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SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 21:20
by jj
You should have noticed that the new SpringFiles is online now.
I've worked a few months on it and it is almost complete.
At least the underlying structure, like the mirror system, that is smarter and more flexible than the previous one.
For example: it checks on remote mirrors md5 hashes to make sure the files are 100% the same.
But there is a problem. I can't get the site working fast. I've tried everything to get it working faster, but it looks impossible.
It seems that the CMS Drupal is just too heavy for a site like this.
Since speed and responsiveness is the number 1 priority i'm thinking about reverting back to the old site.
What is your opinion about the new site, should it stay or should it go?
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 21:26
by AF
extensive caching ftw!
Most of what a filesite actually does is nondynamic in nature once the content is there, and wordpress installs can exploit this massively, considering drupals popularity, Id be surprised if no similar alternative existed to plugins like wp-supercache etc
The site also perform abysmally on tests like the Chrome adut page, or firebug, and the javascript overhead of a loaded page is a lot heavier than it needs to be.
Looking at it here, the sites fine, its not lightning fast though. What you should bear in mind however is that the old v2 was not faster, if anything this 'slow site' is a big improvement over the 'v2 slower site'
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 22:36
by AF
Other feedback:
- Not loving the 2 giant advertisements, no google text ads?
- Why are the menu sections collapsable? It doesnt serve any utility in this case
- Because to view the site correctly requires a minimum of 1200px in screen width, which not everyone has, even some high end laptops barely scrape this and fail because of window borders and scrollbars
- Considering the spacious width, a large quantity of it is wasted on blank space that serves no aesthetic purpose, almost a whole third of the login box could be shaved off, and that box could then be moved up yet again to save width space
- Why on earth would I want to know that there are 36 guests and 1 active user? Speed up pages by cutting out useless stuff and focusing on the whole point of the page
- No favicon?
- Forums? Unload unnecessary modules and plugins!
- Your jquery is out of date massively, 3 years to be precise! Your using 1.2.6, the rest of the internet has 1.4.4
- There's a long list of items that have missing expiry dates for caches, and some of them look like they're being dynamically generated on each page load, including jquery, why waste this time and effort? Just serve the files static
- CSS goes in the <head>, javascript goes just before </body> where possible
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 22:39
by scifi
it should stay !!!!!!!!!
needs a new logo though
im not gona go so deep as AF did, though i agree with some of the changes he posted.
But its 10000xxx times better certainly it must stays
congrats btw
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 22:59
by very_bad_soldier
Yeah, its fresh, it looks nice and you invested lots of work into it. And imo it does not feel slow (if you had not said it I would not know that there are performance problems). So it should stay.
+1 for the favicon though.
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 23:09
by luckywaldo7
Start a favicon + logo competition ftw :D
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 23:24
by Wombat
every time i look at this white area i got strange feeling its some bug, missing image or something :c but thats me, so nothing serious tbh.
only thing i would change is column highlighting (spelling? :D) every second could be grey, not only one.
anyway looks sex :)
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 23:40
by Forboding Angel
Stay, it's very nice.
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 14:17
by zwzsg
Can you switch the white into something dark?
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 14:38
by Gota
zwzsg wrote:Can you switch the white into something dark?
+1
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 16:50
by Forboding Angel
zwzsg wrote:Can you switch the white into something dark?
Yeah, no. I like being able to actually see/read what I'm looking at for a change.
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 18:16
by zwzsg
Yeah, no, the white background precisely make it hard to see/read what I'm looking at.
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 03:22
by Forboding Angel
So dark text on a white background is hard for you to read?
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 11:48
by LameFox
Some people find reading in lower contrast easier, others not. Not sure there's much that can be done about it.
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 13:42
by AF
I think its the white background with dark text ontop of the dark background with white text that makes it harder. Either or, but not both at the same time
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 13:47
by Licho
Site is not slow by itself and it newly runs on main spring server (springrts.com) which is faster and uses caching well.
But it suffered from some bug that caused it to deadlock mysql raping server. Thats why some autohosts/relay hosts lagged.
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 14:54
by Masure
File download website causing deadlock
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 15:49
by zwzsg
While we were here discussing colors and themes, we missed a major point! ALL PERMALINKS HAVE DIED!
Exemple:
http://jobjol.nl/1683 -> page not found!
Aaaaahh! Are you going to fix it jj, or am I supposed to track down all the places I linked to files on SpringFiles, on every youtube comment, on every forum post, everywhere on the internet?
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 16:00
by aegis
Licho wrote:Thats why some autohosts/relay hosts lagged.
springrts master relay hosts haven't been running there since mid-december.
if you or other people want to unload autohosts to my dedi, I can give you accounts
Re: SpringFiles 3.0 stay or go?
Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 02:06
by smoth
just do a grey on the white background. that should reduce the contrast and allow you to keep the area of focus.