As some of you may have noticed, feedlr has the problem of sporadically repeating posts and it’s been happening more often recently. This bug is due to some mysterious errors that somehow skip my try/catch blocks and throw tons of stacktraces in the logs. Also due to the problem of there being too much noise in the logs from Grails and the lack of spare time I have lately, it’s been quite a pain for me to track down and eradicate this problem. And I feel very sorry for the users who have suffered from repeated posts.
The current implementation of feedlr is a result of the resource limitations of the server where it’s hosted, which is an everlasting problem for the Grails service. So I’ve always wanted to thoroughly refactor the code and find a better hosting service. With the problem of repeated posts aggravating, I’ve decided to temporarily suspend the current feedlr service while I migrate the whole site to Google App Engine, which means a rewrite of the existing code in Python.
This complete refactory (or rather, rewrite) won’t be completed very soon but I’ll make it happen as soon as I can. Meanwhile, I’ll keep this blog updated. Thank you very much for using feedlr and let’s meet again later on Google App Engine!
I recently realized that I’ve been tossing my articles all over the place, which has become hard to manage. So I consolidated them to my personal blog, and will from now on use that as the only prominent place for dumping my geeky mind, including all things about Grails and Groovy. Only stuff related to Feedlr itself will be published here. Please pay a visit to my place and hope you like it.
而我们的互联网,其实和整个社会一样,是个浮躁浅薄的地方。只要这样的状态不改变,这里不会真正有中国的google,中国的facebook,当然也不会有中国的TechCrunch,更不可能出现Y Combinator。有的只能是C2C(Copy To China),只能是忽悠了钱走人的MBA,还有拿个ecshop几分钟搭个网店就认为是互联网创业的青年。
一不小心就说了那么长一通,其实我打算写这篇文章是想感谢一下分享web2.0的盗盗同学,把feedlr提名为“2008 最值得关注的15个 China Web2.0 Startup”。和那些我很喜欢和尊敬的web2.0项目摆在一起,其实颇不好意思。话说我差不多也有半年没有改进feedlr了。我希望的只是feedlr能继续对人们有用。在feedlr之后的时间里,我其实放弃了一些hardcore geek的想法,认真尝试了中文互联网创业的方式,为钱做过了妥协,圈了几十万的用户,也有日pv一百几十万的成果。但是在2008年即将过去的时候回头看看,还是feedlr为我带来了最多的快乐。