Re: [Cooker] mandrakeclub overloaded
Le Jeudi 20 Mars 2003 16:41, Jeremy Salch a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sorry, this site is currently overloaded. Please come later. > > MandrakeClub site is growing too fast, we are waiting for stronger > server(s) to cope with the increase of users activity. We have already > spread a load somehow by delegating the downloads to another server, but > that obviously wasn't enough... More to come. This is a very good ! MandrakeClub site is not growing too fast ;-) Only the servers are not growing fast enough ! I guess a very good future for Mandrake ;-) -- Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/ Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/
Re: [Cooker] mandrakeclub overloaded
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:48, Eric Fernandez wrote: > I have begun to use the forum on a regular basis now. I'll try to answer > support questions. Mandrakeclub has to be a centralised place, and I have > some suggestions : > > - I think that the club needs better theme, better forum design. Why not > doing a Galaxy theme by default for the club, which would be the new default > theme. I think it is always good for a vendor site to have a "new skin" > sometimes, to show they are very awake and dynamic. Blue and white colours > are too contrasted and difficult to read. Use pastel colours, with icons > that are in the 9.1 distribution (MCC new icons are so nice !) Reorganise > buttons, news (so that news appear on top.) Some theme are even lacking some > links (aqua2 has no "forum" link on top !) Why not doing a "theme" > competition ? Hate to say it but the easiest "theme" to read for me is the liquid theme. As for the forum... et al navigation is the roughest part. > > - I think there should be better forum organisation. We have still people > asking for support in the "guest" area. I think that forum should be > simplified, with support part and discussion part. And within these two > parts, restricted areas should be highlighted to show the people what they > would benefit by becoming members. For the moment, retricted areas are just > : one offtopic, news, documentation, development. If you want to make people > fancy becoming members, you should have something a little more "sexy" and > very highlighted (like integrating RPM on demand) > > - Why not integrate mandrakeexpert to the forum : a restricted part for > quick support. Maybe this would be a little complicated to manage use of > incidents units though. Or make mandrakeexpert a commercial place only and > leave free community support to the club. > > Eric > >
Re: [Cooker] mandrakeclub overloaded
Clive Dove wrote: Perhaps instead of this email subscription system, it might be better to set up a corporate nntp server with one or more cooker groups on it. You can get your feedback as easily and perhaps with better structure as we could return to former threads. When 9.1 development was at its peak, there were over 200 emails each day, so it was easy to lose track. By having your own nntp server, you will keep your participants down to those who are sufficiently interested to set up an account on their newsreaders. You could also set uo a password using the same criteria for people who subscribe to the email group. What about mirroring the club forums at a nntp-server too? Most newsreaders are much more advanced than the web interface (e.g. filter, scoring, etc.). Regards, Helge
Re: [Cooker] mandrakeclub overloaded
On Thursday 20 March 2003 10:41, Jeremy Salch wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sorry, this site is currently overloaded. Please come later. > > MandrakeClub site is growing too fast, we are waiting for stronger > server(s) to cope with the increase of users activity. We have > already spread a load somehow by delegating the downloads to another > server, but that obviously wasn't enough... More to come. > > > Strangely enough this error message is a good thing I guess > > > - -- > http://tblx.net/encrypt/[EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp key > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+eeE+sKWd3vub6wURApHTAKCEm5dJMF7PYrV+XagaOp0Uh6T/lgCeMuL8 > xDvM2ZI3BiYam6zon2Uzwzw= > =KXRG > -END PGP SIGNATURE- Perhaps instead of this email subscription system, it might be better to set up a corporate nntp server with one or more cooker groups on it. You can get your feedback as easily and perhaps with better structure as we could return to former threads. When 9.1 development was at its peak, there were over 200 emails each day, so it was easy to lose track. By having your own nntp server, you will keep your participants down to those who are sufficiently interested to set up an account on their newsreaders. You could also set uo a password using the same criteria for people who subscribe to the email group.
Re: [Cooker] mandrakeclub overloaded
I have begun to use the forum on a regular basis now. I'll try to answer support questions. Mandrakeclub has to be a centralised place, and I have some suggestions : - I think that the club needs better theme, better forum design. Why not doing a Galaxy theme by default for the club, which would be the new default theme. I think it is always good for a vendor site to have a "new skin" sometimes, to show they are very awake and dynamic. Blue and white colours are too contrasted and difficult to read. Use pastel colours, with icons that are in the 9.1 distribution (MCC new icons are so nice !) Reorganise buttons, news (so that news appear on top.) Some theme are even lacking some links (aqua2 has no "forum" link on top !) Why not doing a "theme" competition ? - I think there should be better forum organisation. We have still people asking for support in the "guest" area. I think that forum should be simplified, with support part and discussion part. And within these two parts, restricted areas should be highlighted to show the people what they would benefit by becoming members. For the moment, retricted areas are just : one offtopic, news, documentation, development. If you want to make people fancy becoming members, you should have something a little more "sexy" and very highlighted (like integrating RPM on demand) - Why not integrate mandrakeexpert to the forum : a restricted part for quick support. Maybe this would be a little complicated to manage use of incidents units though. Or make mandrakeexpert a commercial place only and leave free community support to the club. Eric
Re: [Cooker] mandrakeclub overloaded
On Thursday 20 March 2003 16:41, Jeremy Salch wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sorry, this site is currently overloaded. Please come later. > > MandrakeClub site is growing too fast, we are waiting for stronger > server(s) to cope with the increase of users activity. We have already > spread a load somehow by delegating the downloads to another server, but > that obviously wasn't enough... More to come. > > > Strangely enough this error message is a good thing I guess > There are currently, 170 guest(s) and 136 member(s) online. So around doubled of normal presence there I would say -- Regards Steffen counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
[Cooker] mandrakeclub overloaded
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, this site is currently overloaded. Please come later. MandrakeClub site is growing too fast, we are waiting for stronger server(s) to cope with the increase of users activity. We have already spread a load somehow by delegating the downloads to another server, but that obviously wasn't enough... More to come. Strangely enough this error message is a good thing I guess - -- http://tblx.net/encrypt/[EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+eeE+sKWd3vub6wURApHTAKCEm5dJMF7PYrV+XagaOp0Uh6T/lgCeMuL8 xDvM2ZI3BiYam6zon2Uzwzw= =KXRG -END PGP SIGNATURE-
