Amatomu one of South Africa’s blog aggregators has just been taken out of Alpha phase to Beta.
I spotted this just a few minutes ago after checking some stats and suddenly getting a error page. Maybe this can contribute to the fact that my blogs have been losing some ranking due to the fact that the rss feeds haven’t been updating, some even behind with as much as 4 days.
Amatomu is not my favourite blog aggregator due to the fact that it has allot of issues with the site and at times speed is slow making pages load forever. Afrigator on the other hand has a more better algorithm for sorting blog ranks.
I must still investigate whats new in the Beta version of Amatomu, but now again the site has almost no response and giving database errors, this could be due to the fact that they are upgrading the system. Lets just hope for a better ranking algorithm to match that Afrigator has.
Hi Kloon
You picked the change up before anyone else
And I’m glad to see that Amatomu picked your post up really quickly too.
We actually went live with the Beta a bit prematurely – there are still some rough edges and we’ll need to tune the server for the new site.
Most of the major changes won’t be noticeable at first glance – completely live stats, much faster hit catcher (300ms on average), and we’re reading RSS feeds about once an hour instead of once a day. Basically everything is live now – we used to cache Amatomu for about 60 minutes to get it to survive at all.
I’ll be posting a much more detailed list of the changes on Amatomu shortly.
J
Thanks for the update Jason, wil make a post about all the new features during next week once everything is up and running.