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Etherpad tips | |||
Some people have periodically mentioned issues of an etherpad failing to load after much use. In order to avoid these problems, Mozilla IT recommends following these guidelines... | |||
To explain a little further: | |||
- etherpad works best when you're doing short term team planning. | |||
- It is not efficient for long term tasks, or pad name re-use. | |||
Why, Obi-Wan, is this not so? | |||
- Etherpad stores EVERY update in the database (even single character changes if there's a small pause between them) | |||
- therefore gets clogged/slowed down after ~24 hours of use in a pad (may be faster or slower depending upon how much info is input into the pad). | |||
A few general guidelines of how to make etherpad work better and more reliably for you: | |||
- Don't reuse pads just to have the same pad name. | |||
(This is the biggest reason why pads crash. People delete the contents of a pad and re-use it to keep the same pad name. This is a bad idea. What's really happening is the old pad is still there, you're just writing over top of it, and making the pad that much larger in the database) | |||
- If you've been working on a pad for more than 3-4 days of work (e.g. 4 Mondays in a row, or 4 days in a row, all the same), start a new pad. | |||
- If you have a large copy/paste section, don't put it in the pad, pastebin it and put the pastebin link in the pad. | |||
- If you've put a lot of text into a pad ( would equate to 5-10+ pages worth of a word document), start a new pad. | |||
- If you plan on doing any of the above, use google docs instead. | |||
=== Web Compatibility === | === Web Compatibility === | ||