Faster Faster Faster! - Speed's our obsession at the moment. There were a few bumps in the road last week with some server problems so we are busy working on optimizing the website code and databases so the site runs much more smoothly. You should have already noticed some improvement and over the next week we hope to do more. With literally millions of lines of code this is quite a challenge but we are making good progress - please let us know your experiences when using the site.
As well as optimizing the site we have also been working on some more bugs, upgrades and fixes:
Featuring Stories
Fixed some bugs around when you feature or unfeature stories from your station homepage or network. More work on this to come.
Picture Notes
New picture notes are now added at the top of the column making it easier to manage all your great adverts and links
Privacy settings
We made some changes to the way private stories are displayed and how the system works out who can see what. There is more work on this to do but this will ensure your story stays private and it wont slow down the site.
Search Results
We had a spring clean of all the search results so they are more relevant and faster than ever before.
What we are working on next:
More tutorials on using the new features
Changing the order of comments on stories
Fixing the auto-featuring and order of stories on stations and networks
Making the sign up as a reporter link moveable so you can choose where to put it
Improving the layout of audio and documents on stories
Introducing better error pages to give more information and options
Things coming soon:
Improving reporter sign up
Easier profile/picture approval
Improved Blogs