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mlkshk
San Francisco
Makin' shakes daily.
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Lengthy Maintenance Tonight
Tonight at 12:00am ET we will be doing some maintenance on the database. This should not only fix the problems we were experiencing last week, but also speed up the site in general. The site will be slow. You might also experience problems trying to delete files. I am not... Continue reading
Posted May 23, 2013 at My Blog
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MLKSHK Is Offline
We are experiencing HEAVY database load due to an unknown problem. More info as we get it. The database is currently clearing up, we just have to give it a bit more time. Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2013 at mlkshk
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Instability
This weekend MLKSHK was pretty unstable. It started with a small issue of log files getting too big (since fixed) but then coincidentally we got slammed by some very popular forum hot-linking to 50 files at once AND RabbitMQ deciding to completely stop working. This meant SLOW buttons* and 500... Continue reading
Posted Jan 28, 2013 at mlkshk
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WHY I LOVE MLKSHK - and you can too!
A guest post by tonyb It just so happens that I love MLKSHK. I love reading it - I love contributing to it. It’s my go-to tool when looking for that special animated .GIF, and it’s the last-funny-thing I read before going to bed. In return, MLKSHK seems to love... Continue reading
Posted Mar 14, 2012 at mlkshk
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Top Files By Likes
[Andy mentioned something](https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/152859753188560896) about Imgur’s most popular files based on views, so I figured I could find something for MLKSHK. So here are the top 20 files from this year based on number of likes received. Note that the first one was our full-page ad in Longshot Magazine that the... Continue reading
Posted Dec 30, 2011 at mlkshk
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Yesterday’s Outage
So I had a problem yesterday where EC2 restarted all of my servers. They all came back except one which I rely heavily on for serving pages. Normally there would be two machines there, which is why when this sort of thing happened in the past nobody really noticed. It... Continue reading
Posted Dec 13, 2011 at mlkshk
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MLKSHK’s Ingredients
I mentioned on Twitter the other night about a hiccup we had on our server and someone asked if I could give a high-level view of what makes MLKSHK go. First, we use the [Tornado](http://tornadoweb.org/) framework. It is fast, simple to learn, and best of all: non-blocking. The architecture for... Continue reading
Posted Nov 18, 2011 at mlkshk
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Early Morning Outage
…And How You Can Help We had some downtime this morning after a maintenance process got out of hand and choked the database server. Because of this the front-end servers couldn’t serve content and backed up a lot of processes. I was able to get the site back to normal... Continue reading
Posted Oct 24, 2011 at mlkshk
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State of the Shake
Hey! Another one. Let’s see: 1. DNS outage this week: bad. New DNS server coming: good! That was unpleasant, but it was partly our service’s mistake, partly my own dumb mistake for setting the TTLs (time to live) so low. You can think of TTLs as a note to your... Continue reading
Posted Sep 29, 2011 at mlkshk
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DNS Provider Outage (We’re back!)
Our DNS provider has gone offline. We can‘t even reach their admin console. You can hit MLKSHK with this IP address: http://50.19.100.254/ We‘re very sorry for this. I don‘t have an ETA yet but will keep you updated. All systems are back to normal. I updated Twitter and my personal... Continue reading
Posted Sep 26, 2011 at mlkshk
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State of the Shake
Hi Friends! It’s been a while since we’ve posted, for that we apologize. We’ve been extremely busy the past month and a half as we had to return to consulting to pay some of the bills. MLKSHK saw a tremendous amount of growth and traffic last month. Over 1 million... Continue reading
Posted Sep 10, 2011 at mlkshk
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Jun 29, 2011
State of the Shake
Here’s what we did last week. * Yearly subscriptions. * Significantly sped up page loading by generating summaries of counts. In short: perma-link pages went from 100ms to 20ms to load. What this also means is we can now present total views/likes/saves on your files. We’re doing that this week.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 27, 2011 at mlkshk
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You Can Help Us
MLKSHK is a community that’s about sharing images and video for fun. It’s not Yet Another Photo Sharing Service, though of course you’re welcome to do that here, too. This post is about us, where we’re at, and how we need your help. MLKSHK actually got its start about a... Continue reading
Posted Jun 21, 2011 at mlkshk
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State of the Shake
Here's what we did last week: * Move friends to the front page, removing the dashboard view. * Ask to join shake. With all the notifications and messaging. * NSFW Flag and hiding * Deleting comments. Here's what we're doing this week: * Yearly subscriptions. * Counts! Counts! Counts! Views,... Continue reading
Posted Jun 20, 2011 at mlkshk
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The NSFW Flag
Posted Jun 17, 2011 at mlkshk
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State of the Shake
Here’s what we did and fixed last week: * Likes are duplicated on your favorites view due to last week’s likes modification. * You can’t follow your own group shakes so you miss out on contributions. * If you’re a paid subscriber you’re going to be able to create 10... Continue reading
Posted Jun 13, 2011 at mlkshk
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Weekly MLKSHK Roadmap
One of the things about having such a small team yet and trying to be as responsive as possible to users is that sometimes we have to push neat features and projects aside to take care of some important issues. This weekend and last week a couple came to light... Continue reading
Posted Jun 6, 2011 at mlkshk
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ShakeKit for Mac OSX and iOS
We’re very happy to finally be able to tell you that Justin Williams of Second Gear Software has made an Objective-C wrapper for MLKSHK. Here it is on Github: carpeaqua/ShakeKit. We’re not very good Objective-C developers, in fact we’re probably terrible, but we can troubleshoot server-side API issues you might... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2011 at mlkshk
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State of the Site
Hey there, now that we’re live and slowly getting back to normal we wanted to write down a list (in no particular order) of what we’re working on and what we’re researching to see if we can get it done. We may not do all of these, but they are... Continue reading
Posted May 30, 2011 at mlkshk
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Where We Are
Hi, I just wanted to quickly leave a note about where we were these days. We have three things in process and one thing out there on the horizon. 1. Shakes. It's been a long road but we're nearing the end of that project. The ability to create group shakes... Continue reading
Posted Apr 14, 2011 at mlkshk
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We're Close!
Hi Everyone, We've been quiet the last couple of weeks because we have one big push going on right now to complete the last piece of MLKSHK that will allow us to open up the doors for everyone. It's a tricky piece and we've been putting all our time into... Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2011 at mlkshk
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mlkshk is now following nataliepo
Feb 22, 2011
This is done!
Commented Feb 18, 2011 on The Need For Speed at mlkshk
The Need For Speed
We at MLKSHK headquarters finally arrived at a milestone where we felt comfortable handing out some invitations. If you were among the first 300 people who were visited by the Invitation Viking yesterday morning you saw three invitations in your inbox to share with friends. If you don't see any, ...
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Feb 18, 2011
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