I have seen a few people griping about issues on BDSMLR from time to time. Even though at the TOP OF THE PAGE they have continual updates to let you know whats happening.
Still, some seem confused. So let me show it to you in a simple graph.
See that photo above, that is the website ranking for BDSMLR.COM over the past year. You see how it was around 600,000th at the start of December? It NOW ranks 61,164th, and is still rising.
Essentially, to laymen terms it, thats the equivalent if probably 200-400X of a traffic increase in that time. No site could ever take on that increase, and not have hiccups along the way. Their servers were never expecting this influx, this quickly. imagine owning/working at a little brick & mortar store, and you eeked out a decent flow of traffic, just enough to keep you busy, but not so much you ever felt overwhelmed..... then one day, the big giant supermarket closes, and suddenly you are the best option for everyone, and your business balloons to far beyond your best hopes. You need to start hiring new staff, expanding your store size, and ordering more inventory. That just doesnt happen over night. Its sort of the same for this site. They are the little mom & pop store thats suddenly become the go to place for everyone in town after the mega store closed.
There will probably be more hiccups till the traffic level evens out more, probably mid-late January, as people from Tumblr, who dont check very frequently, and especially over the holidays, and come back to empty pages in January flock here.
I for one, have been thankful at how communicative BDSMLR has been about the issues they are having. Am I frustrated? Yep. But at least they are keeping us informed as much as they can. That is far more than many other groups/sites I have been to in the past & present.
You are allowed to be frustrated. But just know, things could be far worse. At least they are trying to manage the influx.
Anywho.... TLDR version - BDSMLR has increased 200+ times its expected traffic thresholds in 2 weeks, and it takes some time to get caught up. Calm the fuck down, and accept that for a little while, there will be little delays/frustrations, and thats STILL better than Tumblr.... who didnt want us there.
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WHY BDSMLR KEEPS LAGGING?
I have seen a few people griping about issues on BDSMLR from time to time. Even though at the TOP OF THE PAGE they have continual updates to let you know whats happening.
Still, some seem confused. So let me show it to you in a simple graph.
See that photo above, that is the website ranking for BDSMLR.COM over the past year. You see how it was around 600,000th at the start of December?
It NOW ranks 61,164th, and is still rising.
Essentially, to laymen terms it, thats the equivalent if probably 200-400X of a traffic increase in that time. No site could ever take on that increase, and not have hiccups along the way. Their servers were never expecting this influx, this quickly. imagine owning/working at a little brick & mortar store, and you eeked out a decent flow of traffic, just enough to keep you busy, but not so much you ever felt overwhelmed..... then one day, the big giant supermarket closes, and suddenly you are the best option for everyone, and your business balloons to far beyond your best hopes. You need to start hiring new staff, expanding your store size, and ordering more inventory. That just doesnt happen over night. Its sort of the same for this site. They are the little mom & pop store thats suddenly become the go to place for everyone in town after the mega store closed.
There will probably be more hiccups till the traffic level evens out more, probably mid-late January, as people from Tumblr, who dont check very frequently, and especially over the holidays, and come back to empty pages in January flock here.
I for one, have been thankful at how communicative BDSMLR has been about the issues they are having. Am I frustrated? Yep. But at least they are keeping us informed as much as they can. That is far more than many other groups/sites I have been to in the past & present.
You are allowed to be frustrated. But just know, things could be far worse. At least they are trying to manage the influx.
Anywho.... TLDR version - BDSMLR has increased 200+ times its expected traffic thresholds in 2 weeks, and it takes some time to get caught up. Calm the fuck down, and accept that for a little while, there will be little delays/frustrations, and thats STILL better than Tumblr.... who didnt want us there.