Shizzow Tweaks for the Week

We wanted to let you know about a few enhancements that we pushed out this week. This is our way of showing you we care.

The Big Stuff

• A new home. Last weekend, we moved Shizzow onto a new server with more room for our baby to grow up. It’s a dedicated server with redundant data pipes, and we’ve already noticed a massive performance boost.
• Shout time improvements. Unless you have a bunch of people listening to your shouts, this probably wasn’t much of an issue for you. For some of us, it was taking way too many seconds for the page to refresh after shouting. We tracked the issue down to the IM notifications, and optimized them so that they will work much more quickly and efficiently.
• People search now finding more people. Many of you noticed that our people search wasn’t doing a very good job of finding people. We made some tweaks, and now it is doing a much better job of actually finding people on the site.

Minor stuff that you might care about

• Lat/Long issues with moving markers have been resolved.
• Added a reminder that all places are public to the add a new place page
• People with private accounts can now page through multiple pages of pending requests
• Fixed an issue with Firebug running while using Shizzow
• Removed an extraneous space in the shout message box

As always, keep logging those issues and suggestions for improvements in Get Satisfaction, and we’ll keep making Shizzow work better for you!