Mr. Anoop's Server: Performance and Search Update
Summary
Mr. Anoop's server announces backend and search improvements including database optimizations for thread publishing, new moderation for servers and emojis, and vastly improved emoji and server listing search. Automated tag generation and expanded category granularity will help niche communities get discovered. A new Spark redirect flow reduces spam by steering users to designated channels.
Quick update on what's been cooking this week:
- We've made some backend infrastructure changes to handle thread publishing for a number of large servers. This includes database optimizations. Everyone should see less slow time on the site.
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You don't see it, but we've added a new round of moderation for both servers and emojis.
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The biggest changes are around search for emojis and server listings. Our search was way beyond horrible for a long time; you should start seeing us surface your categories, tags, and descriptions significantly better in the next couple of days.
- Tags: A lot of people are nervous about tags. We are now generating additional, more detailed tags for your servers based on your descriptions and more. For example, if you host a lot of movies and don't mention it in the tags, we automatically add it.
- Long tail of categories: We've also implemented new systems to serve a long tail of different communities. For example, for Minecraft categories, before, we were just serving 1 category; now a user can find minecraft; minecraft-smp, minecraft-parternships, minecraft-events, minecraft-modded, minecraft-vc, minecraft-creative-mode, minecraft-competitive etc,
Going forward, we will provide more stats and info on both the emojis and the server listing page.
- One last thing, we've added a Redirect flow for Spark. Suppose that a user keeps tagging Spark and chatting on the general chat, now our Spark will direct the user to go talk in a channel that is specified by you to reduce excessive spam
**What you can do: **
- Tell us more about your server in detail. Communities have long tails, and the more specific you can be, the better we can surface your server to the right user.
- Give me permissions to see announcements and forums. Content is the modern solution to the old saying "show, don't tell". A new user is more likely to join the server if he sees the kind of conversations that you are talking about vs just hearing your descriptions.
