> disabling clustering (i.e., setting Q=N=1) Let’s start with this one, because it’s about installation process. To set q=1 you should install Couch manually. Built-in installer sets up q=8 for single node setup.
Compared to Futon, Fauxton is at least uncomfortable. There are two obvious accountable metrics: 1) how many clicks you need to do this or that, 2) how far you need to move mouse to make next click in a logical sequence of actions. Also, as for our experience, protecting Couch admin from administering by hard-disabling write for some _config/*/* endpoints, is a mistake. This kind of role separation isn’t reasonable for single-node scenario (which often is ‘I gonna make something small’). As for stability – unfortunately 2.x bites without notice, patterns are hard to grasp. However, there are at least two: unpredictable RAM footprint, and also unpredictable recoverability after crash. Also 2.x tends to eat disk space slowly (spams in _local docs, sometimes creating strange things like this http://ermouth.com/dl/couch_local_doc_dupes.png). Best regards, ermouth
