To: SI Bob who wrote (10243 ) 11/18/1999 2:06:00 AM From: zonkie Read Replies (3) | Respond to
We were warned but it doesn't mean we have to like it even if we do have to accept it. The slowness and errors are the blame of the beta test site. What percentage of our members do you think would vote to throw the beta site out if it would make classic work like it did in the old days? I bet the number would be over 85 or 90%.spend a little extra effort giving us some feedback. Of course, you can communicate with us for any reason at any time. For the beta test, we are especially interested in hearing from you: A – About bugs. If you click on something and it doesn't work right, or one of the new features is confusing, or something about the site is just – well – bugging you, then please let us know right away. There will be special instructions on the beta site introduction page telling you where to send your bug reports. B – About your overall impressions. Please tell us what you think of the new site. We didn't do this because we just felt like working really hard. We did it because we wanted to deliver an even better product to you. What should you expect? For starters, you'll find a dramatically different user interface, especially in terms of colors, headers and integration of certain features. It'll be different than what you're currently used to, but our primary objective was to make the site simple and intuitive to use. When you look at a page, if you're confused, then let us know because it means we didn't achieve our goal. We've also added a handful of new features, like the IQC.com charts (Yea!), the ability to turn off the original subject post, the ability to display multiple message on the page at one time (a member's only feature) and a few others. We'll provide more details on the beta site introduction page. Heads up – i.e. IMPORTANT! Finally, I wanted to tell you now, and we'll tell you again, that the beta site has not been optimized for performance. In fact, it will mostly likely be slow – probably very slow – because it'll be running in our beta environment, not our production environment. Don't worry, we'll speed it up when it goes into production – promise. It'll also break occasionally – perhaps frequently. You'll get ugly messages like GSP Error and Server Problems and GLOBAL MELTDOWN (OK, perhaps a little exaggeration on the last one). If you get these errors, please tell us where and when they happen, but chances are, they occurred because we were temporarily working on that particular section of the site. That's all for now. Keep your eyes peeled for the beta site link on the home page. Here is some feedback..........throw the beta site in the wastecan. Put whatever changes the members like into classic but don't even do that if it is going to ruin SI for another 5 months.
