Short update

The simple number of chat channels does not seem to be a problem.

A) We still recommend closing them and deactivating voice if you are not using it.
B) We are doing testing on the texture quality, and would like to be able to recommend to players what to expect in frames by tuning it down.

However, when a player does some actions, there is a "refresh all chat members" call that happens across all channels, even if it's not an active channel. We will be trying to stop that from happening as it can cripple the performance in large alliance chats.

We will also be testing whether the icons/portraits are causing load issues. They do not seem to be.

Based on testing we will probably instill two clean up rules:

1) All email older than 30 days will be deleted during downtime. Store hatemail by forwarding to alts, or take a picture, it lasts longer.

2) All channels that have had no activity in a certain period will be deleted during downtime.



I also have a question, in the many threads, I remember someone mentioning some work done on bringing up Corp MEmber info, versus the Contact list being super slow to load. This optimization happened before I was on the team so help would be appreciated.

The only visible change from it was when you look at corp members it has a generic empty image for all members where pre change it had your icon. The same icon the contact list and all the channels currently show. This is why I believe your wrong it's not the icon causing issues :)

I wish this also applied to the corp members tab of the contacs pop up, when trying to invite people to a chat... takes forever and a half, though thankfully not the centuries it takes to load the contacts tab :(

Could you see if you could give the Dust creates of chat channels administrative powers so we don't have to rely on the egg people?