> lwn.net:8088 is pretty slow right now -- is it using a CGI script
> instead of something faster, or is there a real performance problem?

Interesting...Neil commented on how fast it is...:)

Seriously, I'm surprised you saw such slowness.  I'm as yet unsure about
how it will perform under real load, but there's not been problems with the
test site, in general.

FWIW, I'm running it under mod_python.

> I tried to post a comment without logging in and got a traceback:

That's interesting - you shouldn't have been given the option of doing
that.  I'll have to look into it.

> You
> probably need some cookies-disabled-detection code, and a "You need to
> enable cookies to login" page.

We probably do...it's true...

> Ooh, just noticed that I -- a random surfer who just got a free login --
> have an "Article operations" box with "withdraw" and "delete" links.
> Presumably those are for admins only.  They don't work right now, but it
> could be bad if they did!

Interesting.  Did you get that for anything besides the comment that you
posted?

> On a higher level, I sure hope you're not planning to turn LWN into
> Slashdot for grownups!  I read LWN for the stories, and I do *not* read
> Slashdot *because of* the comments.

We don't.  Among other things, there's a customization option that allows
you to make comments disappear from the site entirely.  Some people want
comments, and we'll provide them, but comments are not intended to be the
central feature of the site.

Thanks for the feedback,

jon

Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
corbet@lwn.net