Steve Goodwin recently postulated the idea of a Wistow Number which I've decided, for purposes of paranoia, to take as a compliment.

Weirdly enough this was the original reason I bought (or had bought for me, technically) thegestalt.org several years ago since some friends and I had joked about a roughly similar concept and I had visions of ( Read more... )

Mariachi has scaling issues caused by the fact that it doesn't arbitarily break stuff up over month boundries because, well, threads don't stop just because it's the end of the month. That plus threading meant that it slowed to a crawl around the $n thousand messages mark, even when adding messages incrementally. This is sub-optimal.

A while back ( Read more... )