- Registered members no longer get the bottom banner.
- Unregistered visitors no longer get popups outside of the image pages.
- Added an ad zone to the front page for unregistered visitors.
- All pages that weren't actually reliant on loading or modifying local files on gm now load from g, which should improve the availability of these pages. This applies to codegen, hathperks, my settings, hentaiathome, report and home.
- Rewrote the internals on a number of the older sections to get them up to date and use a more reliable database engine.
Two new thumbnail servers have now gone live, replacing the four old ones that have been increasingly struggling with the load over the past few months. While you'd think that four servers > two servers, the new ones are equipped with Flash SSDs that according to my tests make them perform somewhere between 30x and 50x faster than the old servers for this particular task - the old ones would cap at around 80 requests a second, but the new ones don't even break a sweat at 500.
So, summa summarum, that means that we should finally be back to "blazing fast" for thumbnails, at least for the foreseeable future. Meaning that we're about where we were a year ago, but with a lot more traffic.
Note that depending on your ISP, your DNS records may not be updated just yet, but according to the traffic data I'm seeing most should be. You may also have to restart your browser to pull the new records, if your browser uses dumb TTL-ignoring DNS caching (notably Chrome).
In other news, you can now find E-Hentai on Twitter, for those small live updates and rambling thoughts I can never be bothered to write up a whole post for. I'll be tweeting them instead, at least until I grow bored of the concept, or I restart my browser and forget about it.
This update is mostly to finish the shift towards the HentaiVerse, as well as unlocking some stuff on the site that just didn't make sense to keep locked down, what with Galleries and all.
Generic Changes
- All archives are now available to everyone.
- All galleries are now available to everyone.
- Removed the skills "Extended Vision" and "Information Junkie". The functionality has been enabled for everyone.
- The Quickbrowse and Autobrowse functionality is now enabled through the Silver and Gold auras. It is no longer available through the skill tree. Note that everyone who already have Quickbrowse and/or Autobrowse from the skill tree gets to keep it.
The HentaiVerse
- Everyone have now been converted to use the HentaiVerse for training, auras, skill trees and so on. Note that people who aren't in the beta will still get the old type of random encounters, but you can sign up for the Arena and the Grindfest.
- Added a link in the sidebar to the HentaiVerse
- The user control panel now links to the HentaiVerse for the old categories.
15 hours ago: One of the primary web servers had crashed overnight, but should be back up and running now. Work continues on the crashed thumb server.
