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Final Build? Please.

Posted by Catalyst on May 27th, 2010 at 4:57 pm in Technology

Alaska and Ketchikan

Alright. I'm kind of going Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in a way to this whole site and its progression. I read somewhere once "If you aren't embarrassed by v1.0 you didn't release it early enough." Which I never like to find true. I like to take the Google approach and take something out of beta once it's "perfect."

So what's the quickest way I can consider this "perfect" for a first release, something that will have problems, but nothing too big. I'll of course fully implement my powerful hack detection into the system, which will make my first release very secure, but might have a few glitches on the legit-user end.

Look at my Roadmap, which might be a bit outdated, but it shows the main things I really wanted in the first build, but am actually not going to wait. The most important stuff first.

I seriously ask everyone with a little time to just do a full rundown of the site, and write down absolutely anything they see that they believe could be fixed/better. Test every feature, I don't care if all the posts and comments for a while are HJKFALSDHJLFKAH LKFHAJKDSLFHDS LFAHDS LFKJAHDSLFKH or Lorem Ipsum while people test things.

If you only take a bit of time to mention one thing, you can just throw it in the comments. If you get a big list, maybe private message me or even just throw it in the comments to make it public.

Just a side note, I'm going to be sprucing (weird choice of words) up all of the themes today. Make them look a little nicer on the eyes. Add a bit more color. I guess we'll just see how that goes... I'm not a designer.

Anyways, I wrote this fast, just brief description of my views on this site. So in review, I'm tired of waiting and want to see this active before the whole idea dies, and... message me anything you see needs changing/fixing.

Enjoy.

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I don't really know how to explain it, but just look at the latest comments bit on anyone's profile. It's pretty obvious/
Very minor issue, and I'm sure I'll find better things to bring to your attention later.

The Locations, Categories, and Random tabs should be available on every page of the site, or at least on most of them. As it is, its a bit annoying having to go back all the time to get to them.
AKVoice as it is now works and functions just fine. All it's missing is members.
I like all the recent changes I've seen. The themes are good, but again (I think I mentioned this before) I think it'd be cool if the map of Alaska could change color with the theme, since black definitely doesn't go with every color.

 

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