Wikipedia:Snuggle/Work log/Archive Dec13

Friday, December 6th
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). --EpochFail (talk &bull; contribs) 15:04, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) 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.
 * 2) User:HostBot is now using Snuggle data to send more/better invitations.
 * 3) 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.
 * 4) 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.
 * 5) 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.