Friday, December 6th edit
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).
- 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.
- User:HostBot is now using Snuggle data to send more/better invitations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.