Big Changes to TCI Regeneration!
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 6:04 pm
You might have already noticed, but we have made big changes to how we process TCIs on Criticker. From now on, as long as you're logged onto the site, we'll be automatically regenerating TCIs for you.
Most of our pages now include a box on the sidebar called "Automatic TCI Regeneration". This is like a window letting you peek in on the latest TCIs being generated. But even when you're browsing pages where this box isn't visible (such as the Film Database), it's still working in the background.
This does away with the need to occasionally press "Regenerate More TCIs" from the TCI page. That was troublesome, and prone to abuse. From now on, as long as you're using Criticker, your TCIs are being updated.
Also, we haven't slowed the TCI generations which run on the server overnight... you can expect your TCIs to be recalculated at least as quickly as they were in the past. Sponsors, of course, will still have their TCIs and PSIs fully regenerated every single day. (Because sponsors are the best!)
This goes hand-in-hand with an overhaul in how we store TCIs on the backend. The new storage system has been massively simplified, which should result in faster load times. And it opens up a lot of possible future enhancements which beforehand hadn't been possible. This should be mostly invisible to you -- but it bears mentioning that (at least initially), your list of TCIs might look different, as we transition from the old storage schema to the new one.
Hope you like these changes!
Most of our pages now include a box on the sidebar called "Automatic TCI Regeneration". This is like a window letting you peek in on the latest TCIs being generated. But even when you're browsing pages where this box isn't visible (such as the Film Database), it's still working in the background.
This does away with the need to occasionally press "Regenerate More TCIs" from the TCI page. That was troublesome, and prone to abuse. From now on, as long as you're using Criticker, your TCIs are being updated.
Also, we haven't slowed the TCI generations which run on the server overnight... you can expect your TCIs to be recalculated at least as quickly as they were in the past. Sponsors, of course, will still have their TCIs and PSIs fully regenerated every single day. (Because sponsors are the best!)
This goes hand-in-hand with an overhaul in how we store TCIs on the backend. The new storage system has been massively simplified, which should result in faster load times. And it opens up a lot of possible future enhancements which beforehand hadn't been possible. This should be mostly invisible to you -- but it bears mentioning that (at least initially), your list of TCIs might look different, as we transition from the old storage schema to the new one.
Hope you like these changes!
