The New Blogitive System
I want to thank everyone for their patience while we updated the Blogitive application. The original system was never built to handle as many bloggers, or offers as we were pushing out. That of course was causing some issues in the system being slow and throwing up the occasional errors. We also figured out that not everybody was seeing offers when they were posted. The old system was really a victim of Blogitive’s success, so I want to thank you all for that too. It was a big shock for me to hear that had pushed out hundreds of thousands of posts for clients through our network. Those are really impressive numbers.
The new system should be working pretty smooth now. We will be making some mild tweaks and enhancements throughout the next month, but for the most part it looks to be settled down.
Even though the system looks mostly unchanged, there are actually a lot of improvements on the backend that will allow us to be more efficient in approving your posts and pushing out offers.
The entire back end was re-built using some really great technology. We moved from PHP to Ruby on Rails, and the entire application is now hosted on Amazon’s new EC2 service. We have seen a tremendous performance increase in speed due to some major architecture changes we made.
Along with the new backend architecture, we added some cool features and products that we will be rolling out very soon. One of those products is our Directory product, look for a post very soon explaining how that works.
We are now working on some additional changes to the Blogitive site. One item that is being discussed now is whether or not we should have a forum on the site. I thought I would ask our bloggers what you thought, so leave a comment letting us know if you think a forum would be helpful.
Thank again for your patience and for helping make Blogitive so successful.
March 16th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Yes I would prefer a forum.
March 17th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
A big YES on the idea of a forum..
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:28 am
Forum will become another problem like they had with P-
Not a good idea.
azrin @ http://www.azrin.net
March 24th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
I like the idea of having a forum too.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:12 am
As to the forum, it depends on what your goals are.
I’ve advocated it to you in the past, because similar tools have benefited your competition tremendously.
However, if you do not use the forum for a useful purpose yourselves it will not provide as much benefit and as Azrin points out could prove problematic.
Think about your goals and then determine how you could pursue those goals with a forum.
Based on the low activity in the blog and in follow up comments, I think a forum may not be a path you are prepared to take with current resources, kind of like buying a race car and not hiring a race car driver.
Who’s got time to drive the car all day long?
April 21st, 2007 at 10:57 am
Well, I HAVE all the time in my life to do all that…especially with my kinda work.
Come to think of it..what happen to all the opps? It’s all the old opps coming back up! Time to let PAYPAL be a payment gateway mate, I hate to give my card or bank details to 4th parties
April 28th, 2007 at 8:12 am
I signed up about 2 weeks ago but never got any reply.
What is the normal responsetime, or are there no more sign ups possible?