#168 - Performance As A Priority

#168

                March 25, 2024

            #168 - Performance As A Priority

                A change in the 2024 Roadmap, a Book Clubs sneak peek, and an old recommendation and some fun throwbacks! 😁

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#168 | 25 March 2024

Performance As A Priority

Anybody remember the high level 2024 roadmap I shared six weeks ago?

Yeah, well...there's been a change of plan over at StoryGraph HQ. 👀

Instead of delaying Performance and Polish until the latter half of the year, we want to make it a focus for April.

There are just certain things we're tired of putting off and we want to prioritise being able to support several thousands of concurrent users and having every single page load fast. We don't want to have a repeat of the first two weeks of the year any time soon! 

I'm excited to finally dedicate time to this work, but first...

Since last time...

...Book Clubs!

No, they're not out yet. But I've still got a week to go before March is over and I miss my fourth self-imposed deadline on this! 😅

In the meantime, here are some sneak peek screenshots for ya:

Lemme test the Block feature with Abbie... 🤭

We've been pushing how far we can delay push notifications...book clubs is really pushing it... 😅

Two more dropdown options to come:

Leaderboard (Can you guess what that is?) and Forum! ✨

Next two weeks

I'll be finishing off Book Clubs, completing the public pages, with sort and filter options, for Readalongs and Buddy Reads, and then getting started with the performance stuff I mentioned at the top of this issue! 🤞🏾

What I'm reading

I've started Long Division by Kiese Laymon. I've owned this book for almost four years as it was one of the first recommendations from V1 of Rob's recommendation algorithm, back when the feature was called Ordered For You (Fun throwbacks those links are!). Who remembers those days?!

Have a great week,

Nadia

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