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[Daniel J. Cody]

Kingorbitao at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 8/21/00 9:08:00 AM Central Daylight Time, gsd at mac.com
> writes:
> 
> << I think we're doing pretty well now without extensive moderation methods.
>  Evolt has a balance that ti might not be wise to play with. >>
> 
> Ah, yes. But right now, we haven't barely been affected by the all-mighty
> crippling "Slashdot-effect".

True. Thats not to say we don't get a good amount of traffic though..
Even slashdot itself can't handle the amount of traffic it gets at times
though :)

If we got /.'d today would you be able to get to the evolt site? Sure.
Would it be slow as shit? Sure. Would it still be up and running though?
Sure. :)

Also(in the much talked about, finally getting there stage) in evolt2.0
we're addressing alot of the scalability issues of the website.. It was
more or less 'slapped' together just over a year ago and is pretty
inefficient in a lot of places(select * from content; ? ouch!).. Jeff,
myself, rudy, adrian, iSac and a host of others are all working on
making it slash-proof, more or less :)

We're also addressing the moderation issue with ratings for articles and
some other Cool Things. Thelist will *never* be moderated. The website
will be moderated to a point. The moderation comes more from here though
than it does from any one or two or three people.

.djc.