Tumblr Stalkr updates!

Latest version fixes:

  • Promotion glitches - now you can promote your Tumblr blog for free every 24 hours. All you have to do is refresh it once a day.
  • Drafts issue - I’ve put a temporary holder on this to try and prevent this issue from happening
  • History - cleaned up some issues
  • Performance - updated cache and general clean

The changes will be rolled out today.

So get checking who unfollowed you or doesn’t follow you back for free today @ ALJT Media Tumblr Stalkr

http://www.aljtmedia.com/stalkr/

Tumblr Stalkr, server upgrade and some interesting stats!

Upgrade

We are currently upgrading our servers and transferring to a new data centre. In this update period, Stalkr and the ALJT Media domain may be inaccessible. The process does not normally take longer than 12 hours. The process will start at 22:00 GMT

You will know when you are on the correct IP addresses because you will see the login option for Stalkr. For those using OpenDNS, you can use CacheCheck to ensure you are on the correct IPs.

Why the change?

We were previously hosted with Hostgator but have moved to KnownHost. Stalkr has grown to over 15,000 active daily users with 250,000+ registered users and I need to expand. I am upscaling all of my servers to accommodate for this additional bandwidth and traffic surges that we experience! Let alone, I need to give my existing databases a break - they have had it rough!

Give me some stats!

I started development for Tumblr Stalkr 4 and a half years ago when I used to have all the spare time and used Tumblr a lot myself. Since opening:

  • 276,502 registerd users
  • 15,000 active daily users
  • 2,584,212 draft posts created
  • 5,000,000+ requests made (sorry to the Tumblr API)
  • ~111 Gb of storage

As for development, my initial Stalkr prototype quickly expanded:

  • 357 LoC (lines of code) into ~16,000 lines (which is still relatively small)
  • Average memory footprint of 550Kb per-run (I like clean code)
  • Average load time and response handling of 0.8s (should be quicker soon!)

Thank you!

From me, I thank all of you for using and supporting Stalkr. Some exciting changes coming down the line, stay tuned!

There’s no such thing as a free promotion!

It is unfortunate for me to say, that Tumblr has put its stamp on this.

Don’t inject in-stream ads. Don’t offer special placement or promotion to specific Tumblr blogs or content within your app, especially for money, and don’t implement ranking systems.

Tumblr Stalkr will now not feature a promotion mechanism. Even though it was completely free, I gained no benefit from it and everyone was able to do it. Instead, I will have a bar indicating users that have recently used Stalkr (if the account gives consent) and just randomly display them. There is over 6000 active users a day, so that way I cannot be held to trying to promote specific blogs when it is a completely random system to merely shows users that have recently checked in.

I will keep every one posted. In the mean time, check who has unfollowed you, doesn’t follow you back or who you nastily don’t follow back at ALJT Media Stalkr:

http://www.aljtmedia.com/stalkr/

Tumblr Stalkr is back!

After some technical difficulties, Tumblr Stalkr is now back into operation.

Simply point yourself too:
http://www.aljtmedia.com/stalkr/

Login and then it’ll do the rest for you!

For further details please read our blog post: ALJT Media Tumblr Stalkr is getting a revamp!