Status Update: 10/3-9
The last week was mostly a bug-fixing week: I think I got through at least 10 bugs on Bugzilla for the Guide. I added the Top Rated channels page, and changed the layout for that and the popular channels page to show the rating.
I did a little bit of caching work, and the site is feeling a lot faster. Last week, the worst page had an average rendering time of 20 seconds. Now, the worst rendering time is 3 seconds, and the average time is 0.6 seconds. I’m still working on it with BDK to make it a little simpler on our end, but not at the expense of the caching being effective.
This week I’ll be working on adding some features: releasing approved channels slowly to avoid overloading the “New Channels” page, the ability to download individual videos from channels, and some simple statistics for channel owners.