Scheduled Maintenence Complete

We have been working hard on the backend to improve the performance of FeedLounge. We know performance is important to you, so keep watching this space to see more updates.

• System maintenance was a success. We mopped up a few spills, solidified a few more services, tweaked a few database server parameters, etc.
• Performance update: Logging of feed update activity is now done to MogileFS, offloading from the database. More changes to include MogileFS in the future where appropriate.
• Performance update: All preferences are now handled by a custom preference server, using Twisted and a BerkeleyDB backend, further offloading the database.
• More invalid character fixes.
• memcached is installed and running, with a small portion of the application in test. More caching updates to come as well.

Note: Loading items by feed tag is particularly slow, and we are profiling the application to find where the bottlenecks lie. Please be patient, and if you can, read items per feed for the interim. Just press the = key to expand/collapse a tag. If a tag is expanded, space bar navigation will move to each feed inside the tag.