Important Change This Weekend - And Stats

Important changes are scheduled for this weekend. Tracking of domain names will no longer be [*.domain.com] but match exactly [domain.com]. You will need to explicitly create alerts for each sub-domain you would like to track.

First the change for the weekend: I'm optimizing the database. I've tweaked it now improving performance about 4x. One last change that will improve is the domain matching. Currently, an alert for [domain.com] is actually for [*.domain.com], i.e., matching the sub-domains too. This will be changed to exact matching so an alert for [domain.com] will match [domain.com] only and not (say) [www.domain.com].

This will be rolled out on the weekend, early on Sunday UK time. There is little activity then.

I aim for this change to be temporary while I re-work the backend to make it work better. This is part of constant work to make sure Social Alerter is always working for you.

Secondly, the stats: The above changes are due to an audit on how Social Alerter has been functioning in the past 4 weeks. All in all, it's working just fine, sending out alerts on time and tracking things perfectly.

Of all the alerts sent, 23 were for stories that actually went popular on Digg. I haven't checked the Delicious data yet. So yes, this is confirmation that Social Alerter really does work as promised!

As ever, your thoughts and comments are most welcome.