Bad Memory- March 28, 2008 Ouch, ouch, up and down, up and down. That would be Simpy over the last 24-48 hours. Why is this happening In short, we've got more memory, but it looks like the new memory is bad, causes server crashes, and needs to be replaced. While things are running, they are indeed nice and fast, faster than before. Because this is a case of bad memory and memory can be replaced only by shutting one of the crucial servers down, we'll have to take things down a few more times. Sorry for the...http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/news/?permalink=Bad-Memory.html Announcement: Simpy OSX Dashboard Widget- March 25, 2008 I just posted about Safari Stats on Simpy. What about Mac users regardless of the prefered browser That number is 5.36% in the last 30 days. If you are among the 5.36% Simpy Mac users, here is something for youus - a brand new Simpy dashboard widget for OSX (there is a screenshot behind this links, too). The widget lets you search your Simpy bookmarks directly from OSX. Thank you, Andu!http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/news/?permalink=Announcement-Simpy-OSX-Dashboard-Widget... Safari Stats- March 25, 2008 I just posted Firefox 3.0 stats and info about IE6 vs. IE7 vs. IE8 usage. But what about Safari I said Safari 3.1 is not showing increased usage, but I was wrong. Safari is showing increased overall usage (all versions combined). Its usage is a single digit percentage, but that percentage has been increasing over time. Concretely, over the last 2 months, its usage grew by 25%! I think this trend will continue, especially as people discover Safari on Windows. What do you thinkhttp://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/?permalink=Safari-Stats.html More Memory, More Speed- March 25, 2008 Things have not been this bad in a long time. If you looked at the screen shot there, you may have noticed just how little memory that server has. This will be changing soon. The memory is in, and I just need to schedule for some down time one of these days. Once the memory upgrade is done, I think we'll all see even faster Simpy.http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/news/?permalink=More-Memory-More-Speed.html Firefox 3.0 Stats- March 25, 2008 Several days ago I posted about the IE8 usage on Simpy. Since that post, its usage went from 0.01% (in the last 30 days then) to the massive 0.04% (also in the last 30 days, but from today) of all Internet Explorer users. I have been paying minimal attention to usage of Firefox 3.0 on Simpy over the last few months, but I had a look at the stats and can report that Firefox 3.0 is ahead of IE8 in terms of usage numbers on Simpy - Firefox 3.0 accounts for 2.23% of all Firefox users. The...http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/?permalink=Firefox-3-0-Stats.html Delicious 2.0 Delayed: Scaling Problems- March 14, 2008 Ouch, ouch. Apparently, Furl is not the only social bookmarking service that is having problems scaling these days (see: Furl Going Down). TechCrunch reports that Del.icio.us 2.0 has been delayed due to difficulties scaling the new code: "they are having problems scaling the new code. absolutely." Ouch, ouch... but I'm sure they'll fix it soooooon. Delicious users may be interesting in 10 Reasons for Simpy vs. del.icio.us (1.0, since 2.0 is not there yet).http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/?permalink=Delicious-2-0-Delayed-Scaling-Problems.html Usage: IE6 vs. IE7 vs. IE8- March 9, 2008 Update: More recent numbers for IE8 and Firefox 3.0, as well as Safari Stats. It's interesting, I've been watching the usage of Internet Explorer 6 vs. Internet Explorer 7 over on Simpy, waiting for the day when I can say that there are more Simpy IE7 users than IE6 users. Well, that day has come - it happened yesterday, actually. Over the last 30 days, of all Internet Explorer users, 50.05% were using IE7, and 49.39% were using using IE6. What's in the remaining half a percent All kinds...http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/news/?permalink=Usage-IE6-vs-IE7-vs-IE8.html New Featurette: Explore Bar- March 7, 2008 Here is a little new feature that was just added earlier today (no, uh, yesterday already). I can't think of a good name for this, so for now I'm calling it "explore bar". Let's just look at the screenshot first. (click to enlarge) When you click on a bookmark tag, whether yours or somebody else's, you will see this gray box with several (3 currently) options that let you explore other areas of Simpy using that tag you just clicked on. Concretely, you can: Simply look at everyone's...http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/news/?permalink=New-Featurette-Explore-Bar.html |