Question

anybody else notice openstudy getting pretty slow right now? @The OFFICIAL EFC …

Answer 1

Working fine for me.

Answer 2

yes, it took a long time for an answer to get posted.

Answer 3

Working smooth..

Answer 4

Are you using google chrome?

Answer 5

mine is getting slow in my typing and loading

Answer 6

yea i am using google chrome

Answer 7

Because more people want to get the answer than work on that !!!

Answer 8

I'm also using google chrome so maybe it was a temporary problem with the browser.

Answer 9

Typing is the confusing thing. So it takes longer for characters to appear in the text box?

Answer 10

no i was like typing this post and it was slow and then i was typing an answer and it was slow and now it is pretty fast with me so it seems google chrome is having a harder time

Answer 11

exactly shadow

Answer 12

Some super simple questions of kindergarden level often were posted, so ... people are getting bored on this site.

Answer 13

Long post times aren't “normal” per se, but they do happen when there are a lot of people being active (i.e., chatting, posting questions, posting replies, etc). They're usually inconsistent, in that you'll typically see some post quickly and some post more slowly, depending on what the server is dealing with at the particular moment you post.

Answer 14

yes I noticed that too.

Answer 15

But yeah, you're not the first to report issues where actual typing gets slow, and that's much more unusual. Does reloading the page help? It's possible as you stay a long time, because chat messages and questions accumulate, that you end up with excessive memory usage and that slows down the computer and the browser.

Still, that would be unusual.

Answer 16

(We have some things in mind that we can do to help mitigate that particular issue, we just haven't implemented them yet.)

Answer 17

reloading doesnt help i noticed tht its slow right now by a second or two for me right now!

Answer 18

I haven't noticed anything direct in Chrome. I mean, the typing is a bit delayed - but not by much. Almost as fast as on other sites.

Answer 19

what r ur plans if u dont mind me asking?

Answer 20

We can only bind the most recent chats and questions. So unless you scroll, the only ones that are showing are the ones you can see. When you scroll, we start inserting the ones you couldn't see before.

Answer 21

I have no problems with typing, only it takes a long time for anything to get posted.

Answer 22

Right now if you stay on the site and 800 people post questions, you'll have 800 questions in your questions list. This would make it so you would still only have 20-30, but as you scroll we'd load up the others.

Answer 23

Ok. Yeah, those are unrelated. The typing ones are issues in the actual browser; I'm going to have to try and look into those. The posting ones are issues on the server, or potentially with your connection (in that the post has to the server an then back).

Answer 24

They're a bit tougher to resolve, but hopefully aren't too common.

Answer 25

well i have noticed they are pretty common on typing lots of peepl say

Answer 26

Really? I haven't seen it. For example, this whole conversation has been pretty fluid for me. I hit post and it's done in milliseconds... hmm.

Answer 27

mine take like 10 or some times a minute but minute is rare

Answer 28

... 10 seconds? Jeez. That's terrible.

Answer 29

That has to be an internet connection issue, I think. Let me see how much data one of these requests involves.

Answer 30

k

Answer 31

karatechopper, just curious, are you on a home internet connection or university or school connection?

Answer 32

home cuz i am at home

Answer 33

900 bytes up, 1.5 K down. Not a huge amount we can necessarily do to compress that much. You're in India, right?

Answer 34

no i am in USA i am in oklahoma! but i am FROM india

Answer 35

Ah, gotcha. Well then. There goes my clever theory about the data having to travel around the world x_x

Answer 36

haha nice try

Answer 37

Ok, well, I have to bail at the moment. But I'll definitely look into some of that. It may be just a slower connection dealing with all of the stuff coming in from chats, other people's questions, plus your replies and such. We'll have to see.

Answer 38

k, and i was curious, does openstudy have their own buliding?

Answer 39

We don't, we work out of an office in the ATDC building in midtown Atlanta.

Answer 40

o cool my uncle lives in norcross and so how do u earn? is it a non profit organization

Answer 41

Here: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=ATDC,+5th+Street+Northwest,+Atlanta,+GA&hl=en&ll=33.777564,-84.388781&spn=0.002426,0.004029&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.001301,66.005859&vpsrc=6&hq=ATDC,&hnear=5th+St+NW,+Atlanta,+Georgia&t=h&z=18

Answer 42

Nothing yet, but we have clever plans. We don't intend to be non-profit, but we also intend to always provide the basics of OpenStudy (i.e., the stuff you're using now) for free. Circumstances may change that, but we're fairly confident that won't be the case.

Answer 43

And now, I'm out!

Answer 44

is tht next to georgia tech?

Answer 45

It's on Tech campus actually :)

Answer 46

my uncle is studying there right now!

Answer 47

!! Epic!

Answer 48

All but one of us (soon to be two of us) are either current or former students of Tech.

Answer 49

hmm what r u gonna learn from there like any more degrees?

Answer 50

Seriously though, I have to get out of here. My mother's preparing an epic paella and I need to get to my car and then to my parents' house 8-)

Answer 51

I finished my CS degree a couple of years ago. Peace out!

Answer 52

ccool have fun talk l8r bye