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QueensSpeech on Twitter
July 25, 2009 – 4:02 am
Share Gay News
February 23, 2009 – 6:16 pm
We have just added a new feature that will allow you bookmark, share or email almost any story in the QueensSpeech publishing network.
Underneath every story you will see either a ’share’ or ‘email’ button. Simply select either button and you will be able to re-publish the story on your own Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo Buzz, [...]
Gay News, Politics and Gossip shortlist added to QueensSpeech
February 15, 2009 – 1:25 pm
The QueensSpeech editorial team has been busy over the weekend finding and reviewing some great new sources of news, politics, entertainment and gossip. After much debate we shortlisted around 40 sites and blogs that offered the best and most original content.
The shortlist has now been added to the QueensSpeech index and you should start to [...]
Caching Phase II Launched
July 6, 2008 – 4:52 pm
Finally, we’ve successfully rolled out Caching Phase II. Although we were happy with the speed increase introduced with the first phase of the caching engine, we still were experiencing slow load times with the popular tags module. This was particularly bad on the homepage where we display popular tags from the last seven days. Since [...]
Caching now enabled
June 7, 2008 – 5:56 pm
We have now activated a simple caching engine on the homepage and all other pages featuring ‘most read’ and tagged content. Over the last few weeks we’ve seen a continued increase in load on our servers due to an rapid increase in visitor count. This, unfortunately on some days, caused QueensSpeech.com to slow down to [...]
New tagging engine now available on QueensSpeech.com
June 2, 2008 – 12:58 pm
We’ve quietly rolled out a simple but powerful tagging feature on all aggregated stories. Every time a new story is found and published, we evaluate the content and then look to identify appropriate tags (Wikipedia definition) to attach to the story. This helps create contextual relationships between similar stories by using one or more keywords [...]
QueensSpeech Server Performance Boosted
April 29, 2008 – 4:49 pm
Following yesterday’s rather large traffic day, we have permanently upgraded the capacity of our main hosting environment. Our traffic has been progressively increasing, but yesterdays’ surge caught us by surprise. Therefore we have taken the decision to add new new hardware to cope with this increased demand.
Dramatic increase in traffic affecting servers
April 28, 2008 – 6:55 pm
We are currently experiencing extremely high traffic on our main hosting server - which is causing a slow down to page load times. We have doubled the capacity of the server this evening and are now looking into optimising the database even further. Please bear with us.
[Update] We have removed several intensive database queries off [...]
Latest stats from QueensSpeech.com…
March 8, 2008 – 2:36 pm
This week we passed the 30,000 articles mark! - the number of individual stories we are tracking across the QueensSpeech social publishing network. To support this increased number, our in-house analytics application is now tracking over 770,000 events relating to those articles.
I’ll be spending the next few days re-optimising the caching system used on our [...]
Searching… and traffic jams
February 1, 2008 – 7:38 pm
This week we’ve added the search bar (top right of the screen), this will allow you to search through the 18,000 stories on QueensSpeech, and growing daily. We hope that you will be able to utilise this vast resource of news, views opinion, gossip and much more to find stories of interest to you.
We are [...]