I’ve just updated the ‘My Galaxies’ section of the Galaxy Zoo site. Significantly you can now see all of the favourites that you have added in order of most recent first. I’ve also added a history of your galaxies (but not what classification you made yet!) I’m pleased to say that the [...]
The ‘Favourites’ feature in the new Galaxy Zoo; seems to have been rather popular in the site’s first week of existence.Everyone will have their own reasons for pressing the ‘Favourite galaxy’ button; whether it’s a galaxy to follow up on the forum, or to enjoy later. In any case, we present the first in a [...]
I wrote the following on my personal blog yesterday, but I thought you’d like a flavour of the first day of the Zoo.
It’s been 19 months since the launch of the original Galaxy Zoo. That week was ridiculous – my main memory is of incredulous laughter as the number of users and classifications climbed [...]
As some of you may already know I’m relatively new to the Galaxy Zoo team having joined in January. One of the main reasons I was brought on board the team was to help plan and implement a more scalable web architecture for the future.
Galaxy Zoo 2 launched on Tuesday and was our first live [...]
This morning we’ve added back in the ‘My Galaxies’ feature to the Zoo 2 site. The ‘My Galaxies’ page increases significantly the load on our servers and so we had to disable it very soon after launch due to the sheer number of people coming to the site. So that we can reintroduce ‘My Galaxies’ [...]
This is my first Galaxy Zoo blog posting and being one of the oldest members of the team (42!) I’m a bit lost with this new technology – sign of old age. Galaxy Zoo 2 was launched only a few days ago and Chris L rang me this morning to tell me we already have [...]
Some of you may have noticed that we had some unscheduled downtime this evening. At about 18:40 our database server failed and due to the sheer number of classifications that you have all been making it took significantly longer than expected to restore the database from backup. I can assure you that we [...]
It’s been quite a day. I think – despite slowness at times – we’ve just about survived the onslaught so far. We’ll see what happens tomorrow – I don’t think we’re quite over the peak yet. The great thing about that is that the sheer levels of enthusiasm for the project, for the galaxies and [...]
So Zoo 2 is live and we’re VERY busy at the moment – working on making things faster now….
As promised, back almost straight away…