Michael,

I am happy to let you know that there seems to be a noticeable improvement in general and a substantial one at the Wifi locations with poor Internet service. In a world where moments can mean the difference toward a major contributor for gamedev future or such person going elsewhere, this is important. I actually abandoned a website recently where I wanted to be involved but the loading was terrible through some Wifi locations, often page loading failure while other websites were tolerable. The gamedev website now has a competitive load time compared with all other websites, previously the worst by far and sometimes would not load at all - now quite good!

For myself and on behalf of thousands of gamedev viewers in the future, thank you! It is like a well lubricated machine now!


Clinton

Michael has been working on this, for reference my full (uncached) load times of the home page are about 30% to 40% faster, though it remains highly variable.

Michael,

I have a special request: May we have any window notifications which appear from the website stay a few moments longer before disappearing? Often I get such a window but I am very focused on something important at the moment so I can not look immediately. By the time I find an opening to look and read the notification, it is usually gone or in the process of disappearing. I feel that a few moments longer to linger on the screen would avoid some disappointment by members of gamedev. "Hey! I didn't have a chance to read that and it is gone!" - kind of thing.

Speaking to the leadership in general here, if you want to achieve true excellence at gamedev, then I am one of those who will hold you to it.


Clinton