Testing the Fastly CDN

[mark]

Hi all,

This has now been rolled back. It's not working for some subset of users and that is problematic. We are back to how we were earlier!

I've now rolled out a small change that sends a lot of static traffic through Fastly, an interesting CDN service founded by a guy who I used to work with on LiveJournal. It's a neat service that should give us some really good performance gains -- particularly for users who aren't near our main servers in Dallas.

Edit: If you are using something like NoScript or a similar service that whitelists URLs, you will need to add the following domain:

s.dreamwidth.org.a.prod.fastly.net

Many of you noticed that there was about 15 minutes of broken JavaScript on the site. This showed up as cut tags not expanding, the login form not working, and some other weird behaviors. It's fixed now and was caused by me making a typo in the configuration. Sorry about that.

Please let me know if anything else is broken or not working. Also, if the site seems faster, I'd love to know that too. I'm sure crucially would be interested to hear our opinions of it. :)

Comments

[eyesofstrength]

Still have a lot not working for me. Basically no hover menu when hovering a username or icon. Still have a lot of wonkiness when trying to comment and no icon browser.

Definitely have refreshed the page and still the same thing.

Edit: Never mind, I'm a moron and the below commenter made me realize I needed to allow it in NoScript.

[jumpuphigh]

I'm so glad that you let us know about this. I have NoScript and Fastly was blocked automatically which meant that I couldn't select any of the messages in my inbox for deletion. I allowed the script and things do seem to be moving faster.

[archersangel]

my post page (or whatever it's called) is broke. i don't have any icons in rich text mode.

[wikiaddicted723]

Mine isn't working either.

[mark]

Can you shift-refresh? And also, do you use NoScript or another kind of addon/plugin that restricts content you see?

[mark]

Can you shift-refresh? And also, do you use NoScript or another kind of addon/plugin that restricts content you see?

[necrogenius]

The site does seem faster, but I'm experiencing a few things as a result:

+ Browse Icon button does not work
+ "Expand" button when clicked functions the same as "Link"
+ All replies do not just pop up underneath the previous comment--it goes to the actual "reply" screen
+ No hover on main menu bar

That's what I've gotten so far.

[mark]

By "no hover" do you mean on the main web site's menu? When you hover over an item, it drops down?

[archersangel]

i've allowed everything for no-script. i'm not sure what shift-refresh is, but i've reloaded the page several times.

[kikiduck]

My post an entry page is also wonky. I can post as HTML now, but rich text is still broken. There's no toolbar, and I can't type in the entry box (but I can type in the subject field.) Same thing happens in Firefox and Chrome.

Shift-refresh and disabling ad-blocker didn't change anything.

[redsixwing]

I'm having the same trouble - in fact, now my Rich Text and HTML tabs are gone completely.

I'm using Firefox+Noscript with fastly.net enabled, I have hard refreshed and closed/reopened my browser with no changes.

[jumpuphigh]

You aren't a moron! It took me a bit of mental cussing before I realized what was going on.

Posting interface is wonky

[writerlibrarian]

My post interface is broken. I've logged out, logged in again. I am not using a no script.

I can't access either the rich text space or the html space. The rich text space doesn't have any menu. I've also tried to edit an entry no dice. Same problem.

[necrogenius]

The main websites menu--but it seems to be working now.

Re: Posting interface is wonky

[remiel]

I am having this issue as well.

[ysilme]

I have to join those who can't write new posts either. I'm using Firefox 10.0.2 on WinXP pro (with all Service packs and updates), not using NoScript and otherwise restricting Plugins. It's also not working with all Addons deactivated, nor on other browsers where I don't use any (Seamonkey current version, IE7). I've also restarted my machine to be sure.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by shift-refresh, but if it's refreshing the browser page with STRG+R or STRG+SHIFT+R, it's not working.

When I hit "post", I can fill any line or choose any drop-down menu, but the main text window just shows "Rich text" without any buttons, and no text can be entered. When I click on "HTML", I get the info "javascript:void(0);"

[inthetatras]

Recently the Expand All function was not working for me, and yesterday DW kept logging me out of DW despite LJ Login still having me nicked to the journal I had last been nicked to. Were either of these due to the typo?

[mark]

Expand all was broken for ~15 minutes earlier. Nothing should have changed yesterday.

[mark]

It's reverted. Try now?

Re: Posting interface is wonky

[mark]

It's reverted. Try now?

[mark]

It's reverted. Try now?

[eyesofstrength]

Hey, I was glad for your comment because that made me realize, oh yeah, I should check that!

[wikiaddicted723]

thanks mark, it's working now (after Shift+F5)

[kikiduck]

Yup, working now!

Re: Posting interface is wonky

[writerlibrarian]

The interface is back to normal.
Thanks