vocabulary

michele
April 29, 2007, 07:12 AM posted in General Discussion

大家好!

 

from a couple of days the link to "vocabulary" section seems it dosn't work...

Anybody else found the same problem? 

 

谢谢, michele 

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kencarroll
April 30, 2007, 12:52 AM

john p might have something to say on this.

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bazza
April 30, 2007, 05:58 AM

Seems to work ok for me.

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michele
April 30, 2007, 10:29 AM

hi ken, hi bazza, thank for your attention! yesterday the link was working, even though clearly slower than all the other links do, and today too is working but very slow. It seems to me that some day ago was working properly, but I'm not completely sure of it. The fact is that I have not an ADSL connection (!!) and is not coming soon here...beautiful country, wonderful living in the 最有名的 countryside of Tuscany, landscapes, woods, sunshine, good wine "eccetera..eccetera.." but the internet... stay happy in China! But when I was in 上海 in the 2003 it was not very fast too there! I rember very well the sad, slow blinking of the little green screens in the right corner of the PC.... Anyhow, I've just tried now: the vocabulary works, but very slow, where all the other links are OK. 谢谢,再见! michele

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bazza
April 30, 2007, 10:39 AM

michele, I think it's speed depends on how many entries you have in your vocab list.

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michele
April 30, 2007, 10:56 AM

bazza, do you think it's normal having such a slowdown with very few items I think, (there are only 124 now)? I've just added less than 10 vocab, and I was trying to reach the last page (the7th) to tag them, but it was quite impossible..it seems a little strange to me such a ...lazy-link.. ciao michele

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brian
April 30, 2007, 11:47 AM

The vocabulary pages are also crawling for me today. Rest of the site is working fine. This is with a high speed connection in Shenzhen.

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davidhallgren
April 30, 2007, 02:49 PM

I agree, mine is also impossible to reach. I get "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." every time. In my case it could be due to the amount of vocab, since I like to use the vocab as a repository of more or less all the words I feel I can read and understand, I currently have 900+ words in there. But still, it shouldn't be a problem with a good database and well designed code for the vocab list. I totally understand that they haven't had time to optimize V3 yet, but I hope words banks of this size won't be a problem once they have.

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brendan
April 30, 2007, 10:38 PM

I have had similar experiences with my meager vocab of a little over 300. I also agree that it is just this area of the site that is too slow. I've sent a longish email to the bugs email address, 'cos from the outside it looks like the use of the database is far from optimal. Seems to be making a lot of lookups that are neither needed immediately, nor cached for later pagination. Though I also wonder if the sound files are being loaded before they're needed. It certainly need a spanner taken to it as it stands.