TWiki.org Is A Terrible Advert

Performance

Much as we all love PatternSkin it isn't doing twiki.org any favours. twiki.org is a terrible advert for TWiki! The performance STINKS!! It just took me (wallclock) fifteen minutes to view changes, view a page, make a minor edit and save (no preview). This is not typical, I know, but imagine the impact on a newbie visiting the site!

For a long time now there has been discussion about moving twiki.org to a faster server. Have we given up on moving server? If not, what is the schedule?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 29 Aug 2004

I agree - but I'd attribute it to SourceForge being slow. It would be to nice to think that someone intends to do this. Is installation so hard that we can't manage it?

-- MartinCleaver - 29 Aug 2004

Crawford, agreed. With performance of the system deteriorating, the inefficiencies of PatternSkin, and the SourceForge server all conspiring together, we have a problem at our hands....

-- ThomasWeigert - 29 Aug 2004

Now that Cairo is out of the door, can we do something about this?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 02 Sep 2004

Front Page

When PatternSkin is applied to the TWiki home page (http://twiki.org) the "download" link disappears way down the bottom of the left bar.

This means that a new person coming and reading about TWiki and thinking "hey I want this" really has to search to find it.

Could do with a much more prominent "You Likeee? Get 'im Here...."

-- MartinGregory - 06 Sep 2004

I agree with Martin, some of the links that first time viewers will be interested in are buried at the bottom and the first link on the page is to Main.WebChanges which is probably the least useful link on the page. I don't view the front page very often; I tend to go straight to WebChangesForAllWebs with a plain skin. This would be a better link to include instead of all the web changes links. The whole site map section should be at the top (minus the Home non-link) and the remaining links from What's New merged with it.

-- SamHasler - 07 Sep 2004