Hurrah! The API is up and running and looking reasonably fast now. Over the past few days Matt, TomH and Firefishy have been working their asses off. They always planned to have a busy weekend of server watching, but this turned into a four day migration job followed by an intense period of poking the servers to figure out what exactly was slowing things down. It's no exaggeration to say they've been depriving themselves of sleep!

The new Recent Changes display is looking spectacular (see those map edits rolling in!) and the 'history' tab and 'my edits' page are starting to give everyone more monitoring power, which is what the changeset features are all about. I was involved in developing these bits, so it's great to see them up and running. These visible new features are proving popular, but the vast bulk of the improvement work has taken place in the database back-end and API. It really has been a complete restructuring. Also the changeset displays at the moment are really just the tip of the iceberg of what's possible. I'm sure we'll see enhancements to them over the coming months to make them even more powerful as monitoring tools.

phew!

It probably wasn't such a good idea to have a mapping party arranged so soon after all this action. TomH, Firefishy, and Matt probably just need to chill out for a bit, but no! ....API's working ...Must map!

Mapping party TONIGHT in Oxford Street. Come along!

That's a new wiki page for the summer! A new wiki page... a new API... a new era.

I've drawn another slightly whacky cake diagram: