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Today we completed a three-month process of implementing performance upgrades to the Message Center. With these improvements in place, we're able to increase site speed and decrease the amount of errors deviants may experience in their Message Centers. Our Devious Technology and Tech Ops teams have been working hard to move Message Center data to its own dedicated database cluster. We made a considerable investment in servers with 96GB of memory and 12 CPU cores to handle 6 billion messages and 6500 queries per second.
What does this mean for you? 
- Absolutely nothing. We hope. The upgrades have already taken place and you shouldn't notice any change in your normal deviantART experience. Eventually, you should notice an increase in site speed and a decrease in Message Center errors.
- If we do run into hiccups, you may experience slowness and possibly errors in the Message Center. Some of these errors may include: delayed deliveries, failed message deletes, and things of that nature. Members who have more than 10,000 messages in a single Message Center folder may possibly experience some issues, including a few messages not being delivered or a few messages reappearing after they've already been deleted.
We are closely monitoring site performance in the wake of this upgrade. In the event something goes wrong and major issues are detected, we will revert to the old system to prevent further issues. However, things are looking good. As they say, hope for the best and expect the worst.
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6 billion messages a second?
If so, that's a crazy amount of content...
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I highly doubt that. It's rather 6 billion messages in total, spread over all the Message Centres there are.
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Yeah, that's what I thought, but it's pretty poorly worded :/
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"Members who have more than 10,000 messages in a single Message Center folder may possibly experience some issues, including a few messages not being delivered or a few messages reappearing after they've already been deleted." - Ahh... that explains a lot...
Does it count if they're foldered or is this just in the main inbox? I've always wondered how much space I'm wasting on your guys' servers.
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Sounds wonderful! Thanks for the work guys! This will be a huge help to me and to many others
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Cool.
All the message center needs now is to be live.
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Oh my I didn't know you could go over 10,000 notes before. I've never tried though because deleting them would take forever.
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I can already tell that there are fixes. My computer usually has to reload the screen a few times before all my messages are viewed. And my loading speed's a bit faster as well. Thanks kindly!!
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Perhaps now, you guys can implement changes to the notes system? Ever since I've been here, there have been very few changes, What I do remember you guys doing in the past four years is merely giving us the ability to see what had been read, mark things as read/unread, and expanding the line previews. Please consider putting a search feature into the notes, as there are many deviants (mostly commissioners) who need to be able to search for information without using the browser search on every single page.
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I partly agree. I've been here for less than four years myself, but I don't think they've hardly changed, besides what you mentioned, I think they went through more layout changes than any other part of the site I can think of. I remember coming here as a noobie and I didn't even manage to find out how to open and read the content of a note 
Besides that, we also have folders for notes now, which I find really useful myself
But I agree a search feature would be hugely useful
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Well, perhaps you ought to suggest. dA admins don't seem to listen to their members, paying or non paying. The suggestions they take into account are often from the senior members or staff.
As you said, though, the notes have not changed nearly as much as the message center or dA itself. Another place I'd like to see improvements would be in the chats, though what improvements, I'm not sure.
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They've been listening a lot lately though, symbol doesn't really make a difference at all - have you noticed the Site Updates journals for example? Or the staff posts in the Suggestions Forums lately? ^^
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