Question

Open study seriously needs less script and stuff...it slows down the website a whole lot. This website needs to be more effective than pretty.


And also, fix that loading glitch, where opesntudy just never loads the questions and keeps giving you the loading symbol forever.....

Answer 1

thats so true

Answer 2

I agree about fixing the lag. I don't agree that the script should be less. OS is not really that pretty in the first place. It's basically a bunch of boxes.

Answer 3

The scrip slows it down a whole lot, it needs to be cut down a little. And interms of coding (css or bootstrap or what ever they used) it looks very pretty. All the little animations and pop ups can be downsized a little. Also. The chats.....god please fix them.....they're terrible....and do some sort of vote kick thing on them....because there can be some seriously annoying people on them.....

Answer 4

And this site loses connection with me every 2 seconds....

Answer 5

same here

Answer 6

Yeah. OS has some problems.

Answer 7

yep

Answer 8

yup

Answer 9

A lot...and it has such good potential too ;-;

Answer 10

yup

Answer 11

Loop

Answer 12

if you have infininte loading its the loop and you need a new account
if you have exessive load times its called the loading wheel of doom

Answer 13

obviously is not the loop! XD

Answer 14

I agree with you! It is so frustrating sometimes

Answer 15

@Jaynator495, no you don't need a new account. I restarted my comp and now it works fine.....its happened to me multiple times....

Answer 16

@Jaynator495 is right u would need a new account till its fixed my account is stuck in an infinate loop

Answer 17

@kidrah69 It just happened to me like 30 mins ago.....

Answer 18

its been happening to my account for a day now...

Answer 19

I'm sure your problem is in this script.....I'm sure of it....


http://assets.openstudy.com/javascripts/base-libs.js?e7599182bcb628c5a6b47b1d80a4c3bc:1

Answer 20

I don't want to click the link until I'm sure it's safe.

Answer 21

@kidrah69
Do you know who posted the harmful link in the chats?

Answer 22

Let me take it to the PM's. Sorry.

Answer 23

@confluxepic its an openstudy link, it wont do anything, it just displays the script.

Answer 24

Okay.

Answer 25

Wow. That's some huge script.

Answer 26

the harmful link was posted in the math chat

Answer 27

But who posted it?

Answer 28

no naming and shaming :)

Answer 29

Ok.

Answer 30

Yea, twords the end it starts talking about the bans and all that stuff, i dont think thats a problem....

Answer 31

i dont understand those kinds of things,,,scripts and all

Answer 32

It's the code.

Answer 33

That makes this website.

Answer 34

Neither do I but if you look closesly, it starts writes the prompt that you see when youre banned, telling you to read the CoC and TaCs

Answer 35

@omarbirjas
The problem wasn't the script. It was a harmful link.

Answer 36

Well most of the website at least....this is everything that you can see...

Answer 37

wait....pooja...you clicked on a link???? gimmeee pleeaseee, i wanna see what it is....

Answer 38

it was a link to the subject which broke my account

Answer 39

Hey, i found a solution...i think...but this is server side. http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/292613 get somebody to look at it...its a community based script...open source...

Answer 40

@e.mccormick is it okay to use?

Answer 41

What does that do?

Answer 42

How do you use it?

Answer 43

^

Answer 44

And is it safe?

Answer 45

http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/55143f3ae4b06dd0d7c89092

I'm fixing to cry

http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/55143f3ae4b06dd0d7c89092

Understand

Answer 46

PLease
I'm begging you

Answer 47

Most of this information you can find if you dig through old posts by the original developers:

The original site was written by a largely student team. Now, what they put together had some pretty amazing points, but was not designed to scale. This was revised by a number of different developers to get it to be able to cluster properly. Now it is in the hands of a professional team and they have been fixing bugs, doing optimizations, and implementing a few new features. All of their work is aimed at making the site better and more financially viable so that it can continue to be redeveloped, improved, etc.

The painful side of all this, well, you know. Not every revision has been successful. However, I have not seen a full blown Orange War in months. Site up time is far higher than before.

Now we are looking at a large set of updates rolling out this weekend. I hope that all the other fixes, along with what they have done, will make the site better. I do not know if it will or will not. I just know what the goal is an have the best of hopes.

Answer 48

@e.mccormik , it'd be better if you guys started from scratch....keep this website up until you have another one made out.

Answer 49

@confluxepic @kidrah69 I don't know, thats why i said let a pro look over it and review it before you us it...I don't even know if it's that good...

Answer 50

@e.mccormick

Answer 51

The future OS generations might never experience the orange war. :D

Answer 52

Lucky them.....it's annoying when that happens.....

Answer 53

It is not practical to start from scratch without a viable interim.

Answer 54

It would be practical performance wise. :P

Answer 55

Other then that... It serves no purpose and isn't needed as of this momment ._.

Answer 56

Maybe not, but you'll have a much better website. You can collect a capital from your donors, and after that, set up a team to create a new website and give them cut of the money to work with. And if you want the best result, make it a payed job not something that people volunteer to do. Honestly, this website needs to be worked on performance wise, not on the css and bootstrap.....

Answer 57

The programming staff is not volunteer. They are paid. However, development hours to do something like a new site are not trivial. In the last couple years, 5 or so groups have claimed they will do so and show up OpenStudy. We have not heard back from any of them.

What you need is a reliable site that is profitable so that you then have the cash flow to allow the proper development of the replacment.

Answer 58

And that's where finding the proper staff comes in.

Btw, loving the new update.....

However I dont think many people will be buying OwlBucks...most of us are broke students, remember? XD

Answer 59

Staffing is not free. Also, they took a lot of time finding the present developers. The present ones are also the group that stopped the orange war. So I would say they have done a lot better than many of the past ones.

Yes, I agree that the particular monetization they are working towards is not ideal. But there are other paid tutoring sites that succeed. So it is quite possible that it will help.

Answer 60

User 23...
sigh
sleepy did you break all your other users x_x