Hey Folks.

Performance has hopefully taken a drastic turn for the best. Our latest release (v5.5.5) includes a number of key improvements. Release details:

• Overhaul of front-end code (faster page loads)


• Records accurately display Collaborations they've been contributed to


• Browse is more efficient in displaying relevant content


• User Recommendations are sorted by when they were recommended


• You can delete your own Comments (Remarks)


• Bug fixes througout the website

Thank you for your continued feedback.

Jordan

v5.3.6 Update Summary:

• Comments (Remarks) are now back in the Dashboard!!!

• CPPP profit revisions and updates

Thanks for your patience with the Dashboard updates, things have been very busy over here.

Best,

Jordan

v5.3.3 Update Summary:

• Firefox-specific fixes for Subscribing, Commenting, and viewing Recomendations

• Conversations page loads more

• Comments will render carriage returns/newlines correctly

• Resourcing and Search/Browse allows exact keywords and ID searching

Thanks everyone!!

Jordan

Howdy!

We've been working hard to release some exciting updates to the site. This is a major release version 5.3 of the site. Here are some highlights:

• Record & Album pages now have a unified Recommendation panel so you can page through all of the people who have hearted a Record/Album

• Record & Album pages incorporate a brand new Commenting system which allows you to quickly page through the comments (previously called Remarks) as well as post Comments without interrupting playback of Audio and Video

• Resourcing has been improved and made more intuitive

• Searching and Browsing is improved and includes People once again in search results

• Many bug fixes and general site improvements are also part of this release

Thank you all for your amazing feedback. We will continue working hard to respond in kind and help enable your kick-ass collaboration!

Best,

Jordan

Hey Friends,

I'm happy to announce the release of the features we postponed on 12/6/12. The following is now released!

New features and improvements to application:

- Completely new Album creation/revise process

- New Album design

- Completely new Heart capabilities (this will also reset hearts/recommends to their correct value)

- Fixes to bottlenecks throughout, including loading of records on page via Ajax#record_dynamic

- Improved counter caching for hearts, views, comments, etc.

- As soon as all of the above is deployed, then we begin the Album migration task which will move all existing Albums into their new format

Hey Folks,

I'm really excited to be rolling out a bunch of awesome tonight. Take a look at a breakdown of what's being released:

Production environment tweaks:

- Background tasks are piling up due to insufficient worker threads; need to reconfigure to spawn more workers

- Our memcached (caching) cluster is not yet being used and needs to be properly configured; this will improve performance even more 

[UPDATE 1: The following has been postponed for the time-being. I will update you all when these are officially set for release.]

New features and improvements to application:

- Completely new Album creation/revise process

- New Album design

- Completely new Heart capabilities (this will also reset hearts/recommends to their correct value)

- Fixes to bottlenecks throughout, including loading of records on page via Ajax#record_dynamic

- Improved counter caching for hearts, views, comments, etc.

- As soon as all of the above is deployed, then we begin the Album migration task which will move all existing Albums into their new format

I'll be taking the site into maintenance mode starting at 6PM PST. We should be live within a couple hours. Thanks for all your patience.

Best,

Jordan

Hey All,

After pulling an all-nighter, the site is back up and running on an entirely new hosting platform. Known issues to look out for:

• Some user's Dashboards will be empty until the data migration task has completed


• There might be some lag in new Dashboard items showing up


• There might be some lag in the Search and Browse features


• All of the above are temporary as we adjust to this new platform

Please do not hesitate to send us feedback via GetSatisfaction:

http://getsatisfaction.com/hitrecord

Thank you,

Jordan

Hey All,

I will be taking hitRECord into maintenance mode within the hour (10PM PST) in order to make some heavy modifications to the site. This is the first of two sets of changes being deployed this week that will help substanitally improve the reliability and peformance of the site.

The site will be unavailable officially between 10PM PST 12/4 and 2AM PST 12/5.

To progress,

Jordan

Hey hitRECorders!

This evening we took the site into Maintenance Mode to make the following performance improvements:

* Upgraded backend service (Redis) capacity to improve Dashboard and background jobs. This should help reduce Application Errors. 

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As always, we'd love to hear your feedback: https://getsatisfaction.com/hitrecord 

Thanks!

Jordan

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