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Love playing that, but it isn’t available on Windows Phone. 🙁
Ok, easier “fix” than I imagined. At least for the short term. As long as one of the SPS caches doesn’t get found more than 30 times in a day, it’s all good. I’ve got until the Spring Campout event to make a permanent fix. 🙂
Aces.
GC.COM just changed the API and is now limiting the number of logs I can get for a given geocache. I’ll have to re-think the entire thing.
The last two are not WGA.
Nine collection. You don’t have the red 2010 tag?
Ok, I found the problem with those dates. I’ll get those fixed in the next few days.
That’s strange…only the first 7 logs are showing up on page 192???
I’m guessing that Birdin’s video on post 7 is messing with your browser.
COTM and SPS are both working now.
When did this start? I haven’t worked on either of those modules for a while…
Looking into it. Thanks for pointing it out.
I’ve started on making the map “dynamic”. The map won’t be very much different, but Dave won’t have to create it and upload it to his website every time the list changes.
I might be able to add a couple of nice things at to the map at the same time.
Just trying to keep things centered on Wisconsin. All we need is for someone to put Japan as their location…
I just screwed up the nice clustered map.
Fixed.
I signed up a while ago and my dot is not yet on the map. I entered coordinates in the map section on my profile but I am still hidden.
Fixed
I don’t think AFDRE is still there, but that is just my gut talking. Not so sure about Jesse’s Swimming Hole. It was too far for me to get to but tempting enough I kept looking at it…
Soon to find out on AFDRE. Already have it all planned out.
We’re going to need a whole BOD just for the LCG!
Can we please stay on topic? You are more than welcome to start a new thread. Thank you.
Nope. I don’t immediately see it. The CAT will weigh in soon, I suspect.
In your profile under Contact Info.
That’s worth looking into. Shouldn’t matter, but I’ll check that out.
I’m still hacking away at the To-Do list. I think I have the most critical ones taken care of.
The biggest thing has been getting the whole site stable and responsive. Moving the website to a server with enough memory took care of the stability problem. I’ve made lots of little tweaks to keep things moving along at a decent pace. Page load time has gone from 8-10 seconds to less than 2 seconds. It would be possible to get page load times to less than a second by using page caching, but that caused the weirdness with “logged in” vs. “not logged in” and “WGA Member” vs. “Non Member”.
For any techies or chronically bored that want to know what’s been done behind the scenes and the results:
- Moved website to new server with enough memory. This change alone cut the page load times in half.
- Turned OFF all page caching. This added a second or more to page load times, but it was causing too many issues.
- Installed and enabled a PHP cache on the server. Each page on the website is actually dozens of PHP scripts. Each script needs to be read from storage, compiled and interpreted by the server. The cache compiles all the scripts ahead of time and keeps them in memory. This change clipped a big chunk out of page load time and decreased the load on the CPU to almost nothing.
- Utilized a “Content Delivery Network” (CDN). A CDN takes some of the load off the server by serving static content (pictures, etc.) from their servers instead of ours. The CDN we’re using also adds another level of security and keeps some of the bad guys from even being able to access our website. This change took about a half second off page load times.
- Re-arranged the site menu. Strange as it may seem, the site menu takes up nearly 1/3 of the current load time. I was able to squeeze out another 1/2 second without losing any functionality.
- Relentlessly blocking hackers and scrapers. A large percentage of our server’s resources were being used to feed content to page scrapers and harvesters. Several MILLION IP addresses have been blocked from accessing the website as well as several entire countries. We don’t have any members in China anyway…
Thanks for sticking around through a couple of difficult months, and thanks for pointing out things that need fixing. Please continue to do so.
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