Some of you may have noticed that Skillboard.Evie has been struggling over the past few days. I’m aware of this and have decided to allocate tomorrow May 1st to addressing these issues.
I was able to do some digging and have narrowed it down to memory issues with our caching layer. This is both a good issue to have and a bad one.
Good because the site has grown to the state that it exists. Bad because I didn’t anticipate this.
I’m still not sure, beyond upgrading the server that the docker containers run on, how to address this but I’ll be looking in to it tomorrow.
Issues that users are likely to experience are:
The home page fails to load.
New users are stuck on the profile provisioning step that thanks you for registering and mentions we are pulling down that characters ESI data.
I’ll be using this post to keep the community up to date on any fixes that get put in place.
Thank you and apologies for any inconveniences this may cause. Will post again soon.
If a CCP Dev or member of the ISM sees this, it might be a good idea to pin it.
I just completed the first round of optimizations.
They were:
We trimmed some fat around what was being passed from the backend to the browser when loading a characters page. If you’re on a slow internet connection, you may see an decrease in page load times.
We removed an unnecessary middleware that was causing some users to experience up to a 10+ minute delay when registering a new character. Now, there is a pro and con here. The pro is the removal of the middleware. The con is that the redirect back from the SSO to Skillboard.Evie may take a few extra seconds as we are now doing the processing that the middleware was doing for us in that callback instead of passing it off to another thread and have the browser poll for an update. I’m interested to see if this is beneficial or not. I’ve done this in previous applications with no issues, so I’m not expecting any issues.
As always, you can join me on Discord if you have any issues and I’ll be glad to take a look. Have a good weekend everybody.
Hi. Where can I go to get help with the Skillboard Evie? No skills or any other information show up for my character? I have tried removing the third party application from my Eve account page (which it does) but it doesn’t affect the Evie. I waited a few hours after the last attempt incase something needed to update but nothing has changed. Can anyone help with this please?
I read the above prior to my comment, but thanks for that recommendation. I only asked because the issue I am having is not listed above and I wasn’t sure if I was doing something incorrectly. You might notice that I asked if “anyone” can help with this as I figured someone else may have had this issue and worked out how to overcome it, I was certainly not hassling the creator of the Evie. Just relax.
Apologies for my absence lately. Work has been hella crazy, still is, and all Eve Related projects kinda got the back burner but now I should start having time after work where I shouldn’t be so exhausted so I’m gonna try to start addressing some of the issues that I’ve seen crop up with Skillboard lately.
As a note to everybody who see this. You’ll have better luck reaching me via the Discord link at the bottom of the site then you will via these forums since I can’t get email notifications from this platform (or at least I can’t find the setting to enable them)