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Chris Maunder wrote:
How do you handle articles with 200 comments?
If thats the case.... gimme a 'SAVE ONLY version', where in I can save the page with the comments?!?!
I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.
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Maybe have a link under each message to make a thread 'print friendly'? Sometimes real gems pop up in the forums that it would be really useful to be able to print out and keep.
Putting the laughter back into slaughter
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I agree. This would be very useful. 
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." - Jesus
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
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Since we have optionally to input birthdays in our profile then I think there is a seperate column in a table for birthdays. There should be a birthday thingy like the ones on the home page like the lounge and should be able to update automatically everyday. 
<marquee>Universal Project... Soon to be a .net
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Clickety.[^] 
 So many CP members with birthdays today (as w/ every day)!
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Two best sites for VC++ programmers are CodeProject and CodeGuru. CodeProject is more dynamic site, have interesting rate system and effective search engine. When I write a programming article, I need to decide where to publish it, and usually choose CodeProject (I have an articles in both sites). CodeGuru is very fast, always online, but is has no rating system and it's search engine is terrible.
When I am participating in message boards, and need to give a link to some article which apperas in both sites, I prefer to give link to CodeGuru.
It looks like performance and accessibility are always the CodeProject problems, all time it exists. It is interesting what another CodeProject members and CodeProject team think about this.
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The difference between CodeProject and CodeGuru is that CodeProject does a lot more with a lot less. We aren't owned by a muli-million dollar company nor do we have a large hardware budget. We are self funded which means we have to be very careful in how we allocate resources. We also have a far greater number of visitors.
We definitely have an issue at the moment where we are red-lining our bandwidth. We've been in negotiations for months with 3 of the leading hosting providers to fix this and we're optimistic this will be sorted out soon. We also know that we need more hardware plus some dedicated time to rearchitect some key aspects of the site. On top of this visitor numbers over the last 3 months have gone through the roof which is putting renewed strain on the site. A great problem to have, but one which needs attention.
More hardware means more licences which can mean a lot of money. More bandwidth means we will be facing a huge jump in our connection costs, plus more hardware costs for improved equipment. More dev time means, again, more money needed to pay our guy's rents.
This will all be done. Once we choose a new hosting solution we're locked in for up to 3 years, so if we rush this and make the wrong decision we're screwed. Our timeframe is November. We have also put together a budget for more hardware, but the form that takes depends on the hosting solution we choose. Again, November. As to dev time we have Nish and Smitha onboard to help take some load from me while working with me to redo the underlying infrastructure. This is ongoing.
So yes, we have some performance bottlenecks at the moment and it's causing us a lot of sleepless nights. We are aware of this and are working to fix it as soon as budgets, negotiations and sleep requirements allow us.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Thanks for the answer, Chris. I like CodeProject and this is a reason I opened this thread. When I see that site has a technical problems for a long time, I ask myself, what can happen in the future. Do you remember worldofatl.com? It was a great site, and now it is gone. It is good to see that you are working to solve the problems.
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Slightly off topic but how can we support CP? Visual Studio is still a bit expensive for me to get at the moment. Are there any other ways we could contribute?
Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Sacrifice some CD's or hardrives to the great God of the Internet next full moon.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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oookay... If it will help
Consider them sacrificed
The trouble with apathy these days is nobody cares.
Capital Punishment means never having to say "you again?"
As easy as 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169
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Chris Maunder wrote:
budgets
I'm sure you've thought of this, but wouldn't it be an idea to put a PayPal donation button somewhere on the site? I for one would be very happy to pay my tithes [;P], and I'm sure many others would too. I'm not sure, maybe you decided against this because the idea is that this site stays free, and that kind of thing may go against that. Just a thought, I'd be interested to hear your comments on that.
Paul
That demands capital punishment!! Death by a herd of marauding Bobs! - Ryan Binns
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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We've thought about it but we feel it will make things too messy. If you want to pay some due then just click on the banners and support our sponsors
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
it will make things too messy
Yes, that's a good point.
Chris Maunder wrote:
click on the banners and support our sponsors
Sure
Paul
That demands capital punishment!! Death by a herd of marauding Bobs! - Ryan Binns
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
We aren't owned by a muli-million dollar company
I thought CP was owned and supported by Dundas, it's not?
I do not know if this would work well or not, but you could have a simple "sponsors" button that would list all your sponsors or possibly a list of sponsors that would not actually have advertisements on the site. That is, a list hundreds (if not thousands) of sponsors of various types from various affiliates programs where CP can earn a revenue. They do not have to be tech oriented since some of us (not quite sure who) has more to living than just tech. People could actually support CP while buying gummy bears or those new satellite radio …
These affiliate programs like Commision Junction offer thousands of possible advertisers that would not really fit the nature of this site, but if they were listed in a special sponsor page, users that felt like supporting CP could visit those vast offers and generate a few extra dollars. You might be surprised at the response, even more so if you can find a way on CP to clarify that you are not backed by Dundas with deep pockets.
Another thought is that you could have links page where it would have a ton of links to other sites on various topics where people only had to pay say $5-$10 per month for a link. Would also be great on that page to have a category for recently posted links so we can check them regularly without having to go through all the older ones. You could have hundreds or thousands of links.
Chris Maunder wrote:
where we are red-lining our bandwidth
Have you checked into dedicated remote servers lately? I cannot seem to find any solutions that even come close. There are several companies that off more features, but as an example, ServerBeach (which I have ordered a server from) offers dedicated 2 Ghz Windows 2003 Server (not web) machines with 60 Gig of storage and a Gig of RAM with 900 Gigs of transfer for $139 per month and no setup fees. I know of nothing that is even close in T1-T3 prices. One place I found (but do not remember the link at the moment) offered dedicated servers with full 10 megabit wide open servers for a few dollars shy of $400 per month. I believe the latter provided hardware firewalls, backup drives and web farming.
Rocky <><
www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
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How bout a page with THIS:
(crap. i thought html would work in here...
well copy and paste this to a .html file and stick codeproject in front,
etc, etc)
It's kinda entertaining... All our ugly mugs...
  
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Do not click this link:
Steve, you're an evil man...
Your sincerity about keeping the soapbox organized and civilized is so obvious. I solute your effort.
-- Anonymous, 10/18/03
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Shog9 wrote:
Steve, you're an evil man...
Yeahhhh... I figured this would be a good test of my
WebScraper app 
Whew! Didn't know I'd end up with THIS!!!
Talk about frightening...
I should bring it to our cubscout pack meeting for halloween:
Yes kids - some of you will look like THIS!!!
Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Since you got Bill Sergio in there, how did you forget this one[^]. 
Chris Meech
It's much easier to get rich telling people what they want to hear. Chistopher Duncan
But for a man, barbecuing eggplant and portobello mushrooms is a sure way to have people question your sexual orientation. Kuro5hin
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Obviously, Steve's web-scraper isn't all it's cracked up to be. It didn't get me either... 
Oops, yeah it did. Well, you're just unlucky, Chris. But i tossed you in now anyway...
(hopefully this thing isn't chewing up too much bandwidth...  )
Your sincerity about keeping the soapbox organized and civilized is so obvious. I solute your effort.
-- Anonymous, 10/18/03
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Thanks. I'll forever be in your debt.
Chris Meech
It's much easier to get rich telling people what they want to hear. Chistopher Duncan
But for a man, barbecuing eggplant and portobello mushrooms is a sure way to have people question your sexual orientation. Kuro5hin
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Shog9 wrote:
Steve's web-scraper isn't all it's cracked up to be
Heyyyyyyy there, BUDDY!
It's bettern YERS!
neener neener neeeeener...;P
Okay, i'll shut up.
Tell me how to put img tags in one of these durn messages!!!
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"For a faster board use IE 4+ or Mozilla, choose 'Dynamic' from the View dropdown and hit 'Set Options'."
I am using the following version of Mozilla, but 'Dynamic' is not one of my options. Please update your browser support! Thanks...
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
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Many of the message boards are not seen by a large portion of the members as they do not have time to visit (yep, I am gulity, so what ).
What would be cool is if a person could specify the message boards to watch and when they first log in, it would display the last (x) amount of messages thread subjects for the messages bases they have selected. They could be listed above the survey on the main page and might ad more traffic to boards other than the lounge
Might even be nice to see a list of threads for each of the message bases a user has selected, be included in the newsletter so that they you do not miss out on important posts.
I personally would use both methods
Rocky
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