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I should have clarified - the page doesn't just show a random quote. When it presents a quote, it highlights each word in that quote if another quote starting with that word exists in the database. Clicking on that highlighted word will take you to a random quote in the database starting with that word. You could simply refresh the page to get a brand new quote, but the point of the site is to discover new quotes by clicking on key words.

Hey everyone, I've had my hands on a great database of around 18,000 famous quotes for some time now so I thought it to be about time I did something with it. There are plenty of quotes websites out there, so I thought I'd mix it up a little bit. With that, QuoteStumbler was created. Let me know what you all think! http://www.quotestumbler.com

Thanks for the tip - I'll definitely be using that for the alternative login.

The font part has been an issue - the font looks great in Safari or FireFox on a mac, but in any windows browser it isn't supported. I'll use some PHP in the style sheet to change the font for different browsers/platforms. I think I need to change the wording of the stats section - the "1 user browsing 53 snippets" part is correct, but what it means to say is that there is one user online and the site has 53 snippets in total. I've also fixed the pagination issue with the language views - that should be reflected now. Lastly - with the JS/AJAX issue - I'll be adding some alternative options, but the vast majority of my audience has JS and AJAX enabled - especially because my target segment is the development community, which is more inclined to use these technologies. That being said, I'm still excluding a small percent, and however small that percent is, they should be included - for that I'll try to provide some sort of fallback option.

Alright - well, the biggest piece of advice that I got was to cut down on the code in the front page and replace it with an introduction to the site. I did a bit of each. There's some intro text and a list of 8 recently added snippets. Does this look better, or does anyone have any suggestions for something better? Thanks for all the help! If you're just joining, the site is http://www.snipiti.com

It's not rendering properly on mobilesafari on my iPhone. I'll check it out when I get home and get back to you.

My css file is written in php, and serves different rules to different browsers. It's all I can do until people stop using IE I'll adjust the fonts.

deskit - I get what you're saying now. On the one hand, it would make things cleaner, but I like showing off the syntax highlighting on the main page. I'll try it your way though and see if I like it. Also, which browser/OS are you using? I feel like the fonts aren't carrying over like they should.

dezkit - I've fixed that issue - should work now. BoltZ - under 'recently added' the code previews do link to the actual articles. If you click the 'Read' underneath it'll take you to the full article where you can see the information about the snippet as well as make comments.

thanks, I had been meaning to fix that and had forgotten. Should be taken care of in a few.

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! 1. I originally had categories, and can turn on that functionality with the flip of a switch. The problem that I ran into was that it added too much confusion to the submission process. I wanted it to be as easy as possible to add snippets, and even with an "other" category, it's just another step. If everyone disagrees, I'd be more than happy to turn that on. 2. BoltZ - what was the suggestion you said I should do? 3. Dezkit - I agree - there are places where the design isn't completely finished but I'm hoping to clean everything up as time goes. If anyone encounters any errors or bugs, let me know! Thanks everyone! Jeremy

Hey, I posted a link a while back to my latest project - It's called Snipiti.com, and it's an online community where you can search and post source code snippets for a variety of languages. I'd really like if people could give some feedback on it, whether positive or negative. There are some parts that are not yet feature-complete, but the site as a whole is finished and it works. Feel free to post some scripts, make some comments, and let me know if anything doesn't work right. Thanks for all your help! Here's the link: http://www.snipiti.com

So besides data that persists throughout a session, most memory is being freed at the end of a request? So it seems that it's more a question of memory being retained than the overall usage per request. That still leaves some unknowns, but I think that pretty much answers it.

If it uses a little under 4mb per request, with 1000 users on at once would my site be using 4gb of memory, or does it not add up that way. On a shared host, that much usage would surely pose a problem, which was the purpose of my question. Edit: I fully understand that this does not affect the user. My question is about server-side memory usage. The pages being served are not unusually large.

I don't know if it will affect anyone yet. I haven't opened the site to the public, so my question is whether or not this will become an issue as traffic builds. So yes, it does matter, because if 3.85MB is a high amount of memory to be using, my site won't scale well. My question is whether or not this is the case.