The warm tones of FFF.NET 2.0

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HAKEN

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:52 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
Ah. I have a MySQL mindset. So, with that, having something in a separate DB, even on the same server, would mean a great deal in terms of performance. Shame really.

I don't know if I would call it a shame to not do it. From a support standpoint, it's really more of a hassle for the minuscule amount of performance gain.

If I had the hardware resources, I would much rather go the clustering route, but FFF.NET can't sustain that financially at the moment.

MOOSE

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:45 AM

Meh. I prefer the original colors.

But, I'm old and resistant to change...

HAKEN

Sunday, January 31, 2010 11:30 AM

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Originally posted by two:
Serenity 2.0
Right click the little box and "open image in a new tab" or "view image". You'll be redirected to a download page. I don't want to clutter this thread with a super wide image no one wants to see.

Hey, they look great on the beta site and changes every minute. The fireflyfans.net wording works better on the left than on the right due to the fluid layout of the site, so future ones should be on the left.

Other than that, if you want, you can sign it so that you get credit for the work. Use a smaller font and place it at lower left hand corner of the banner.

For anyone else interested in designing banners for FFF.NET 2.0, these are the specs:

1300x180 pixels
Should contain graphics related to Firefly.
"fireflyfans.net" wording on left side using papyrus font or something similar.
Credit yourself in smaller fonts at lower left corner of banner. Use "banner by your_name/handle" or similar wording.

Thanks for your hard work,
Haken

P.S. For those who missed the news, work on FFF.NET 2.0 ongoing. Here is the URL if you're interested in seeing how things are coming along.

http://beta.fireflyfans.net

REDLAVA

Monday, February 1, 2010 12:47 AM

It looks AWESOME!!!

SIGMANUNKI

Monday, February 1, 2010 7:33 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:

I don't know if I would call it a shame to not do it. From a support standpoint, it's really more of a hassle for the minuscule amount of performance gain.

With respect, it would take, at most, a couple hours to implement. That's hardly a lot of time, especially considering the total time to rewrite the site. Also, if one considers the difference in time to sort through a couple thousand records verses a million or more (we are talking another 10 years, yes), then the performance gained is hardly going to be "minuscule". Another site that does this is fairly well known i.e. Slashdot.

The real question here is not, would it improve performance, because that is clearly a yes. It's rather, would that improved performance matter?

If the site's traffic remains the same, I doubt that it will. But, that's not a "worse case." Say another movie (or something else) happens that would drive traffic here like the BDM. It's likely that the new site will suffer the same fate as this when the BDM came out (it will fall over).

Remember, in the software world things get slower, not faster. It just seems the opposite because the increase in G/CPU power is much faster than the increasing inefficiency of programmers. So, if you're keeping it on the same hardware...

At any rate, just pointing out something that would improve the site's performance. It's clearly up to you whether you think it'll matter enough to implement.

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"We don't fear the reaper"

TWO

Friday, February 5, 2010 5:21 PM

A pair of banners for "Haken" to consider for http://beta.fireflyfans.net

Out in the Open by David Metlesits http://davemetlesits.deviantart.com/art/Out-in-the-open-152295764

Serenity - Coming Storm by Jacob Charles Dietz http://jacobcharlesdietz.deviantart.com/art/Serenity-Coming-Storm-1097
25926

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

SAB39

Friday, February 5, 2010 6:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
The real question here is not, would it improve performance, because that is clearly a yes.

That sounds like it should be intuitively true but it really isn't with a decent database system. The problem is that too many people are under the illusion that MySQL is a decent database system... including Slashdot.

If you have a decent database system and well-chosen indexes on your tables, there's no need to "sort through" anything to get the most recent posts, because they're organized correctly to begin with. If performance can be improved by putting stuff in a different file then *the database server does that for you transparently behind the scenes*. If you have to do extra work to migrate data back and forth, that can *hurt* performance just as easily as help it.

I work with SQL server and it does a decent job of this even with pretty big tables. Admittedly I don't think I have anything with as many records as FFF would have, but on the other hand I have done some pretty insane joins over tables with hundreds of thousands of rows and they work okay.

In my experience, the better way to get decent performance is to have a really really fast connection between webserver and database, and some in-memory caching of the results of recently-used queries.

TWO

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 5:52 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
For anyone else interested in designing banners for FFF.NET 2.0, these are the specs:

1300x180 pixels
Should contain graphics related to Firefly.
"fireflyfans.net" wording on left side using papyrus font or something similar.
Credit yourself in smaller fonts at lower left[sic] RIGHT corner of banner. Use "banner by your_name/handle" or similar wording.

P.S. For those who missed the news, work on FFF.NET 2.0 ongoing. Here is the URL if you're interested in seeing how things are coming along.

http://beta.fireflyfans.net

The first banner is brand new. The next two are already used by http://beta.fireflyfans.net
The name of the model builder has been added in the lower right-hand corner. And the files are half the size of before.

Serenity by Simon “Digger2000” http://digger2000.deviantart.com/art/Serenity-106767557

Serenity, Big by Sean Patrick Kennedy Ser_big_3600x2450.jpg at www.seansgallery.com/newpics/

Serenity, Huge by Sean Patrick Kennedy serenityhuge2.jpg at www.seansgallery.com/newpics/

Serenity by Philip Boyes http://janjygiggins.deviantart.com/art/Serenity-Final-135787020

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

TWO

Monday, February 15, 2010 1:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
For anyone else interested in designing banners for FFF.NET 2.0, these are the specs:

1300x180 pixels
Should contain graphics related to Firefly.
"fireflyfans.net" wording on left side using papyrus font or something similar.
Credit yourself in smaller fonts at lower left[sic] RIGHT corner of banner. Use "banner by your_name/handle" or similar wording.

P.S. For those who missed the news, work on FFF.NET 2.0 ongoing. Here is the URL if you're interested in seeing how things are coming along.

http://beta.fireflyfans.net

Beta banner made from Kristèle Pelland's "Big Damn Heroes" http://kristele.deviantart.com/gallery/#Everything-Joss-Whedon

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

TRAVELER

Friday, February 19, 2010 2:24 AM

Will probably go into culture shock when this goes on line, but will recover. Looks great.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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