Long time no see. Several days ago, on June 11th, Socialfeed opened as an Open Beta. Socialfeed now has a sign-up feature, and anyone can join.
On June 11th and 12th, we were thrilled to have several hundred first-time users. We were happy, but like all startups, we had some performance problems. Deep apologies to all the newcomers.
I worked hard to fix the problems, and now the site is much better. We made a list of what we can do and will get to these soon.
We’ll be doing the following as soon as possible:
- Find and improve unoptimized code
- Use the RubyOnRails cache feature for the hottest pages
- Optimize SQL
In July, we hope to:
- Replace our server with a much faster one.
- Dedicate separate servers to different roles. Right now, everything is in one place. We’ll get multiple servers and give each one a separate function. This should keep the backend processes from affecting the user experience.
- Optimize DB and SQL
- Load-balancing
We also found several trivial and a few serious bugs that sometimes return an “application error” message. We will work hard to find and fix the bugs, as well as improve the features themselves.
We will also launch a simple feedback form in a few days, and we’re looking forward to hearing from you. Of course, feel free to also post comments to this blog. I will be sure to respond.
Keep connected to your neighbors, and then find some more!
