Downtime and some temporarily disabled pages
Some of you may have noticed that MyTVShows was down for most of the weekend. We had to do some maintenance to try and speed up the pages and to optimize our database (which can take a very long time).
After a few days of optimization (those scripts really take a long time) we noticed that the database was running a lot faster
However, we noticed that in some pages it still took a long time to load (and they slowed down the whole site for all users). So, in order to keep the website running smoothly, we decided to temporarily disable the following pages:
- New/Upcoming episodes: to check for new and/or upcoming episodes, please check them individualy for each show (you can see the upcoming episodes on the main show page and the new episodes on the season page, right after the episodes you already have);
- Timelines: we disabled the global timeline, the friends timeline and your timeline;
As you may now, we are working on a complete redesign of MyTVShows. Until we have the new version ready, these pages will stay disabled.
In the new version, the new episodes will be automatically added to your library, so we won’t be needing the new episodes page
Autoadding new episodes is the way to go, the current method was weird indeed.
See, the ‘how will we get new episodes’ was my question, but then you answered it, so… uh… hmm… why am I still typing.
Y’all rock, even if I did have some serious withdrawal this weekend, it was for a good cause