The site has been around for a little while now and it's been going pretty well!  The thing is, I keep finding stuff to tweak here and there on the site.  It's a good thing though because with each iteration, the site gets better and better.

For example, looking at the frontpage, the most important thing is probably the most understated thing on the page.  That thing is the site-wide top games.  That little section on the side with the top 10 games.  I think it's a big deal and it's pretty much the entire point of the site, yet it's just kinda thrown to the side with no emphasis.  So I'll be redoing that and making it the really cool part of the site that it should be.  I think I'll also put in some delta values, so you can see what games are moving up or down as people write comparisons.

Looks like I gotta do it.  For a while, the site has been running slow.  Even after my tweaking, it just won't run very fast.  On average, it seems to take 3+ seconds to load the frontpage, which is just way too long.

I just picked up VPS hosting at netdepot.com and will be giving them a go for a little while.  It will be nice to have my own machine where I can install whatever I like.  It will also be nice to have the website and the db on the same machine and avoid extra delays from data transfers.  I used to have mediatemple gridservice, which was actually pretty good.  It's just that the page load delays were just way too long.

It's tricky truncating text that has html tags in it.  If you truncate before any html tag is closed, it can really mess stuff up.  For example, if someone writes their entire entry in bold (strong tag surrounds everything), but I truncate it for display before I render it on the front page, then in Firefox, everything after that will be bolded because of the unclosed strong tag.

So, what you should really do is strip out all html first, then truncate the text.  That way you won't have to deal with unclosed tags and all that stuff.