CFC Website

[Andy Shaw]

The CFC website is always lagging, crashing, and slow.

Also, on my iPhone, I was and am never able to access the ratings/crosstable.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: CFC Website

get a better phone, a real phone.

[Andy Shaw]

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get a better phone, a real phone.

1) Boss pays for my work phone which is an iPhone.

2) What do you recommend then? I have both a business and personal cellphone.

[Vlad Drkulec]

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The CFC website is always lagging, crashing, and slow.

Also, on my iPhone, I was and am never able to access the ratings/crosstable.

I have noticed that it is often slow even when you access it on a computer though I haven't had trouble accessing ratings or crosstables. We have discussed moving the website to the same server that we host our forums on though there may be some technical issues that still have to be resolved. It just took me about five seconds to get my rating page which seems acceptable.

[John Coleman]

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In addition to being slow, the website is ugly and infrequently updated (except for ratings). The $18,000 spent in 2009-10 may have produced a state-of-the-art website then, but now it looks pretty woeful.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

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1) Boss pays for my work phone which is an iPhone.

2) What do you recommend then? I have both a business and personal cellphone.

Use a tool designed for the task. chess.ca is not great with mobile applications. Look for "View Full Site".

[Gary Ruben]

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In addition to being slow, the website is ugly and infrequently updated (except for ratings). The $18,000 spent in 2009-10 may have produced a state-of-the-art website then, but now it looks pretty woeful.

It's hard to argue with that opinion. I was never a fan of that new website.

[Roger Patterson]

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I have noticed that it is often slow even when you access it on a computer though I haven't had trouble accessing ratings or crosstables. We have discussed moving the website to the same server that we host our forums on though there may be some technical issues that still have to be resolved. It just took me about five seconds to get my rating page which seems acceptable.

you got it at a good time. Last night I was trying to download the mde file and it was taking well over a minute. As I don't know the precise url, I had to 1) go to the main webpage (wait a minute plus), 2) find the menu for the rating software page (wait a minute plus), 3) download the mde file (wait a minute plus). AAAAARGH

That's a long way from being acceptable.

[Kerry Liles]

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I have noticed that it is often slow even when you access it on a computer though I haven't had trouble accessing ratings or crosstables. We have discussed moving the website to the same server that we host our forums on though there may be some technical issues that still have to be resolved. It just took me about five seconds to get my rating page which seems acceptable.

As they say, your mileage may vary. This morning (EST) the website was completely unusable - in fact, it was declared down by the following test site:

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.chess.ca

I left a tab in Chrome running against it and after about 15 minutes, *some* of the content had appeared...

Too bad the cost of the web site redesign didn't take into account the necessity of maintaining it - even the picture on the main page are hopelessly out of date. When there are OBVIOUS bits of stale information presented immediately on the main page, it is very obvious no maintenance is happening. Believe me, I know that maintaining even a fairly simple web site can be a time sink, but this is something that has to be a high priority - it affects potential sponsorship, membership and if it is badly maintained it can have a negative effect on current membership. The forums more or less take care of themselves (aside from some mild moderation that is needed - most of the chess forum traffic is at ChessTalk anyway). Perhaps the online magazine and the website should be under the same operation?

[Felix Nemenyi]

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In addition to being slow, the website is ugly and infrequently updated (except for ratings). The $18,000 spent in 2009-10 may have produced a state-of-the-art website then, but now it looks pretty woeful.

18000! what waste. i you find chinese or russian who it do for 80. still better current

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

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Believe me, I know that maintaining even a fairly simple web site can be a time sink

As I understand chess.ca is based on drupal. It is not a simple CMS (content management system). When I want to add something to torontochess.org (same drupal), my work begins and ends with all kind of updates/upgrades and spam cleaning :/

imho, it was not great to split the news section into a sub-page. It would have been much better to incorporate into the main page + add new threads/blogs from the forum.

[Gary Ruben]

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As I understand chess.ca is based on drupal. It is not a simple CMS (content management system).

I thought Drupal was used for "fast and cheap".

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

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I thought Drupal was used for "fast and cheap".

It can after all updates and upgrades.

[James Williamson]

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You need to go to an Apple store.
They will show you how to
access.:)

[John Upper]

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I have noticed that it is often slow even when you access it on a computer

Bob tells me that the company (sometimes?) does work on the site late at night, which would explain why it is sometimes VERY slow when I try to use it between 1 and 3 am EST.
Most of the rest of the time is works OK on my computer.