Nothing new in here

[the-mk]

Nothing changed in the key-counting forum...

OK, I'll give a little update:

Nothing new on Project Orca:
No news in their web-journal (http://www.battleaxe.net/archives/cat_project_orca.html), nothing new in the forum (http://project-orca.net/forum/): except users reclamation that there's no linux-client, recommendations to TKC (http://keycount.piqsoftware.com/), reclamations about cheaters, ... old things :D

I just try to overtake rshepard, but some times he types more than I do... we change ranks every now and then :D

News on TKC:
Official links on the server seem to be broken (every time a "Server is down for maintenance" message), but you can see our teampage with the direct link (http://keycount.piqsoftware.com/teams/details.php?team=Free-DC). I'm noticing long downloading times for the site in general. Seems to be too much users for that one tiny server :|punch|: if our official stats site (http://keycount.piqsoftware.com/teams/details.php?team=Free-DC) is too slow for you, you can try that one (http://stats.the-mk.dyndns.org/tkc/) (mine)

I'm trying to overtake that LA CHICA, but he/she's typing too fast for me :swear: but it's a fun competition...

Summary:
Nothing revolutionary new in the keycounting section... everybody types, clicks and scrolls and pulses that to the servers ;)

[the-mk]

Apoch, the TKC-Admin spoke some words in here (http://www.piqsoftware.com/dev/forums/viewthread.asp?id=464):


. . .
The simple fact is, we don't have the money to upgrade the server. We barely have the money to run it, and we are losing money every time one of our workers has to divert his time to working on TKC instead of our paying projects. TKC is a service to everyone, and we are getting nothing from it. I personally feel that it is a point of pride that our service has not stooped to begging for donations or selling advertisement space, and I will tell you now that I would go without a paycheck next month rather than undermine that.

There is no point to this discussion. TKC is running fine, the load is down a bit without the rankings chewing up time, and we still sign up an average of 5 users a day. As far as I'm concerned, TKC is a marvellous success, considering it was originally designed for around 150 users.


For some of us: that's the reason why teamrankings and the global userrankings are disabled.

:Pokes: IMHO I would turn of the web-APIs, they are costing a lot of bandwidth and cpu-ressources too. But nobody's asking me :cry: