WordPress.com ups the Gears with Turbo

WordPress.com users, have you noticed a Turbo link on your admin console today? Wonder what it does? It aims to make your blogging experience much faster. During peak periods server response from WordPress.com  was sometimes (understandably) sluggish. WordPress.com added the Turbo feature to give users a more responsive blogging experience.

Here’s how the WordPress.com team sells it:

The speed increase is most noticeable when Internet is slow or on high latency and makes everybody’s blogging experience more enjoyable.

Turbo uses Google Gears to save down hundreds of files to your computer from WordPress.com when you install it. These files support you blogging on your own computer. When you are ready to save your posts, Gears kicks in and does all the dirty work, sending your post to the WordPress.com server seamlessly.

Adding an offline editing feature like Turbo to WordPress.com is a great idea. Imagine the server hits that the WordPress.com team can avoid if they can convince a nice percentage of their users to up sticks on editing their posts on the live server and use Turbo instead.  Everyone’s blogging experience speeds up. Good news for users, great news for the WordPress.com sys admins. Of course, you’ll need to have Google Gears installed on your machine before you can use Turbo.

July 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 pm • Filed in Geekery



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