Duolingo taking longer to evaluate translations

[cat77043]

It seems that now Duolingo has to "think about" my translations for a lot longer when I submit them. I wonder if this is due to many more users?

[xoviat]

Duolingo is probably having some trouble scaling their system in this area, since comparing the translations is somewhat computationally intensive.

[cat77043]

lol Ummm, what does that mean? "scaling their system?" I can see where it would be intensive for the computer to compare translations.

[xoviat]

See here for your question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability Just now, though, I am having better response times than I was yesterday, so maybe they fixed it.