Posted by Joe Johnson. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 1/19/2000 4:02 AM MST
Below is a table showing daily visits, pages visited and site hits for ChiefDelphi.com according to our web host’s tracking software:
Daily Totals for chiefdelphi.com
Date Visits Pages Hits
Sat Jan 8 2000 542 4909 6569
Sun Jan 9 2000 598 4672 6283
Mon Jan 10 2000 621 6854 9456
Tue Jan 11 2000 517 5548 7388
Wed Jan 12 2000 596 6339 8367
Thu Jan 13 2000 580 6164 8709
Fri Jan 14 2000 476 5212 8274
Sat Jan 15 2000 525 4521 6648
Sun Jan 16 2000 577 5514 7539
Mon Jan 17 2000 505 5304 6988
Tue Jan 18 2000 678 6063 8080
We are getting to be a real force for change and growth in the FIRST community.
The FIRST online community is growing and I think that it is about time!
Joe J.
Posted by Beccy Rigden (Duct Tape).
Student on team #166 from Merrimack High.
Posted on 1/19/2000 10:40 AM MST
In Reply to: Popularity of this site… posted by Joe Johnson on 1/19/2000 4:02 AM MST:
Wow! That is incredible! I never expected a web page to take off like that. My entire team knows about it that’s for sure.
Beccy
co-captain #166
Posted by Joshua Berthiaume.
Student on team #131, Chaos, from Manchester Central HS and Osram Sylvainia.
Posted on 1/19/2000 9:06 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: Popularity of this site… posted by Beccy Rigden (Duct Tape) on 1/19/2000 10:40 AM MST:
I know our team is on here all the time as well
Josh
Posted by Dodd Stacy.
Engineer on team #95, Lebanon Robotics Team, from Lebanon High School and CRREL/CREARE.
Posted on 1/19/2000 5:00 PM MST
In Reply to: Popularity of this site… posted by Joe Johnson on 1/19/2000 4:02 AM MST:
Joe,
The well-deserved popularity of this site is resulting in some rapidly expanding file lengths. Makes for some pretty slow downloads for those of us at the long end of skinny wires. What do you guys think of shortening the retention time before moving older posts on to the archives? Hate to complain, love the boards, really value the community. Thanks.
Dodd
Posted by Joe Johnson. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 1/19/2000 5:14 PM MST
In Reply to: Fat Files, Slow Downloads posted by Dodd Stacy on 1/19/2000 5:00 PM MST:
I guess that this is not hard to do. Brandon?
As for myself, I most never go to the main pages but work off the chronological archive (unthreaded).
It keeps me up to date with the latest postings without having to find what is new out of a long and sometimes complex threaded message. As a bonus, I don’t have to keep track of which board people are posting on. You all should try it.
Joe J.
Posted by Dodd Stacy.
Engineer on team #95, Lebanon Robotics Team, from Lebanon High School and CRREL/CREARE.
Posted on 1/20/2000 6:39 AM MST
In Reply to: Brandon? posted by Joe Johnson on 1/19/2000 5:14 PM MST:
: As for myself, I most never go to the main pages but work off the chronological archive (unthreaded).
: It keeps me up to date with the latest postings without having to find what is new out of a long and sometimes complex threaded message. As a bonus, I don’t have to keep track of which board people are posting on. You all should try it.
: Joe J.
Posted by Brandon Martus. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Other on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 1/19/2000 7:17 PM MST
In Reply to: Fat Files, Slow Downloads posted by Dodd Stacy on 1/19/2000 5:00 PM MST:
I admit when i made the auto-archive portion of the site, i didn’t take into effect the year. So when it hit January, it didn’t know that December 1999 was before January 2000. (years weren’t in the calculations).
So as a result, i’ve been manually deleting the 20-day old messages. I’ve fallen behind, and will clean it up a bit tonight.
What are your guys’ thoughts… how many days should we leave the messages on the actual forum pages ??
It’s at 20 days right now.
Posted by Joe Johnson. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 1/19/2000 8:26 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: Fat Files, Slow Downloads posted by Brandon Martus on 1/19/2000 7:17 PM MST:
Brandon,
I am shocked, shocked to learn that in the 1000’s of lines of code you have written to automate this whole shootin’ match that you still have BUGS.
Ah well, perhaps you are mortal after all 
Joe J.
P.S. I think 14 days is plenty (2 weeks in 1/3 of this whole FIRST thing)
Posted by Brandon Martus. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Other on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 1/19/2000 8:32 PM MST
In Reply to: Hmm… A Y-ALWAYS Bug??? posted by Joe Johnson on 1/19/2000 8:26 PM MST:
{{cough}}nobody saw the y2k bug{{cough}}
19100… 2000 — Whats the difference 
: Brandon,
: I am shocked, shocked to learn that in the 1000’s of lines of code you have written to automate this whole shootin’ match that you still have BUGS.
: Ah well, perhaps you are mortal after all
: Joe J.
: P.S. I think 14 days is plenty (2 weeks in 1/3 of this whole FIRST thing)
Posted by Jerry Eckert.
Engineer from Looking for a team in Raleigh, NC sponsored by .
Posted on 1/19/2000 8:49 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: Hmm… A Y-ALWAYS Bug??? posted by Brandon Martus on 1/19/2000 8:32 PM MST:
: {{cough}}nobody saw the y2k bug{{cough}}
:
: 19100… 2000 — Whats the difference
At least it wasn’t 199A.
Posted by Brandon Martus. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Other on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 1/20/2000 2:13 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: Hmm… A Y-ALWAYS Bug??? posted by Jerry Eckert on 1/19/2000 8:49 PM MST:
Yep. I didn’t feel so bad, after i saw a 01/01/19100 on a few ‘big-name’ websites.
: : {{cough}}nobody saw the y2k bug{{cough}}
: :
: : 19100… 2000 — Whats the difference
: At least it wasn’t 199A.
Posted by Brandon Martus. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Other on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 1/19/2000 8:58 PM MST
In Reply to: Fat Files, Slow Downloads posted by Dodd Stacy on 1/19/2000 5:00 PM MST:
The page has a meta-refresh setting which tells the browser not to use your cached version of ‘general.html’ ‘rumor.html’ and ‘tech.html’
The 3 forum pages are retrieved from the server each time you access it.
This may also slow you down just a little, but it ensures that you have the newest posts.
Posted by Eric Rasmussen.
Engineer from FIRST.
Posted on 1/19/2000 10:10 PM MST
In Reply to: Reason #2 for slow download posted by Brandon Martus on 1/19/2000 8:58 PM MST:
: The page has a meta-refresh setting which tells the browser not to use your cached version of ‘general.html’ ‘rumor.html’ and ‘tech.html’
: The 3 forum pages are retrieved from the server each time you access it.
: This may also slow you down just a little, but it ensures that you have the newest posts.
Actually, I would love it if you could change this. Even on the T1 that we have at FIRST, it seems slow to update the General Forum list right now. I suspect that it’s a combination of the server and daytime congestion between here and there, but it’s even worse on a modem. Perhaps you could set a 15 minute expiration, so that you could flip back and forth many times before it refreshes.
-Eric
Posted by Frank Toussaint. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Wheeling and Rolling Meadows and Motorola .
Posted on 1/20/2000 11:59 AM MST
In Reply to: Re: Reason #2 for slow download posted by Eric Rasmussen on 1/19/2000 10:10 PM MST:
Great web site! I come here every day.
And I agree with Eric. Make it fifteen minutes; I’ll browse the page then hit ‘Reload’ to make sure I have the latest postings.
Posted by Brandon Martus. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Other on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 1/20/2000 1:44 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: Reason #2 for slow download posted by Eric Rasmussen on 1/19/2000 10:10 PM MST:
[no message]
: : The page has a meta-refresh setting which tells the browser not to use your cached version of ‘general.html’ ‘rumor.html’ and ‘tech.html’
: : The 3 forum pages are retrieved from the server each time you access it.
: : This may also slow you down just a little, but it ensures that you have the newest posts.
: Actually, I would love it if you could change this. Even on the T1 that we have at FIRST, it seems slow to update the General Forum list right now. I suspect that it’s a combination of the server and daytime congestion between here and there, but it’s even worse on a modem. Perhaps you could set a 15 minute expiration, so that you could flip back and forth many times before it refreshes.
: -Eric
Posted by Eric Rasmussen.
Engineer from FIRST.
Posted on 1/20/2000 9:52 PM MST
In Reply to: fixed: remember to hit refresh for newest messages [EOM] posted by Brandon Martus on 1/20/2000 1:44 PM MST:
Thank you, it’s much faster now! Woo Hoo!
-Eric
Posted by Justin.
Other on team Blue Lightning Alum from RWU sponsored by FIRST-A-holics Anonymous.
Posted on 1/19/2000 5:13 PM MST
In Reply to: Popularity of this site… posted by Joe Johnson on 1/19/2000 4:02 AM MST:
I’ve always considered the forums a major part of FIRST and helping its expansion. The opprotunity for dialouge among everyone in FIRST that the provide hasn’t been matched by anyother site I’ve seen. You guys do a good job keeping them up and going.
I also thought it very cool that FIRST actually refered a team to the forums is on of the update 3 questions.
Way to go Delphi,
Justin