Question

Well Everytime the site is down for maintenance it shows "Guarding new features" .But wouldnt a message like "Having maintenance work.Will be back soon " more apt ?1-2 years before this message was meaningful because we had a new feature every week. These days we dont see any new features at all .Just my opinion.

Answer 1

I agree with u

Answer 2

@Preetha I had emailed you about this idea too

Answer 3

why do they have to close the whole site to work on it anyways? i never shut down sites when i am working on them

Answer 4

A good suggestion AravindG.

Answer 5

indeed

Answer 6

Yea.
But then if they did that, it would look bad.
Rly.
Maintenance every 4-hours, everyone ? ;)

Answer 7

This site really has a problem regarding the way they handle the scripts and AJAX/JavaScript on here. Way too much of that. It's almost abused. Why check the SmartScore every 1 seconds ? and the PMs every 5 seconds ?? That really doesn't work on a large-scale website. It just lags everything, and when a script crashes on the server, since it's so dependent on them the whole site crashes.
And they really need to give their server a boost. It's much too slow.

Answer 8

^^you saved that paragraph on your computer ?lol

Answer 9

LOL^^ Anyway I agree with this. I remember the good old days with new features and WARNINGS before we would get shut down.

Answer 10

Yeah thats a good point Swag mentioned .We do not get a warning now before the site gets shut down .

Answer 11

I guess we could put maintenance ideas on this trhead can we?

Answer 12

i was just gonna ask his i think there should be a schedule when they have updates like twice a day would be fine but not very 2 - 4 hours

Answer 13

*this

Answer 14

they should do them at night like normal websites do it...when the least amount of users are online

Answer 15

This site is just poorly ran end of story

Answer 16

?

Answer 17

@godorovg Oh yes. Alas. The calm air from a a pessimist *always* brightens up the situation :)

Answer 18

Usually its Agent .

Answer 19

hehe.
I love tyto's sarcasm.
She's funny with her pessimism.
But- yesterday, she went too far :\

Answer 20

WOW!!
IT'S OFFICIAL!!

LOOK AT THE BOTTOM LEFT!!
"Scheduled downtime 12.30 am Sunday, Pacific time.
Please pardon our binary dust as we Bring You a Better OpenStudy (tm)"

Answer 21

Woah!
That proves that the admins still maintain the site..
then thats weird.
Why don't they follow our suggestions ? Why didn't they implement my scripts?

Answer 22

I knew it !! They were working behind the scenes !!

Answer 23

omg.
thats awesome.

who knows... a new version comin' soon ? ;)

Answer 24

What else could that "Bring You a Better OpenStudy" mean... ? ;)

Answer 25

@dumbsearch2 Its the old message

Answer 26

wat old message ? :\

Answer 27

OH you mean for new features ?

Answer 28

1-2 years before this message was meaningful because we had a new feature every week. They are still showing the same message when now they do only maintenance

Answer 29

how do you know ?

Answer 30

Just a fact

Answer 31

how
do you know
that they'res not new features this time

Answer 32

I have info from the team

Answer 33

They are working on stabilizing the system now.That is why all suggestions piled up.

Answer 34

huh
how did you know

Answer 35

Because they used to do it all the time 9 months back.

Answer 36

Love this chatter. Thanks Aravind. We are launching a new partner tomorrow. It is a community college offering a MOOC. So we had to make some changes. Yes there are a lot of feature requests and we will get to them soon. Thanks for your feedback.

Answer 37

Great ! I hope the site will benefit from the new partner :)

Answer 38

Certainly. And we want the learners to benefit from you!

Answer 39

Always ! :)

Answer 40

That sounds truly awesome :-)
They've been a lot of feedback requests along the past year... You've got your work cut out for you! ;p

Hope these scripts http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/517fe733e4b0501a0d225c67 could help along the way-