Thanks to Chris
If there's one thing I hate it's "corporate HR" emails, those icky coded messages about comings and goings. Did that guy quit? Was he fired? Is he leaving for the competition? Was he caught behind a fica plant with the CFO's niece? Meet me in my cubicle and I'll give you the scoop!
The scoop is that Chris no longer works for LibraryThing. He wrote about it on his own blog, Aspiring CTO. I disagree with much said there, particularly the idea that I don't like him. But I can't stand up for users tagging however they like and deny that everyone sees things the way they see them.
As he writes, he loved LibraryThing, and did a lot for it. Most notably he architected and implemented the transition to a scalable server and database structure. The traffic data below, taken from our stats program, is a trophy of sorts to that:
Chris did everything from July on. And during that period, server problems actually went down. And Chris did a number of other valuable projects. When I finish the user-interface, I think he will be best remembered for his elegant LiveJournal-friendly widget.
So, my thanks to Chris for the work he did for LibraryThing. I wish him the best in his future plans. PillHelp in particular seems likely to take off. Since more people take pills than want to catalog their books, I suspect he'll have some even more challenging scaling issues to deal with.
Members saw his post and started thanking him on Talk. Go ahead and leave comments here or there.
*November is in some metrics higher than December because we got Slashdotted, producing a gigantic two-three-day wave that didn't last. The underlying fundamentals—users, books in system, money—have continued their accelerating acceleration.
The scoop is that Chris no longer works for LibraryThing. He wrote about it on his own blog, Aspiring CTO. I disagree with much said there, particularly the idea that I don't like him. But I can't stand up for users tagging however they like and deny that everyone sees things the way they see them.
As he writes, he loved LibraryThing, and did a lot for it. Most notably he architected and implemented the transition to a scalable server and database structure. The traffic data below, taken from our stats program, is a trophy of sorts to that:
Chris did everything from July on. And during that period, server problems actually went down. And Chris did a number of other valuable projects. When I finish the user-interface, I think he will be best remembered for his elegant LiveJournal-friendly widget.
So, my thanks to Chris for the work he did for LibraryThing. I wish him the best in his future plans. PillHelp in particular seems likely to take off. Since more people take pills than want to catalog their books, I suspect he'll have some even more challenging scaling issues to deal with.
Members saw his post and started thanking him on Talk. Go ahead and leave comments here or there.
*November is in some metrics higher than December because we got Slashdotted, producing a gigantic two-three-day wave that didn't last. The underlying fundamentals—users, books in system, money—have continued their accelerating acceleration.
posted by Tim at 12:14 PM
6 Comments:
Sorry to hear of this not so happy news. I appreciate your openness in linking to his not-so-positive blog entry. That takes courage.
It'd be neat to know what all those colored bars represent and what numbers they correspond to on the Chris trophy.
Sorry that your hiring frenzy will have to be even more frenzied than planned.
Is it a coincidence that the LJ blog widget has stopped working?
Thanks for the explanation, Chris!
Could you post that graph every month, Tim?
I wondered why LT staff had seemed so much less present in the Groups and so much less responsive in general over the last few weeks.
Guess i know now. Hope it improves; it's driving me crazy.
--A
But I can't stand up for users tagging however they like and deny that everyone sees things the way they see them.
That has to be one of the single coolest "boss" things I have ever read. There are so many reasons to love LT, and here is one more.
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