They probably invest the membership fees into better and more powerful hardware as the user base and content continues to grow by leaps and bounds and also into paying developers to work on software that supports multiple languages, countries, timezones and all this varying content and a user base that grows by leaps and bounds.
One of their employee’s posted a note about testing and tuning performance of the system today in preparation for the upcoming weekend. That reassures me that they know what’s happening and where the overall priorities lie.
They’ve actually mentioned it on many occasions that pocket queries are not interactive functionality. They are “batch”. In the world of computers, batch means you don’t get it right away.
I ran a new pocket query this afternoon and the email came across only a couple minutes after I ran it. Did you know that if you delete your old query and create a new one that it has a higher priority in their batch queue?
They obviously have issues with the whole site when new updates go in. PQ’s are probably no different. I give them the benefit of the doubt. When you start to think about the site and all it does and you have a technical background you realize that it’s no small feat just to keep that beast up and running for all of us.
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