Saturday Slowdown?
Just a headsup that I invariably notice the site slows down around 5pm GMT on a Saturday, to the point that conversations become difficult to continue.
Today it was a conversation between me in the UK and another member in the UK. It's also taking ages to post this on here,so I think it's a general sitewide issue.
@DavidEss Messages have to go to Amazon in Portland, Oregon (apparently) and back. Then there's the time the server there takes to process them. I have no idea what causes the weekly slowdown, though.
Charlie
@RarelyCharlie
thanks for the reply. Perhaps the site is just busier then, although there aren't more conversation requests visible than usual.
More likely is that the Amazon servers are busier then - although I don't have a probem with Amazon itself. Or maybe it's just the Internet creaking as everyone in the UK turns netflix on. Whatever it is, it's stopping us from chatting on this platform at that time.
Over to you 😝
@DavidEss Over to me???
Just for interest, I made a timer and sent myself some messages, member account to listener account. They took about a third of a second (350 ms) to arrive. It's now 6 p.m. here (5 p.m. GMT) on Monday. If I'm around at the same time on Saturday I'll try it again and compare.
Charlie
