Previous code iteratively called set_user_status() once for each user;
which in turn was rerendering the user sidebar, also once for each user.
I changed the API a bit by replacing activity.set_user_status() with
activity.set_user_statuses(), plural, that takes an object and updates
all the user statuses in one go before rendering.
(imported from commit 1111c9029264f892f25e76d2e5e5ff996dcbc7ca)
This seems to only happen with Firefox for some reason. We've had
similar issues with other ajax endpoints, so this is probably not the
long-term solution, but I'd like to get this traceback fixed now.
(imported from commit aa552fb56882ae2c73e352c7baf9532a88c5cf0a)
The String.localeCompare function is really slow, at least partially
because it creates a locale-aware collator object each time. So now,
when we can, we create and cache a locale-aware collator object.
However, this is not supported on most browsers, so we fall back to a
non-locale-aware comparison. This is not ideal, but for now we are
mostly working with English-speaking customers.
(imported from commit 51aa02e3b9fe4a0ef0cb084874fe26e91c57f65e)
This commit will incorrectly list past-online users as active, a shortcoming that is
addressed in the next commit
(imported from commit b018767df686f88c0ca939c067c573e4d7cea357)
It's closer to a presence query than an update, and more importantly
this moves this out of Tornado -- previously Tornado was spending at
least 3ms per recipient on messages sent to the MIT realm fetching all
this data to return back to users. This should save around 100ms per
message sent to a popular stream the MIT realm -- but more
importantly, each such event is 100ms during which Tornado is not
processing other messages.
(imported from commit 134169f0fdcd9f6640fda957edc4a28b07783d8e)
One of Matt Goldstein's comments is that we often make you look
like you're not at your computer, even when you are, just because
you haven't checked Humbug for a while.
While it's important to have this be accurate, right now I think
we err on the side of showing you as not present. So I increased
some of the timeouts in an attempt to fix that.
(imported from commit 9fd8f432e6684ec1b33d1d932f37caa99c627959)
We don't typically have these (see message type, etc.) and removing
them will allow simplifying the code.
(imported from commit fbefb08ee9b08c73f32c8150a6fa1060957aa8ad)
Scott Feeney
Tim Abbott
Zev Benjamin
Leo Franchi
Keegan McAllister
Waseem Daher