Wikipedia:Snuggle/Work log/Archive Dec13

Friday, December 6th

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Hey folks. I just wanted to say that I'm alive and hacking on code for Snuggle on a daily basis -- but it hasn't had an effect on the UI (other than minor performance improvements).

  1. Last week, I dealt with a couple of problems that were causing Snuggle's synchronization server (that listens to Special:Recentchanges) to get hung up.
  2. User:HostBot is now using Snuggle data to send more/better invitations.
  3. I've been looking into Redis, an in-memory key-value-like database system, in order to be able to push Snuggle's performance a bit. Right now, Snuggle is running at the limit of what we can manage with Mongo -- and it's only tracking a relatively small set of newcomer (~100,000). I'm interested in reworking Snuggle to track *all* editors' recent activity.
  4. OAuth is still on my radar, but I've put that on the back-burner while I explore a redesign of Snuggle's back-end. If I can just include OAuth in the next major version of Snuggle, that would slow me down less.
  5. I'm looking for other developers to help out with Snuggle work. Specifically, it would be nice to have someone who is interested in hacking on the UI (HTML/CSS/Javascript) so that I can focus on back-end stuff (Python/Mongo-Redis). Though honestly, I could use some help back-end work if someone was interested/capable.

--EpochFail (talkcontribs) 15:04, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]