Hi Tigerdillians;

You’ll probably notice the new chat, and you’ll probably notice it’s not in beta any more. This isn’t because it’s perfect; I’m still working on it. However, the old chat has to go.

Over the past day or so, the site had been getting notably slower. I discovered that the way the old chat was operating, some people’s web browsers were going nuts and hammering the site to death. The old chat was really hard on both the web server and the database, and it’s the weakest part of the site’s infrastructure.

We, basically, had some number of folks (an exact number is difficult to obtain) who’s web browsers are hitting the chat server constantly without the pause the javascript is supposed to enforce. I’m guessing this is some kind of browser bug and not a malicious attack, but who knows.

As such, this constant flood of requests is making lag for everyone and basically using the machine resources up.

I’ve set up an IP block to try and detect these people and reject their connections. It’s helping a bit, but there’s still more to do and I’m working on it.

If you find yourself unable to connect to the Tigerdile website, please contact support AT tigerdile DOT com and provide your IP address. You can get that at http://www.whatismyip.com