ASCIImator: Online ASCII Animator

Re:ASCIImator: Online ASCII Animator by asiekierka on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:36AM (#11296045)

Hello! I am actually the maintainer of the site, and an active user back in its heyday. It is largely kept in maintenance mode, as the codebase is reminiscent of the year 2006 (as was passed on to me from the creators - if not for a rewrite to use JSON for ASCIImations, it would probably still run fine on IE6...) and I do not have enough time to give it a proper cleanup.

The site is back up, and I'll try to ensure that for the near future - the VPS it's on is fairly low-end.

Note: I am aware that the main page is by far the slowest part of the website.

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Re:ASCIImator: Online ASCII Animator by WillKirkby on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:48AM (#11296831)

Asie! Wow, it's been a while. Hard to believe it's been over nine years since I first signed up. A lovely little nostalgia trip for a lunch break. ~origamiguy

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Re:ASCIImator: Online ASCII Animator by mintplant on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:43AM (#11296068)

I'm sorry to say that it seems to be down again - getting 502 Gateway Timeout from nginx.

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Re:ASCIImator: Online ASCII Animator by asiekierka on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:46AM (#11296079)

Oh, I see - MySQL is taking so long to process the queries that php-fpm runs out of free processes. Trying to "fix" it...

Update: I commented out most of the main page, but now at least the rest works. Yay. Needs caching. I'll add some when I come back home in four hours, nonetheless - this brave attempt at trying to resurrect the site's community made the whole thing collapse unexpectedly.

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Re:ASCIImator: Online ASCII Animator by adamowen on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:55AM (#11296327)

Worth signing up for CloudFlare's free plan, and setting a page rule to 'Cache everything'. That should help you a lot!

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Re:ASCIImator: Online ASCII Animator by milkey_mouse on Saturday March 19, 2016 @05:56PM (#11320669)

Except that CloudFlare is kind of evil: http://www.crimeflare.com/

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