MochiBot Blog

Sorry for the unresponsive site as of late, but we’re still recovering from the database crash last week. We’ve been growing a lot in both users and traffic so we’re making a few changes to the system to accommodate this growth. In the past week we’ve been faced with several tough decisions on how to best serve our existing members. Ultimately system performance and reliability is the key to our success so we decided to remove “unique viewers” data from the reports since they consume the greatest amount of resources in data processing. Our decision stemmed from a recent survey of our members which indicated that “uniques” data was not as important as having a fast site and quick reports.

For those of you who do consume the “uniques” data we intend on bringing the data back in the future as a premium service. We eventually have to charge for something in the future so this will be our first step in implementing a premium membership. No milestones have been set as to when the premium membership will launch, but we’ll start making plans once these fixes are complete.

The new changes to the system will be finished by the end of the week August 4 soon :-|. We’ll make an announcement once everything is tested and back in order. With the removal of “uniques” data the system will perform much more reliably and quickly. We’re working hard to provide the community with a quality service so we hope this compromise improves your experience with MochiBot.

We take all your feedback into consideration as we grow so please keep all those emails coming. Please send your emails to feedback@mochibot.com.

The site and reports are running slow right now because we experienced an unfortunate database crash yesterday. Luckily we’re running two databases and have lots of backups so we’re busy today putting things back together. It’s going to take another day or two to get the new database up and running so please be patient while the site is a bit slow.

MochiBot will continue to track all of your stats and traffic during this time, but it’s just going to take a couple days to process the data while we work on the system.

Thanks for your patience!

The guys at varSTUDIOS just released new game at Crazy Monkey Games. Neon puts a new twist on the classic Asteroids game by adding a multitude of enemies and some cool powerups. The game is very well designed and uses some of the new Flash 8 features quite nicely.

Neon was just release several days ago and is already climbing our charts.

Great job guys!