Over the past few months, our main focus was to make significant improvements to the website. With my having completed the performance optimizations, and Vance finishing up some of the last known bugs before Christmas, our focus is going to shift to other areas.
- Chris's primary goal is going to be identifying why the pool is not pulling in traffic for search terms like "scrypt mining pool," and figuring out ways to draw in more customers through other means. Our previous poll of customers stated that the #1 deficiency of the system was the website, so now that we've resolved most website issues, we need to figure out why this resolution has not yielded the expected increase.
- I will be starting an investigation into why some customers report low profitability for some algorithms periodically. To do that, I'm going to spend two weeks creating a new timeline tool that Chris and others can use to determine exactly what the state of mining is at any given millisecond. He'll be able to turn on the recording for a few minutes to collect data, and then look through it to see whether the system's components react to events as we designed them to do. Once we have the data, we'll be able to fix any identified issues.
- Vance is going to continue to work on new features for customers, such as providing more PPLNS data, while Steven continues to optimize our exchanges and payouts code.