AC Results / HMD

[lucetimods]

The results for the Activity Check are in. Please note that the following characters were either inactive, didn't post to the activity check, or failed to speak to a moderator about their activity. Also added were characters who have dropped recently, for your convenience.

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A number of you passed the activity check, but barely. (You know who you are.) Try to pick things up, as it's no fun to character-squat.

If there are any mistakes here, please let us know! Additionally, if your character was removed and you're still active, feel free to appeal to one of us about keeping your character. However, please remember next time to stay active and post to the Activity Check. Thank you!

And as always:

HMD

How's My Driving?

This is a crit post for both the community and game and for your characters. If you have something you'd like to see us improve upon with the game, PLEASE TELL US HERE! Anon commenting is on, but if anything gets really nasty there will be warnings and thread-freezing. This isn't required but everyone is encouraged to take advantage of the advice of your fellow players!

Just some pointers: no taking cheap shots, no dragging personal issues into things and for the love of all that is wise and great, please double check your replies and comments before posting them. Sometimes a change in phrasing can make all the difference between a helpful tone and a condescending one.

ALSO ALSO: We'd like to clarify that HMD means HMD- which means it's okay to have both good and bad crit. Some people have expressed concerns about posting good/bad crit when a character already has bad/good crit posted. We'd like to encourage you guys to do it anyway! You can drive well or badly, and even good drivers make mistakes. So give it a try \o

Comments

[all7seas]

I mentioned it on plurk to Emily but I thought I should mention it here as well: DW's last email (which, damn, I didn't save) said that really active posts that reach over 2500 comments affect the performance of the site. In other words, once a post gets over that many comments, it's taxing to their servers. A lot of our log posts and memes get larger than that so I was wondering if, to be Good Citizens of DW, we should have a policy to start new logs/posts when the current ones get too big.

THAT IS ALL CARRY ON.

ETA: I DO still have the email in Rapunzel's inbox! Here's the excerpt; I put the relevant passage in bold print. Love you guys:


State of the Servers


We've had some slowdowns in the evenings (US time) the last few days. This is related to our nightly maintenance and to the server load (it happens in the evenings because that's when a lot of our maintenance tasks run). [staff profile] mark and our backup sysadmin [personal profile] alierak are working on optimizing the servers, and we're starting in on some efforts to optimize the code. (And if you've got experience in optimizing web applications, we'd love to have you come and help! [staff profile] mark, who's our optimization guru, is being pulled in eight thousand different directions, and having a newborn around is not always conducive to hack time...)

Fixing this kind of problem takes a while: there are lots of little things we can do (and we're doing them) but load-related problems and optimization is a thousand-headed hydra. (Cut off one head and two grow back!) We'll stay on top of it, but if you notice 10-15 minutes of site slowness in the evenings, that's what's causing the problem.

Meanwhile, if you'd like to help out without knowing anything about code or optimization: one of our biggest load problems is entries that have a high number of comments -- loading those entries causes a big hit -- and we've been seeing an increase in the number of entries with lots of comments lately. If even a few high-traffic journals or communities started opening new posts when comments reached 2000 or 2500 instead of letting the post run until it hit the maximum number of comments, it would definitely help.

We're giving heavy attention to optimizing that particular use case, but depending on how the optimization work looks, we may have to tweak the number of comments an entry can receive downward temporarily. Keep an eye on [site community profile] dw_maintenance for more updates.

[all7seas]

Me too! And yes -- It's so awkward. And Hughes hasn't even swung into full Hughes-mode yet. WE CAN MAKE IT AWKWARD-ER.

[herotypical]

oh i know. i'm equally as glad -- it's gonna be a thing of beauty no matter how it goes. i am sorry for dropping that sledding thread...hopefully things'll settle down after this week and once i get back to halifax!

[herotypical]

buffy is such a brat; it's so easy to dislike her. and it always brings me joy when i've managed to adequately represent her more sympathetic qualities.

your tagging is lovely and don't you dare apologize. /hugs

and i just want to say here since i'm not running and commenting around -- your cordy is fantastic. really. i'm so grateful and i'm glad you've stuck with us! this cr fascinates me! keep on rocking in the free world!

[markofthebrave]

We can just say that Nothing of Importance Was Discussed and that they had a boss time sledding. \o/ Bonding via "wheeee!"

[herotypical]

thank you so much! it means a lot to hear that her voice is on track. and i just want to mention that jeb is adorable and i can't wait to thread more once things settle down!

Re: Gorse

[broji]

I just have one suggestion and this has absolutely nothing to do with characterization at all. (And you know I love you anyway, and I know IRL has been kinda insane lately for you, and there's the LJ > DW move to take into account as well, so don't freak out.)

My only piece of advice is to try not to drop threads so often? You know I and a lot of people are perfectly fine with backtagging into infinity, but it feels like I don't really have any legitimate CR with you because most every thread we've done has been cut off and dropped prematurely.

And that's pretty much all I've got. You do a great job with Noelle otherwise, and I know you do quite a bit of thinking about your characters' opinions and how they'd react in various situations.

[subsultive]

i haven't been in the mood to tag lately but i'll see what i can do!

Essem

[coolportaljumper]

I'll say this: It's been a long time since I've read One Piece regularly, and I haven't checked back since the Time Skip, but I can say from our (one) thread and some stalking that you have Luffy's voice pretty down pat. It's adorable and hilarious and mystifying and fun all at once. He can't be that easy to play either because he does have his complexities, but you seem like you'd be able to pull those off too.

Here's looking to future threading!

[rageface]

adkshfgiadsfhg thank you for saying that!

Re: Cherry

[canterlock]

Probably because I haven't managed to tag around very much with her yet, but yes! This needs to happen.

[markofthebrave]

I AM SO EXCITED THAT WE WILL ACTUALLY GET TO DO THIS.

Awesome making with the immediate plotting, Dynast \o/

[ignitethesky]

Roy Mustang | ignitethesky | FullMetal Alchemist

Super late, but between catching up on classwork, graduation prep, and a keyboard that was starting to give fits & died last night... yeah. Also aware of the epic slow, but I'm gonna try to do what I can to change that.

YAY OBLIGATORY USELESS COMMENTS!

[lostinmyway]

/SPITTAKE

[tenofspades]

The only character of yours I'm familiar with is GLaDOS, but oh my god you play her so flawlessly. You've got her voice down perfectly, and it's an absolute delight to read her interactions with other people. <3

Grune HIGH!! (...Sometimes she acts it.)

[lostinmyway]

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[statice]

The way I look at it, procrastination's not gonna get us anywhere, as well get things rolling! We shall make awesome things happen. o9

[crisisrain]

Ah! Thank you strange anon! <3

[crisisrain]

Once the game calms down a bit, I'll run it by the mods and see if we can have a player-plot go up about it!

[its_rose_damnit]

sgfjvhhcet omg what ffff thank you very much! I'm glad you think that!

Also we must remedy this lack of CR thing, oh yes. :|b

[tolivefortoday]

This isn't crit or anything, only a question! Though I do enjoy reading Jack's threads quite a bit.

Was Jack (and others?) the one who built the tree house village on the map? Yun's likely to stumble across it once Luceti thaws out and she sets off to explore the forest, so I'm curious about what and why it's there, what it looks like, and if it'd be okay for someone to find it at all.

[tolivefortoday]

if stalking is rude I am the rudest person ever

Thank you! I'm glad to hear that. \o/

[touchofrogue]

Aww, thank you very much! We'll have to work something out! If something doesn't come naturally, meeting-wise, we can always set up a log where they bump into each other or something! \o/

[trueknight]

I ... had some reasons for that, none of which had to do with anything solely RP-related. A combination of a lot of things, basically - one of those "I probably should've gone on hiatus" deals. But thanks for your concern ♥ Everything on my end should be straightened out by the end of the month.

[blessingone]

This comment makes me happy to an extent I don't know if I can properly express. Thank you very much! I am really glad and flattered that I am succeeding in doing so.