Over the weekend, we pushed a few updates to GoSoapBox.
Integration with Amazon Elasticache
Amazon Elasticache is a distributed in-memory cache environment. We are using the service to reduce database load, which has been our primary bottleneck. There may be a few bugs yet to work out, but our initial testing indicates that everything is working the way it should be.
Bug Fixes
Two weeks ago, you may have noticed that the comment reply bubble disappeared from the Social Q&A feature. We had to temporarily disable the script that figures out how many replies a Question has received. But that’s all sorted out now and the bubble is back where it should be.
Social Q&A Quick Manage Buttons
Next to each audience-submitted question in Social Q&A are two “quick-manage” buttons. We call them quick-manage because, prior to their existence, you had to click into a question and then find the “Remove This” link from that page. Quick-manage buttons were added to reduce the number of clicks, but it still meant a page reload, which can take a few seconds if you are on a slower data connection.
We’ve taken this a step further by making the Social Q&A buttons work without a page reload being necessary. The next you click one of those buttons, the question will gray-out and then disappear a moment later. It’s like magic!
The same kind of no-refresh-necessary behavior will be coming soon for quick-manage buttons on other features, so stay tuned.