happening a lot in the past month. Maybe Scott's bot has more CPU to post.

        Perhaps you're right, he could be a bot... he seems to post paragraphs to my sentences

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        • Deleted74295
          Deleted74295 Banned last edited by

          Or a hive mind AI?

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          • JaredBusch
            JaredBusch last edited by

            I have been seeing this a lot recently.

            the loading bar stopping across the top with the loading circle spinning on the right.

            0_1466793439669_upload-a4cde1e5-aae8-46e1-aa1e-bd97d226024d

            Pages load. I believe that is websocket stuff?

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            • thwr
              thwr @JaredBusch last edited by

              @JaredBusch yepp, like this:

              0_1466793694067_upload-d5f92c4e-f5ac-4d52-aa5c-ee10b18c8da7

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              • scottalanmiller
                scottalanmiller @Deleted74295 last edited by

                @Breffni-Potter said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

                @MattSpeller said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

                Perhaps Brexit traffic... that thread exploded this morning

                It's been happening a lot in the past month. Maybe Scott's bot has more CPU to post.

                I'm a bit shocked that we keep hitting it and sadly don't know what is causing it. We have loads of available CPU when it happens, from what I can tell.

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                • scottalanmiller
                  scottalanmiller last edited by

                  Our hits have increased a lot this month. We used to be in the hundreds of thousands of views per day but are in the 4 - 36 million range now (hits, not completely thread loads, but the numbers are important for resource and capacity comparisons.) So our little web server is taking about half of that and CloudFlare is taking almost exactly half. Load seems fine, however. But recently our need to handle high capacity has exploded. Our views so far this month are over 170m.

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                  • scottalanmiller
                    scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn last edited by

                    @brianlittlejohn said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

                    I get that 3-4 times a day, everyday

                    Now that is weird. I think that I'm still the most active person and I'm seeing it about once per week, only.

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                    • scottalanmiller
                      scottalanmiller @JaredBusch last edited by

                      @JaredBusch said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

                      I have been seeing this a lot recently.

                      the loading bar stopping across the top with the loading circle spinning on the right.

                      0_1466793439669_upload-a4cde1e5-aae8-46e1-aa1e-bd97d226024d

                      Pages load. I believe that is websocket stuff?

                      Crap, I thought that that was just me. In Romania it made sense since I was loading over a busy pipe and from over the pond. I see it here but I've got DNS issues here in New York. I didn't know anyone else was seeing issues like that. Craptastic.

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                      • JaredBusch
                        JaredBusch @scottalanmiller last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

                        @JaredBusch said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

                        I have been seeing this a lot recently.

                        the loading bar stopping across the top with the loading circle spinning on the right.

                        0_1466793439669_upload-a4cde1e5-aae8-46e1-aa1e-bd97d226024d

                        Pages load. I believe that is websocket stuff?

                        Crap, I thought that that was just me. In Romania it made sense since I was loading over a busy pipe and from over the pond. I see it here but I've got DNS issues here in New York. I didn't know anyone else was seeing issues like that. Craptastic.

                        I always see it when I know I am on craptastic pipe (read: driving down the highway with poor LTE service). I expect it then because of the nature of websocket calls and such.

                        Today I noticed it while on site at a client with a 100 mbps fiber that is rarely pushing more than 30 mbps.

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                        • bbigford
                          bbigford @scottalanmiller last edited by

                          @scottalanmiller said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

                          Our hits have increased a lot this month. We used to be in the hundreds of thousands of views per day but are in the 4 - 36 million range now (hits, not completely thread loads, but the numbers are important for resource and capacity comparisons.) So our little web server is taking about half of that and CloudFlare is taking almost exactly half. Load seems fine, however. But recently our need to handle high capacity has exploded. Our views so far this month are over 170m.

                          Wow, I knew the community was organic at this point but that's crazy. What do you think is causing the most draw in views aside from word of mouth?

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                          • scottalanmiller
                            scottalanmiller @bbigford last edited by

                            @BBigford said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

                            Wow, I knew the community was organic at this point but that's crazy. What do you think is causing the most draw in views aside from word of mouth?

                            Search Engines. We have some decent anecdotal evidence to support this. Like people I've known from my career pre-ML who have reached out to me to tell me that some of the world's biggest companies are using the site to search for solutions. My old team at the bank was looking for solutions to Linux problems that they had and they found the solution on ML via Google. And when they read the solution they realized that it was me and they Facebooked me to say that they had found the site organically via Google and then put two and two together.

                            Just one example, but that suggests that we've hit a threshold where that stuff can and does happen. once you cross that barrier it tends to snowball a bit.

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                            • scottalanmiller
                              scottalanmiller last edited by

                              After the last move to HTTPS the jump in search engine traffic was huge. Presumably our ranking jumped a lot.

                              Overall the site does really well in SEO based on the extreme level of content and constant activity combined with the incredible load speeds. That does a lot to boost us over the "competition".

                              We literally see, at least where I test, loads of like 10-100x faster here than some other popular IT discussion sites. That does a LOT for getting us search engine traffic.

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                              • MattSpeller
                                MattSpeller last edited by

                                FWIW I've never had a 503 to this website

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                                • DustinB3403
                                  DustinB3403 last edited by

                                  I've only seen it once.

                                  About a month ago, just refreshed and it was gone.

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                                  • Danp
                                    Danp last edited by

                                    Seems to be related to loading the ads. Here's the info from the browser console:

                                    TypeError: document.getElementById(...) is null
                                    https://ajax.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/nexp/dok3v=e982913d31/cloudflare.min.js line 4 > eval line 1 > eval
                                    Line 2
                                    

                                    The error seems to be on this line:

                                    document.getElementById('home-ad' + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 7) + 1)).className = '';
                                    
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                                    • JaredBusch
                                      JaredBusch @MattSpeller last edited by

                                      @MattSpeller said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

                                      FWIW I've never had a 503 to this website

                                      I too never see the 503 during normal use. I have gotten it and then noticed a post stating the site was being restarted, so those do not count.

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                                      • Dashrender
                                        Dashrender last edited by

                                        I've only see the page busy error once. As for the websocket loading bar spinning icon, I haven't seen that in ages.

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                                        • Danp
                                          Danp @Danp last edited by

                                          @Danp said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

                                          Seems to be related to loading the ads. Here's the info from the browser console:

                                          To clarify, this post was in reference to the spinning circle issue, not the 503 error. 😉

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                                          • JaredBusch
                                            JaredBusch @Danp last edited by

                                            @Danp said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

                                            @Danp said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

                                            Seems to be related to loading the ads. Here's the info from the browser console:

                                            To clarify, this post was in reference to the spinning circle issue, not the 503 error. 😉

                                            and this post is to confirm that I am only seeing the spinning circle and progress bar get stuck when the ads are failing to load. notice no ad below the my profile. also no add was at the bottom of the page.
                                            0_1466814837152_upload-fb86d551-dc5f-4bd7-ae05-9f9b9f77b852

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