The Oracle Mix Blog

A quick note on yesterday's failed deployment:

We ran into a few issues during the deployment process. Mix went down, and we had to revert back to the previous release.

When we brought the site back up after about 45 minutes total down time, we then discovered that somewhere along the way we had lost the folder containing our profile images (for both people and groups).

We were quickly able to restore the images from our backup. However, about half a dozen profile images had been lost permanently. Apologies for that. We have notified the affected Mix members.

We are looking into ways to prevent this from happening in the future.

Things should be back to normal now. Please let us know if you still spot any errors or abnormal behavior on Mix. Thanks!

As mentioned a while ago, we're looking at a few key performance metrics to tell us how we're doing with Mix.

We'll start sharing them here on a regular basis (most likely weekly or bi-weekly) so you can follow along:

• Registered users: 41,096
• Active users (30-day): 4,808 (11.7%)
• Page views (30-day): 71,725
• Twitter followers: 787

Mix is growing at a rate of about one percent per week. Our 30-day active user numbers hover around ten percent. Traffic is pretty stable as well.

We still have to roll out a couple of key features that we expect will drive activity quite a bit (content embedding and "message to all group members" capability for group admins).