I’m pleased to announce that we’ve successfully upgraded Grupthink.com. In terms of the amount of code we’ve changed, this is the most significant release we’ve made since our initial launch. Yet, it is one of the least significant releases when it comes to user-facing changes. How’s that for an anticlimax!

With that said, I think you’ll be very pleased by these improvements:

• Major Performance Increases: Topics load about 5x faster, and the front page is about twice as fast as it was before. In the next few weeks we’ll be optimizing other areas.
• You can now browse all non-hidden grups at http://grupthink.com/grups/
• Code re-factoring that helps performance and code management. These changes will allow us to improve Grupthink faster. We also have another project in the works that depends on these improvements.
• Full Administrative back-end : Now, we can easily manage members and content, plus tweak many of the algortithms that keep Grupthink interesting.
• Minor UI enhancements & bug fixes

Thanks to the work that has been put into Grupthink.com over the past 5 months, we can expect many more frequent updates to come.

Please help us by reporting bugs. There a handy “Report a bug” link at the bottom of every page on Grupthink.

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