leed25d wrote:
] Wed Mar 5 14:14:31 PST 2003
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] I would like to point out that an article about the
] Radebaugh exhibit was just published on slashdot. Its not the first time that a link has gotten well placed within MemeStreams several days before getting picked up by a major weblog. Its happened many times. I was just talking to Decius about this the other day. Glad you all noticed it too. :) All evidence that the thing we have going on is working. We are still really early in on it though. There are about 20 of us who are frequent posters. We mostly know each other. In many ways, we have one tight-knit group of people, and a bunch of folks starting to file in around the fringes.. The system allows for a mugh higher degree of group seperation then we have right now, even at its present state. I feel I can describe just about everything right now as "young and immature". I mean that in a totally good way too. We have many good things on the way. We have a massive backlog of features and bug fixes for the site.. Lots of stuff on the back end needs to get worked out before we can give the parts of the site everyone sees and uses the focus they require. Most of the work being done right now by me is on backend stuff that noone really sees.. Its nearly impossible for me to give any kinda accurate estimate about what new stuff is going to hit when. Life is crazy these days. Things have been getting done faster now then any time in the past, but what gets done when is dependent on how today's quest for survival is going. And like any development project, some things go faster then you expect, and you hit things that hold you up. Hence, don't expect a timeline, just expect things to happen. At least for the near future. As Decius has told me in email and on the phone several times now, I need to be more vocal about whats going on around here. Do things like post when I make a site update and saying whats changed. Basic stuff like that.. Well folks, the truth of the matter is, most of the time after I take the site out of maintaince mode, I'm ususally thinking about one thing and one thing only.. The pillow. I find it shortly thereafter, and the next day I decide that it wasn't that important. Yeah, I know thats lame. I'll be more chatty. I promise. As said earlier, most of what I'm working on now is backend related. Once I'm finished up with that house cleaning, the code that generates user bios and blogs is going to get my love. Its the oldest code in the system, and it is filled with the scars of changed approaches. It just needs to be hacked up, taking into account a bunch of new capabilities we will have shortly. Things like pictures in bios are going to happen in that process. The focus of much of the work is on scalability and making it easier to add new features and tweak UI. Also.. Logging, and by extension statistics available, are going to get more advanced. You will be able to see how many hits your blog gets.. What search terms have hit what memes in the system from search engines.. Etc. Basically, you will be able to see your blog's statistics. (And its worth saying somewhere in this paragraph that I have a strong respect for privacy.) The code for recommends is going to get my love. Things like email posting interface, XML-RPC support, etc, all are in the target crosshairs. Many things that users have requested will get implemented. Its another peice of code that shows its age. Decius described it as having features "stapled" on. I'm trying not to plan much further ahead of that, or risk getting ahead of myself. Although, there are many areas of the system I am activly thinking about. A lot of planed new features are dependent on things happening now. You know the story. Anyway.. Yea. We have a new approach on the weblog that seems to be working. Stay tuned. Its still early in the game for us. Lots to do. More later.. RE: The Impending Death of /. is Predicted | 
