More cache work, summary tables and video upload
The interesting about Fab Swingers is that virtually all of the membership comes from word of mouth recommendation. So really the best way of getting more members now is just to work on improving the site (except for regions where we don’t yet have a critical mass of members).
The past couple of days I’ve been working on scalability. Profiles are now cached (with memcache) in a better way. I’ve also removed a whole bunch of counts in SQL and replaced them with summary tables.
Finally, I’ve also been working on a new feature. One of the things that we’ve really missed is video upload and someone requested it in the swingers forums. I’m not going to do this myself, instead I’m going to integrate with a video hosted service but it should be fairly transparent.
None of this has been deployed to the live server yet and there will be a short outage too — it’s going to take a little time to build up the summary tables.