Beta 1.0 Released Privately. Public launch imminent.
Thursday, April 13th, 2006 by Steven S. -- Product DesignThanks to everyone in our private beta group for all your feedback! We’ve made some big fixes and some neat improvements in the last month of development.
What’s New:
- “One-click” Voting
- Voting/ballot UI improvements
- Syndicate questions on your website
- Grupie points “Earned” messages
- Grupie points award breakdown on account page
- Grupie points level icons
- “People like Me”
- “People who voted on this question also voted on…”
- “Favorite Topics “
- “Related Topics “
- “Newest Topics “
- Paginate answer lists
- Comment moderation/ratings (“helpful”, and “not helpful”)
- Answer moderation (mark as “inappropriate” or “adult”)
- Answer lists can now be sorted by date, # votes, “my” votes,and title.
- Full-size image views
- MUCH better image quality (this was seriously bugged)
- Time-zone and daylight savings (“real” clock times)
- Send a private message to another Grupie
- Bugs fixes and other improvements too numerous to mention
As you can see, we are not messing around here! Every month or so, we expect to release a ton of improvements like those above. We have big plans and we’re feeling unstoppable.
Coming Soon:
- “Grups”
- Edit existing Topics/answers
- Friends
- Answer comments
- Cool stuff we’re keeping secret for now.
Between now and our public launch (in about a week), we are inviting some key individuals to take sneak-peaks at Grupthink, and we’ll be making some final fixes and optimizations.
Stay tuned,
Steven
