The shade of red of the “L” logo in the top-left corner changes depending on how much traffic the site gets. If you hover your mouse you see the number (currently: 20%). This is based on the min() and max() of votes, comments, and stories of the last 90 days in 15-minute blocks. Details.
I personally never quite understood why this is useful though.
pushcx can provide a better summary but tl;dr when the site was moved off of prgmr, it was decided to use DO’s hosted MySQL offering. Unfortunately, it was slow and missing query optimizations.
I’m very glad to see replies back. Thanks to everyone who works and supports this site for free and in their spare time.
Agreed with the kind words above. I had 105 unread replies, great to see that working again!
What does the traffic option do?
The shade of red of the “L” logo in the top-left corner changes depending on how much traffic the site gets. If you hover your mouse you see the number (currently: 20%). This is based on the min() and max() of votes, comments, and stories of the last 90 days in 15-minute blocks. Details.
I personally never quite understood why this is useful though.
For growth hackers to find the perfect time to post :)
Where’s the flag option for “uncomfortable truth I don’t want to hear”? :P
It doesn’t have to be useful to be fun to implement ;)
Not particularly useful… Notably interesting, somewhat charming.
So, when and why we were attempted to migrate away from mardiadb? And to what database system?
pushcx can provide a better summary but tl;dr when the site was moved off of prgmr, it was decided to use DO’s hosted MySQL offering. Unfortunately, it was slow and missing query optimizations.