Archive for July, 2006

Server hiccup

July 20, 2006

We had some hardware failure issues earlier last week, but they are now all resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience. We lost a day or so worth of data, but our backup systems made us recoverable. I logged my first overnighter at work and slept 8 hours over 3 days. All to bring you the site!

We’ve done some housecleaning to make sure we’re in better shape for future problems like this. After switching over to SVN from CVS, you can expect a major change in the main page for the site.

Post July 4th New Changes: New infrastructure and a few Overhauls

July 7, 2006

We have been busy. We’ve changed our infrastructure and the front end.

  • Thanks to Cecilia and Kristle, two of our cool interns, we now have a wiki up where we’ve tried to gather some documentation. Please help us keep it up to date!
  • We’ve created this blog as a place to keep you up to date on all the feature updates
  • Admins forum is now public for anyone to access.
  • The Admin Panel for each of the sites has gone through a revamping.
  • Your user profile page is overhauled. We will continue beefing it up. We’ll talk more about this at another time.
  • We’ve moved over from FastCGI, which is weak sauce, on over to Apache + Mongrel Clusters on the backend. This should have put an end to the mysterious page stalls.
  • Vishal, another another member of the cool interns club, has mercilessly hunted down and fixed image scraping hiccups.
  • A gaggle of bugs should be fixed.