This is a place for me ( rei ), the head developer of ACDB to write unfiltered about what goes on behind the scenes at ACDB.
Although, all members can write and post their own news.
My posts though, will always be highly technical and mostly incomprehensible to all but the most esoteric of nerds.
It's been a crazy start to 2018 for me.
Letting bots index our language mirrors, plus allowing other hostnames, in an era when there are more bots than ever, crawling HTTP, HTTPS, mobile and non-mobile - lead to a massive sustained DDoS on the site.
I keep learning and adapting - hopefully the results are felt in a more responsive site!
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I've decided to
reorder characters in search results based on
number of suitors. Previously we used a combination of love and favorites.
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For a very long time I had been wanting to make a mobile friendly version of Smash or Pass.
Well, I finally did it!You can swipe left to pass, right to smash. And it even keeps a counter for the life of your cookie.
Probably be nice to add in filter by trait, filter by list options next.
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We're still having trouble finding reliable ad revenue. Companies I used to work with pay next to nothing, new companies pay even less.
Donations and patreon pledges are becoming crucial to our survival.
We're off to an interesting start this year, with high traffic knocking one of our servers offline twice this week!
It is possible you may see:
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Try again in a moment!
Over 12 hours, only 2 requests met the criteria I set to trigger this - so hopefully it will be a pretty rare occurrence.
I'm also looking into doing another round of optimizing / rolling back inefficient queries.