Hello, I have recently invited a very small number of you to participate in this beta. A quick bit of information before you begin.

Every page and feature on the site has been updated/revised or changed a bit, so make sure you look around at everything.

The site may be very very buggy in some areas. Please report any bugs to me in the brand new (still unfinished) inbox, or send me an email to rowan@rowanhenderson.com

Articles and Polls are now together in one, make sure you test that perhaps.

Shouts have a basic rating system, more to come on that probably, check that out too.

The panels are a bit different, the way to add/sort them is much easier, just click the "panel options" button at the bottom and read the instructions there.

The inbox is completely brand new and quite a bit different. Still possibly very buggy, but we'll see how it goes. There's a cool new searchlight bar to help you find who you're sending to, but as of jQuery 1.4 it isn't working. I'm contacting the author to see if he'll do a compatibility update.

The design is blue :P

Note: The site now uses jQuery 1.4.X (vs KU 3.1's 1.2). It's much newer technology, and your browser should always be updated to the latest one. Slower internet connections may experience problems with the site. Your best bet may be to try and use Google Chrome, or just give up :(

Just a quick note on the latest browser versions..
Internet Explorer 8 (don't use Internet Explorer at all though, although some testing on it will be necessary)
Mozilla Firefox 3.6
Google Chrome 4.0.209
Safari 4
Opera 10.5 (may be buggy with some of the javascript, haven't tested it all yet)

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Okay onto a different subject. The geographical features are not done yet, not even started. So what you are basically testing is the beefed up version of KU 3.2, which will never be released on that site. This may be a long testing process, but maybe use it to your advantage as a kind of private-forum for you to chill in. Hopefully a few more beta testers are coming along the way, in due time.

So, I'm calling different features I need majorly tested "Test Waves", and for the first one... I'd like to look into the new avatar system. The whole thing has been re-coded to work properly, and be a little more advanced than before. Click on your avatar on the left side of the page to change it. It will take you to the new "settings" page, which is quite a bit different than you may remember, but the avatar form should be fairly similar. Upload a new avatar, give it a try! You can use jpg, gif, and png's now (if all goes according to plan), you were limited to .jpg on KU prior to this version.

You will be asked to crop/resize your avatar, and then will be sent to a page telling you the process is complete. HOPEFULLY. Now, if you go to your profile (My Profile) and click on your avatar (or anyone else's custom avatar) you will be brought to a new page with a larger, non-cropped, version of the avatar! Pretty nifty eh?

Anyways, please send me ANY questions, comments, criticism, praise, whatever you think would be helpful. Like I said, you can try out the new inbox and send me a message, or just email me at rowan@rowanhenderson.com

You can leave comments about Test Wave 1 here also.