after listening to the most recent powncecast and feeling the pain of Mike Lewis, et al, I thought this was an interesting response from the pownce gang in the thread about the new iphone/touch interface coming up:

!scottph we're working on site performance, and it's been steadily improving. The pub/sub scaling problem is not an easy problem to solve, particularly with a small team on a budget. Believe it or not, we are aware of the issues and we're trying hard to address them.

In fact, one of the biggest time drains at the moment is explaining to people what the issues are and when we're going to have them resolved. It's lose/lose - when we focus on development, people get mad at us for not communicating. When we focus on communicating, people get mad at us for not doing anything to fix the problems. As a general rule we've decided that (for the most part) fixing the problems is more important than communicating. So I'm going to stop writing this response now and go back to coding :).

1 month, 2 weeks ago by Scott P.