#382 Making background jobs happen faster

[JCSzamosi]

In order to reduce the subjective time experienced by users waiting for their background jobs to finish, it would be ideal to have a relativistic event such that the user approaches light speed while the machine running the process stays put. In order to simulate this effect, I recommend the browser display the following page while background jobs are running:
http://www.leekspin.com/

[Jonathan Dushoff]

I support this idea. In particular I believe that the suggested fix will be associated with a substantially lower risk of user-fatal side-effects than more commonly implemented relativistic front-ends.

[Jonathan Dushoff]

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[Lee Worden]

perhaps this could be a preferences option?

[Lee Worden]

Ticket moved from /p/workingwiki/feature-requests/40/

[Lee Worden]

Implemented. Not enabled by default: set $wwEnableLeekspin = true to enable on selected wikis.

Note does not currently work so well on Firefox, because Firefox is now blocking flash. Non-flash version of leekspin animation needed.

[Lee Worden]

Note also that the current implementation displays the leekspin animation when the wiki page takes more than 60 seconds to load, not in connection with long-running background jobs.

[Lee Worden]

Note also, when the leekspin feature is enabled on a given wiki, users see a Preferences option to turn the feature on and off. In stock WW, the default value for that user option is off, but that can be customized by wiki administration.

Thus before anyone actually sees a leekspin video, it has to be enabled by admin for that wiki, and then also enabled by the user. (And they have to be using a Flash-enabled browser, i.e. not Firefox.)