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Wouldn't the easiest way to test this just be to crank it up to a large number (like 1000) during off-peak hours and see if there's a noticeable slowdown? If there is, revert; otherwise, we're fine.

Dusk Eagle wrote:Wouldn't the easiest way to test this just be to crank it up to a large number (like 1000) during off-peak hours and see if there's a noticeable slowdown? If there is, revert; otherwise, we're fine.

If I understand how it works, I don't think that doing that would tell us anything. The amount of work done under the current 300 cap should be the same as the work done under a 1000 cap, for nobody has 300+ liked posts. A handful of people have 300 or more likes, but they are never distributed 1 per post.
For example, among the heavy contributors, Araban has 392 likes on 277 unique posts; I have 304 likes on 187 unique posts. John Fairbairn, the most liked poster on L19, has crowded his 796 likes into only 230 unique posts.

I may be wrong about it, but that is my current understanding.

...for nobody has 300+ liked posts.

Yeah, I didn't check for that.

Dusk Eagle wrote:

...for nobody has 300+ liked posts.

Yeah, I didn't check for that.

But your idea will come in useful eventually. We'll try it in a year or two, when someone gets to 500+ liked posts.

xed_over wrote:

Joaz Banbeck wrote:I haven't changed anything yet.

well, that's unfortunate. something clearly changed for me. there are so many links in the chain, so its really very difficult debug things like this. for all we know, maybe the L19 hosting company rebooted their sql server.

this is probably the wrong thread for this, since apparently my issue no longer appears to be related to the change mentioned in the initial topic of this thread...

long threads are taking longer to render/load again. I started noticing it at least a few days ago.

I was thinking the same thing today! For me it is a little difficult to tell because I commonly use three different machines on different networks, but by today I definitely thought that things had slowed down this week (roughly speaking).

Now that you, joaz, have 500+ likes, is it time to raise the cap again and risk the wrath go the bbcode gods?

jts wrote:Now that you, joaz, have 500+ likes, is it time to raise the cap again and risk the wrath go the bbcode gods?

I guess it is. Here goes...*tweak*

But, remember: I only 555 likes on 327 unique posts. Bill Spight has 607 likes on 359 unique posts. He is the one straining the system by being liked so much. If something goes wrong, it is all Bill's fault!!

It seems fine to me.

Yeah, likewise, it looks nice and speedy to me. (btw, joaz, do you have a special admin display where you can see how many posts have been liked rather than how many likes there are? Or is this something public that I have never stumbled on?)

Joaz Banbeck wrote:

jts wrote:Now that you, joaz, have 500+ likes, is it time to raise the cap again and risk the wrath go the bbcode gods?

I guess it is. Here goes...*tweak*

But, remember: I only 555 likes on 327 unique posts. Bill Spight has 607 likes on 359 unique posts. He is the one straining the system by being liked so much. If something goes wrong, it is all Bill's fault!!

Not to mention JF!

ez4u wrote:...
Not to mention JF!

Actually, Mr. Fairbairn has managed to crowd his chart-topping 961 likes into a mere 266 posts.

Did you revert this back to 300 at some point?

Joaz Banbeck wrote:Bill Spight has 607 likes on 359 unique posts. He is the one straining the system by being liked so much. If something goes wrong, it is all Bill's fault!!

Wait, wait, wait--for Bill's posts, you have to use miai counting...You take the total number of likes divided by difference in his number of posts and the number of responses he's received to those posts...

For anyone who has been as clueless as I have - the numbers of "likes" and "liked bys" displayed on someone's profile page has always been limited to 200 (and thus, finding good posts on someone's profile has been hard for about a year). But the limit that Joaz keeps raising is the number of posts visible through the "Gratitudes" links on the top of the forum (sandwiched between "members" and "user cp"). There, you can find all of someone's liked posts, from the earliest to the most recent. As a bonus, there are no doubled posts - each post displays once on the list, no matter how many times it was liked.