Hi everyone!
Just a few days left and it's Christmas, the time of the year you spend with family, friends and... browsing the new & improved Mininova ;)
As you may have noticed, the site has undergone huge changes. We moved the site to a new hoster and datacenter, which will drastically improve performance. The search backend of the site has also been rewritten, resulting in a faster (and hopefully better) search experience.
After months of development and testing, we're also introducing a new layout for Mininova. Extra functionality has been added and existing features are easier to use now. For example the "Jump to category" drop down box will help you quickly go to your favorite section, but also quite a few other cool but subtle features have been added.
This doesn't mean the site is perfect now. In fact, we're quite sure there are still some bugs & errors left, which we didn't spot. In case you do, please let us know, and we'll be happy to fix them! Same counts for the layout: please let us know your ideas to improve the layout.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you!
Thanks for using Mininova.
Hi all!
We received quite some complaints from users lately that the site was very slow. In order to fix this we just placed an extra search server and upgraded an existing webserver (apparently, one of its hard drives died, so read/write operations were very slow).
As a result, everything should run smoother than ever now! In the case that you spot some bugs or performance issues, please let us know.
Cya!
Update Oct 2: We added 2G RAM to one of the search servers, this should improve the overall site performance.