Latest News from admin
VERIFICATION
Date : 21st February, 2009
When the new email server comes online, we are going to make the move towards verified emails for members. To be honest, verifying emails has been a nightmare in the past, but now we've learned how to ensure emails reach 99% of all addresses: it's time ot introduce it for new members.
This is just another way to ensure the integrity of our membership.
15000 NEW MEMBERS A DAY!
Date : 20th February, 2009
On average a new member joins me2everyone once every 6 seconds! Not bad for a website that still hasn't launched. And to be honest, this is what I wanted to talk about today...
We agree that m2e is boring.
We also agree that we need to bring the improvements online ASAP.
However we also want to make this website stable. Yesterday, for example, the website suddenly froze. Why? Well, it seems that all the load was on one server (we have 3) and some coding had not been optimised. We found this, fixed it and hopefully you are not experiencing any problems with speed. That fixed, we noticed that an admin based counter has stopped working properly. We need this more in the Beta website than here, so it won't affect you too much.
So the improvements we are making are centred more on the Admin features just now: getting the engine "souped" up a bit

We've also started looking at leased line options today, upgrading the RAM to *** per server and even adding more processors.
So here is our schedule:
1. Optimise the database coding
2. Improve the server performance
3. Start to change the front-end
4. Build the new Beta features for the members' area
5. Test, monitor and fix as we go
6. Introduce the main graphics engine for the "FULL" website
7. Open up the m2e advertising & business member channels
Now we want to achieve all this over the next 6 to 8 weeks. OK, it's a little slower than we wanted, but with 158,000 members after 6 weeks the team know we have to get this perfect to ensure growth this year beyond 5m people.
Oh, sorry about the slow-down in news updates this week. We've done a little internal re-organisation, hired new lawyers and been training our customer care people.
Have a great weekend!