Backend Upgrade and New Server Listing
Summary
Mr. Anoop's server announces a backend upgrade and ongoing audits to fix occasional website outages. A new server listing is nearly ready with speed and memory optimizations and screenshots shared. Content-rich servers and threads will rank higher for relevant searches and the team will test UI changes to encourage reading over image-first clicks.
Quick update on what we are working on
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Backend upgrade: we continue to see occasional outages on the website part. We are auditing all of our processes and continue to optimize them. This might take a while!
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New server listing: Almost done! But we are working to optimize speed and memory usage before releasing it. Please find attached some screenshots. One of the biggest winners among the new server listing pages will be content-rich servers. This means that if a user is searching for Minecraft SMP and you have a thread about it, your rank will be higher, and the thread content will be shown to the member. (The thread will have explicit permissions from both you and the OP).
After the new backend algo change, we will start testing different UI designs to enourage users to read what you do, rather than clicking based on images and banners.
