After a long wait, Tagalus has been completely rewritten from scratch. Originally, the code was written from scratch (no framework) in PHP. The code was somewhat buggy (hey, we warned you it was beta); apparently, users were experiencing sporadic errors when trying to add tags from the web interface, although adding from Twitter seemed to work fine.
The new version of Tagalus was written in Ruby with the Rails framework. #RoR and the MVC framework turns out to be a very logical way to store tags, definitions, and comments, plus the abstraction from the database layer will mean less errors when dealing with parsing and sanitization of user input.
Another benefit of the rewrite is it’s now easier to add features on the developer end. This means that users will see more features soon, including an API for grabbing tags and definitions.
For now, head over to the site and start defining some tags!