Eric, the frustration in your email is visceral and leads me to one question:
When did you last pay for an SLA in relation to wsprnet? -- finger painting on glass is an inexact art - apologies for any errors in this scra^Hibble ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. On Tue., 15 Oct. 2019, 08:37 Eric NO3M, <n...@no3m.net> wrote: > This kind of ignorant response is frankly infuriating and in itself shows > why wsprnet.org is going to hell to put it kindly.... > > I am very active in the LF/MF community and WSPR is heavily used for > propagation studies, realtime band opening indication, etc. Ask anyone in > at least the US and VK LF/MF community what they think of wsprnet.org... > > There are definitely spots that never make their way to the database, > numerous in fact. The poor system performance is a recurring topic in the > LF/MF chat group. Almost nightly someone complains about slow response or > that the database part of the site just simply will not load. You can't > definitively say all spots are being imported into the database... from the > site's vantage point there is no way of knowing what is missed due to the > site being unreachable when those lost spots are coming in. > > The "database" part of the site is very often extremely slow to load or > never loads at all. Eventually, without fail, on a daily basis, the page > will fail to load when left open in a browser tab when it attempts to auto > refresh. > > I understand you are not part of the technical team, but perhaps the ones > responsible can be given the message loud and clear and not continue to > assume all is fine. The site (specifically the database infrastructure) > needs serious intervention. The folks that are responsible for maintaining > the site's functional integrity have failed miserably. Time to step up or > pass the responsibility on to a competent team. > > 73 Eric NO3M > > > > > > On 10/14/19 3:45 PM, Erwin Serle via wsjt-devel wrote: > > Not sure why you come to these conclusions, the website is not slow, it is > not abandoned and the spots enter the database nicely. > > The map issue is explained in the wsprnet org forum with the appropriate > solution as well. > > Users are managed steadily albeit sometimes slowly as I am probably the > only user admin doing any work on it at all most of the time. > > The other admins focus on keeping the site itself up and running and > solving the more technical issues. > > > Happy to give more insight if needed: > > Erwin, > > PE3ES/F4VTQ > > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 4:59 AM Benjamin Bänziger <helios.sola...@gmx.ch> > wrote: > > Hi, > > This is probably not the right place for this issue, but all other > options didn't get attention unfortunately. > > Over the past months and years, wsprnet got continuously slower, as more > and more people used the service. > Since a few months, wsprnet got unreachable for minutes multiple times a > day. It is common that database requests time out. > > wsprnet does also regularly lose wspr spots, because it is overloaded. > Since a week now, the map on wsprnet.org doesnt work anymore. > The official wsprnet e-mail is refusing e-mails since at least one year(!) > > > Over the past months, there have been countless complaints in the > wsprnet forum. And also countless offers to help to resolve this issue, > also offers for donations. > Yet nobody seems to take action. > > > I ask you to please find somebody who takes care of wsprnet.org. WSPR is > the best mode I've seen in ham radio for exploring propagation. It would > be very sad to see it go down like this. > wsprnet is a very important part of the WSPR mode. > > > Thanks. > 73 > > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >
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