Posted by Zack Garbow on December 08 2008

You may have noticed a slow down of Socialbrowse (and at many points, a full outage) since last night. This was due to some feature upgrades we had deployed. Unfortunately, the new code did not play as nicely on our Socialbrowse servers as they did on our test environment! We tried to solve the errors, but eventually realized that to restore consistent service we'd need to remove the new features until we can confidently diagnose the root cause.

Socialbrowse should be stable again now, so please be sure to share and discuss all the back links we may have missed! We'll fix the leaderboard and get those new features out to you as soon as we can figure out the problem they were causing, and we'll tell you about them here.

We apologize for the problems and will improve our processes so it doesn't happen again.