We’re coming to the end of the second week after the site relaunch. Here are some of the things we’ve been working on:

Additions and improvements made this week:

• Added auto-scaling monitor to boost server power at busy times
• Enabled suggested profiles on member home page
• Enabled expanded results in Search & Match
• Added multiple asset hosts to speed up page load times

Here are some of the fixes we’ve made:

• Set matches email gender to opposite gender always
• Corrected end date in age search
• Remove un-needed params from anonymous searches
• Fixed error message on forgot password form if submitting an incorrect email address

Site Activity for this week:

10,784 emails sent this week
13,269 waves sent this week
1,376 new photos uploaded this week
457 new members joined this week

It’s a been a hectic week at the CC office and although it hasn’t been smooth sailing all the way, we’re pleased with where it’s at, as we go into the weekend.

You may have noticed the site was down from around 5:30pm this afternoon (for 38 minutes). Sorry for the inconvenience. Sam has been working on a major update to the Search & Match area, which has drastically improved the speed of the search. This in turn has improved the overall speed of the whole site. He needed to take the site offline whilst making this change.

Here’s a rundown of additions and improvements we’ve made since the launch:

• Completely Re-factored search algorithms to speed up Search & Match
• Improved fraud matching system to more accurately catch and block scammers
• Upgraded database size and number of connections to better handle number of incoming requests
• Increased number of server connections (dynos) to improve page speeds and avoid timeout messages
• Increased maximum messages per day for full members to 30
• Enabled deleting of sent messages
• Improved asset caching and compression to load images and stylesheets faster
• Made ‘last logged in’ date more readable

We’ve also been working on a few fixes and corrections:

• Fixed odd characters appearing in mailbox messages
• Removed previously deleted messages from mailboxes
• Reinstated keyword search
• Restored hidden members lists
• Fixed blocking on chat

Thanks to everyone who wrote in with comments and suggestions. We have been listening to your feedback and we’ve started by making some immediate changes to the most important issues. We still have quite a few improvements which we’ll be making in the coming weeks. The new platform will allow us to introduce changes faster than the old site.

Thanks again for bearing with us, for all your positive comments and for being part of the Christian Connection community.