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All times are in Pacific Standard Time, relative to where our office is located. These times aren't set in stone, by any means, I only write it up here to give everyone some idea of what our typical day looks like for a beta release.
Our next release will be Tuesday, January 25th.
8:30am, we're all in the office, getting coffee or Diet Dr Pepper, and coordinating our morning events, squishing last-minute bugs. We furiously test our code internally on several operating systems and browsers to see if there are any specific layout/render bugs we need to fix.
9:00am, I flip a switch on the database to increment the next beta phase, and migrate new users to our mailing list software. Any users signing up after that will have to wait until the NEXT beta release to get an invite code.
11:30am, lunch time. BLT's all around.
12:30pm, we reconvene to do a final status check on our code, see how everything looks on our test server, and work furiously to fix last-second problems.
1:00pm, I generally start tweeting our status, what we're working on, and issues we see.
Between 1pm and 5:30pm, we get all of our code checked in, deployed to our production servers, start preparing our newsletter and get ready to queue up any invite codes.
The newsletter will explain more about what we've been working on, what's in the new release, that sort of thing, but does NOT include beta invite codes. Invite codes are always sent in a separate Email to users.
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Our last beta invite code cut off was about 10am on January 11, so any new beta signups after that time should get an invite code on January 25th when we release our next software update.
It's important to note up front that several things will seem "missing" from the site, such as the forums, etc. This is to be expected, because we're rolling out the beta in phases where we add new features every two weeks or so.
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While this is subject to change, our next release may include some of the following:
- see how you rated a game on AG2, and update your rating to whatever you'd like it to be now
- updating the utility bar to show you when users reply to your activity stream messages
- search results page (whoops, we released that one early, lol)
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search bar makes it easier for me to find out if the name is taken or not.
Keep in mind the following caveats:
1. Users who change their username will have their old name reserved for 30 days
2. Banned users remain in the system forever, but won't show up in search results.
Did you guys make it from scrach or use some this else to help
I built it myself from scratch. And I'm doing a ton of work on username searches today to make it more efficient, but I need to rebuild a TON of indexes, so it's either really slow, or really low on results.
for poeple that are allready regulars it would be easy to call them by the old name but how would you know who is who
During the 30-day period after someone changes their username, we'll be sure to have ag.com/profile/oldusername redirect you to ag.com/profile/newusername ... we need to do this so search engines, etc., can detect changes properly.
During the 30-day period after someone changes their username, we'll be s have ag.com/profile/oldusername redirect you to ag.com/profile/newuserna we need to do this so search engines, etc., can detect changes properly.
Ah nice idea, but I was more talking about on the forums. Say if cormyn chaneged there name how would we still Know it is you? Would there be your old name under your new name our if we do signitures would the be a part that seys all of your former user names?
Example:
__________________________________________________
Blah blah blah
This is__ who's fromer user name(s) where
Blank
Blankity
Blank
-â"----------------------------------------------------
Or some thing? It seems that it would be confusing with out some thin
I built it myself from scratch.
O.O nice... lol! And you said you know just a little! Geting that kinda string data and rengering info like that is hard! Good job! I bow in belittledness -_-.
Free Rider 2 showed up for me. So did a bunch of other multiple word games.
And I can't find the utility bar update. Any help?
Jdogg, you would have to clear your cache in order to see any new updates from Beta. It's not necessary for some, but others do have to refresh their cache to see changes.
We'll probably keep a history of a user's previous names. If it were up to me, everyone would get one name change to something else not used in the system, and that was it. But, it's not up to me.
Jdogg, the 'recently commented' update isn't in the utility bar, it's on your dashboard. Sorry if I misquoted what was going into this release.
Ok, I see what you mean now. I actually had clicked that before, but didn't realize it was a new feature.
Ah I see good idea Ian. I agree with you about the on time thing though...
Nah you said it right itwas just a misunderstanding it is had to get things about the site that are bing said and not shown with picscuz da pic is worth 1,000 words and we pople are to lazy to use that many words and try ti fit it in to a few so it does not work.... LOL XD! Jk.
But hay does that mean all the buttons on the dash braod are working! (Not including the "my armory" type buttons.
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