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cobraboy said:
Thank you for the edit feature.

Is it time-limited as before?
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It's not supposed to be time-limited. I set all the member groups to unlimited. There are still posts showing up in moderated which should not be. I need to dig into the config and see what's going on with that.


Is the site loading ok? It seems slow this evening. Server is not overloaded. It's possibly Altice or an internet backbone problem.

From Santo Domingo
PING dr1.com (151.139.128.10): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 151.139.128.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=500.543 ms
64 bytes from 151.139.128.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=500.143 ms
64 bytes from 151.139.128.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=555.435 ms
64 bytes from 151.139.128.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=502.707 ms
64 bytes from 151.139.128.10: icmp_seq=6 ttl=51 time=491.292 ms

500 is pretty darn slow. That's almost like dial-up internet :)


From San Jose California:

PING dr1.com (151.139.128.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 151.139.128.10 (151.139.128.10): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=12.0 ms
64 bytes from 151.139.128.10 (151.139.128.10): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=12.0 ms
64 bytes from 151.139.128.10 (151.139.128.10): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=12.0 ms

12 ms is pretty darn fast.


traceroute from Santo Domingo..

% traceroute dr1.com
traceroute to dr1.com (151.139.128.10), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 2.014 ms 1.203 ms 1.026 ms
2 * * *
3 172.17.116.213 (172.17.116.213) 18.401 ms 33.190 ms 15.608 ms
4 172.17.255.30 (172.17.255.30) 44.479 ms 52.413 ms 41.975 ms
5 190.124.64.226 (190.124.64.226) 67.552 ms 55.904 ms 81.277 ms
6 193.251.243.196 (193.251.243.196) 473.767 ms 481.694 ms *
7 193.251.131.222 (193.251.131.222) 525.741 ms * 564.281 ms


inetnum: 193.251.240.0 - 193.251.255.59
netname: OPENTRANSIT-BACKBONE
descr: Orange - OINIS
descr: 61, rue des Archives, 75003 Paris
country: FR

looks like a backbone problem.. hopefully we won't get cut off from the world :)
 
cobraboy

cobraboy

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I separate the forum from the rest of the site.

The forum is fine. Few small negatives, more positives. All-in-all, once the bugs got worked out, really nice. One additional feature I like is the little button at the very bottom left which allows the user to toggle to full screen. Nice.

But IMO the rest of the site missed a huge opportunity, starting with the home page.

The DR is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. The home screen, and all the non-forum areas, in no way reflect the beauty. I was hoping for a more visual presentation of the DR, but got Web 2.0 bland and boring instead. Maybe that's what the PoohBahs wanted. If so, they got what they asked for.

It looks like it was built for speed and SEO, and not to attract eyeballs to the REAL reason we are all here, and why tourists should visit. While speed is important, content is even more important, and I don't mean written content.

I would prefer a newspaper-type website with HD (but optimized) images and videos, with an attached forum.

Words may affect the mind, but images evoke the emotions.

For example, if you removed the two small and relatively hidden references to the "Dominican Republic", would a first-time visitor even know what the website was about? Images tell the story and keep the average web-surfer interested. All words cause a quick exit.

Net-net: Forum is an upgrade, the rest of the website is a downgrade. I suspect there will be challenges in trying to monetize DR1 if that was a criteria.
 
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