Boss updating the site or is the site just slow today?

[sega4life]

pbroy said:

But how long will the server say you are logged on before it decides to not count you as being online anymore? If its a pretty long window, you can have lots of people online who are just reading and not refreshing. People idling wouldn't be requesting information from the servers.

Wouldn't it make sense that 2000 people online who aren't refreshing at the same time, loading a page every 2 minutes or so, put less drag on a server than 1000 people online who are constantly loading pages and refreshing?

The people that stay idle on pages is a small fraction.

Some browsers have an auto refresh, which will refresh the page for you.

But I think that fraction is the same as people just leaving the page open as you stated above.

 

 

As for Digg.com, The gears article was Dugg & made Popular 2 days ago, and is off the front page.

I was on here when it first hit front page at it's peak and the pages loaded good, or better then tonight I should say.