what's been up and what's going down
posted by max on May 02, 2006 at 05:32:36 PM
I know it's been too long since my last update, I've been pretty busy with some new stuff.
First off, I've been working night and day on the new lists engine, and the back end is nearly complete. The first feature that will launch using this engine is real user favorites. Hopefully this should be done in the next couple days.
To smooth out the launching of this feature I've changed the url structure for linking to users. It is now /users/username instead of /users/profile/username. More news inside.
The next few weeks or so will be spent entirely on "users" features. Users will be able to add some real info into their profile and possibly even a picture, generic profile stuff. There will be an interface to allow you to see the following information about a user:
These features will most likely all happen within the next week. After that some features I am debating are private messaging and user groups, to try and move more of the community aspect off the forums and onto the main site.
After the users, the front page is getting a full redesign and the top 15 will have a lot less pull than it used to, it's a pretty major change and I'll have more information on it soon.
About the donation stuff, I've sent out requests for quotes on two new servers, a new DB server to become a slave DB now that the live DB is doing roughly 500 queries per second and up to 1600 per second at peak time. The forums machine is too problematic and is going to be replaced as well by a much more powerful machine which should hold up a lot better and which can also be used to offload some of the heavier data processing and possibly mail. Once these quotes come in I'll update the sponsorship goal.
First off, I've been working night and day on the new lists engine, and the back end is nearly complete. The first feature that will launch using this engine is real user favorites. Hopefully this should be done in the next couple days.
To smooth out the launching of this feature I've changed the url structure for linking to users. It is now /users/username instead of /users/profile/username. More news inside.
The next few weeks or so will be spent entirely on "users" features. Users will be able to add some real info into their profile and possibly even a picture, generic profile stuff. There will be an interface to allow you to see the following information about a user:
- A basic profile
- A list of the users sites similar to the current setup.
- /users/max/votes would be my last 30 or so votes, and a graph of my vote spread.
- Comments: the last 15 comments this user has made.
- Favorites: the user's favorite sites with possible notes on each.
- Lists: lists the user has created or is a maintainer of.
These features will most likely all happen within the next week. After that some features I am debating are private messaging and user groups, to try and move more of the community aspect off the forums and onto the main site.
After the users, the front page is getting a full redesign and the top 15 will have a lot less pull than it used to, it's a pretty major change and I'll have more information on it soon.
About the donation stuff, I've sent out requests for quotes on two new servers, a new DB server to become a slave DB now that the live DB is doing roughly 500 queries per second and up to 1600 per second at peak time. The forums machine is too problematic and is going to be replaced as well by a much more powerful machine which should hold up a lot better and which can also be used to offload some of the heavier data processing and possibly mail. Once these quotes come in I'll update the sponsorship goal.
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Cyclonus in comment 310: "Max, seriously, I can't tell you how frustrating it is when I go to downvote some retard for
talking sh*t and he has no sites created to downvote." You f*cking idiot, if you downvote someone for "talking sh*t" you're a f*ggot that should be banned from the site. Vote on site quality alone and put aside your little pussy internet feuds. If I can do it, anyone can.
I know it's been too long since my last update, I've been pretty busy with some new stuff.
First off, I've been working night and day on the new lists engine, and the back end is nearly complete. The first feature that will launch using this engine is real user favorites. Hopefully this should be done in the next couple days.
To smooth out the launching of this feature I've changed the url structure for linking to users. It is now /users/username instead of /users/profile/username. More news inside.
The next few weeks or so will be spent entirely on "users" features. Users will be able to add some real info into their profile and possibly even a picture, generic profile stuff. There will be an interface to allow you to see the following information about a user: