Staff thread. Ask. Suggest. Get info.

We learned that our server has responded a bit slow lately. Would be grateful if anyone from the US could tell me, how does the site perform speed-wise?

Our extremely helpful hosting partners, worked on the server recently so you should notice that the site is performing much faster.

We will continue to work on this matter. Let us know, how the server responds to you and how often do notice slow load times?

@Pucalona Please read the help section again. All the information you're looking for is there!

On top of that, our community members can also help you, but you should describe your problem in more detail.

What is the URL you're trying to post? Is it an image or a video? If it's an image make sure it ends with commonly used extension (jpg, png etc). If it's a video make sure the video is included in our list of supported players.

Hey im new and i want to know how to ask a question. I looked on the help section but I still cant find out how
Thanks!@Operator

You have to paste the link of the image or video you want to ask about in the box on the top of this webstie (where it says Paste the URL of a photo, video orjust type in your question here).

Hey im new and i want to know how to ask a question. I looked on the help section but I still cant find out how
Thanks!

@Operator
Yeah, everything looks fine to me at the moment.

Actually, I'm just learning japanese (kanji/hiragana/katakana) so, I'm afraid that I can't help ya with that.

@DefaultUser can you give me a link to some kanji containing posts/comments? I did some optimization on the database class. I thought, that my tests worked out good. But I only used Russian and Swedish lettering.
Also, do you personally understand han characters? If so, could you bookmark them somehow. Or flag them. So when we will convert to the new system, we can ask your help. As UTF-8 supports everything today, then the database systems and the transition to our site, is still trickery and relies on one line of code. That I really want to optimize out. Anyways currently I put everything back, so check the old posts and the new ones.

Looks like there is some problems with kanji. Only in old threads though.
http://i.imgur.com/dUKyPEA.png

even me got notifications (4, if didn't showed more...)

@Uromyias_agilis well the load was even worse, I gave it all I got, to make it faster. And for us, it is a bit faster. But when the heavy rush-hour traffic hits, then site is slow.. Nothing to do about it. We are working on our new system ideas and planning on getting better servers and CDN. Then we will be globally fast. But all those upgrades have big hits on our traffic. So its a bit complicated :(

So its been almost 24h since our upgrades. Does the site feel faster in any way?

So the upgrading is over for today. Hope things are working faster now. Let me know, if there are any issues. We did alot of stuff to most of the major systems, that are running this site.. So we would expect some issues, but currently, it seems that all is good.

Also, the notification system had a small bug, so it is fixed now, and you should be able to enjoy it to the fullest :)

@potro

She didn't mean robot literally, but more like a super-human, because how good you are at solving questions. :)

And basically, yes. You don't have to confirm a "bad" quality answer, if you are going to post a much better answer later. Because our moderators will mark your answer as the correct one anyways.

Hope I was clear enough, let me know if you have anymore questions.

@Queen I don't speaking english very well, i am from Argentina and i amn't a robot.
you tell me no confirm if i answer well ? I not understand very things of this site for the idiom

Me decís que no confirme una respuesta anterior, si la voy a responder bien después?

This is just a heads up to everyone.

We are currently doing some maintenance work on the site to improve performance. If you run into any errors, please let us know here.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

@Queen The answer it's exactly the same that I tried each time since the first one. It's not the first time that I have an error when I click on Submit button so, I'm used to copy every answer before I sent it.

Also as a general note to everybody.

The answer, that finally gets marked correct - should be the Best Answer rather than the first one. Side note, we are thinking about ways to share points between all contributors, so question could be answered "collectively" meaning possibly separate points for name/scene and media.

When you are confirming. Keep in mind that you are "vouching" for that answer. So try to confirm the best possible answer. For example, try not to confirm answers that may have the correct name, if the OP is looking for the video.

And also a big THANK YOU to all NTP Contributors! You guys are absolutely essential to the continued growth of this site!

@potro I know you're a gentleman. But may I please ask you to stop confirming the answers before you, where the details are missing. Like name-tags. Because we will accept your comment anyways, because its formatted correctly. PS: Are you a robot? We have soon have to get more people, just to review your comments ^^

And guys, if you get this type of errors:
http://i62.tinypic.com/2q0krh3.jpg

Then either uservoice us, post it here or flag it. Of course, if it is case like this, then flagging it with the url, to such image, would be nice. As some videos may work for others and vice versa.

@T0rtilla it most likely is our spam protection, we have blocked off some spam sites, where the owners came, made a post and answered it right away. Did you use exactly the same content, as you got there now? Or was the original comment with some other link? Can you tell me what link it was, using spaces, so the detector wouldn't pick it up?