Re:Ravelry - a very successful deployment of Ruby and Rails
by petercooper on Thursday September 03, 2009 @06:03PM
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My wife knew about this site, and she tells me that for a long time growth was somewhat hampered by their inability to scale. They had to manually allow users into the site in chunks
It wouldn't surprise me if that "whoa, it's so busy that we have to queue to get in" factor actually contributed to its final success. I've seen it before with other apps. The "it's not really a big secret but it sorta is" beta of Stack Overflow was a little like that too. People wanna get into things they "can't" get into.
It wouldn't surprise me if that "whoa, it's so busy that we have to queue to get in" factor actually contributed to its final success. I've seen it before with other apps. The "it's not really a big secret but it sorta is" beta of Stack Overflow was a little like that too. People wanna get into things they "can't" get into.