12-30-2002, 09:59 PM
I'm sorry, I haven't been totally honest.
Have any of you stopped to think that there may be a reason that it was taken away (other than we just want to be assholes)?
If you want to go into the technical aspect of it, the quote button was originally taken away for 2 reasons.
1. It fucked up the page
2. It drains server resources because it has to query the database to drag up the quote each time. Get the same quote 50 times in one thread compounded with all the other quotes that are being quoted and it puts a strain on the server.
Problem 1 has been addressed, which I alluded to in the other thread, and addressed lightly here. It's not that we don't just want you to play with it (even though I made it seem that way) it is a drain on what little resources Accelerated Web provides us. Do we really want to go back to the days of CGI errors?
Have any of you stopped to think that there may be a reason that it was taken away (other than we just want to be assholes)?
If you want to go into the technical aspect of it, the quote button was originally taken away for 2 reasons.
1. It fucked up the page
2. It drains server resources because it has to query the database to drag up the quote each time. Get the same quote 50 times in one thread compounded with all the other quotes that are being quoted and it puts a strain on the server.
Problem 1 has been addressed, which I alluded to in the other thread, and addressed lightly here. It's not that we don't just want you to play with it (even though I made it seem that way) it is a drain on what little resources Accelerated Web provides us. Do we really want to go back to the days of CGI errors?