Viral Channels: Hi5 Changes Notification Handling Due to Performance Issues

As many developers have noticed over the last week, the Hi5 Platform has been suffering repeated downtime. As the Hi5 team shared in a blog post last night, the source of the problem was a technical issue related to the way Hi5 was processing notifications. As a result, Hi5 for a brief period turned off all platform notifications. As Paul Lindner, architect of the Hi5 Platform, wrote:

We underestimated the amount of notifications sent, and the popularity of their use on the site. 

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