Hello everyone,
You may have noticed a few error pages over the last day when visiting the website. This is because ZapRead was starting to outgrow it's web server. I have been making upgrades to the hosting service in an effort to remedy this, and also working to optimize the website.
There is a secondary web server now up if you visit http://test.zapread.com.
I am evaluating other service options for migration and cloud hosting which may work better than the current option.
Sorry for any inconvenience. Remember that the website is still under development and issues like this should be expected.
Thank you everyone for your understanding - and keep those bug reports coming in!
I noticed the site was down, thanks for posting this and reassuring us!
Can you add something in about how the Users reputation score is calculated to the FAQ page?
I make my first post and I get a negative reputation been fairly well received on the other sites I post on 😔
Hi - that's a good question. Sorry about the site problems. I just bought some more RAM and it seems to be running better today.
Reputation is only influenced by the vote of others. You can vote on your own post or comment to promote* it, but it does not change your reputation. The reputation system will eventually also influence how much your votes change the score.
If you know a little HTML, anyone propose a change in the website FAQ source code here: https://github.com/Horndev/zapread.com/blob/master/zapread.com/Views/Home/FAQ.cshtml to add some information, or a stub to expand on.
* When you vote, you don't get all of the funds back to your account - all zapread users who post content receive funds from the pool proportional to the score and recentness of content they contributed.
Interesting I must have gotten a huge amount of down votes, as I didn't self up vote, or do negatives have a higher weight than positive votes?
Interesting - I see your posts with upvotes, so if you didn't self upvote, your reputation should be higher. Maybe there is a bug somewhere in the website - I will investigate this.