Things are going steady forward with Quomon. It’s great to see people are using it more and more, we’re indexed VERY well in google and get high percentage of traffic there and we keep tweaking the site to make it better.

A new version was uploaded this weekend and I want to comment on a few of the changes.

- The RSS feeds have been tweaked a little. First of all they weren’t parsed as they should, so linebreaks were missing and links as well. But we also adapted the feed so that RSS Bandit reads the link as it should. This is actually not our fault, but for some reason RSS Bandit interprets the GUID of the RSS feed to be the url instead of the LINK. This is wrong according to the RSS 2.0 standard, but I’d rather have my users read the link well, than wait until RSS Bandit gets updated.

- Another change is that now the similar questions showing up if you ask a new question (using AJAX) take spelling mistakes into account. For this we’re using the dotlucene.net framework, which indexes and searches text extremely fast and has a huge variety of ways to search. It uses fuzzy logic, i.e. the Levenstein distance to match similar words.

- We also implemented links as hyperlinks in the text via the [url] [/url] that is also used in phpBB forums. This was interesting since I had to figure out the Regular Expression to parse the link which meant using Regex.Replace with groups in the regular expression and a MatchEvaluator delegate to handle the replacement.

That were the major changes, I’d better continue work on the rest of our todo-list.