Beta 1.0 Released Privately. Public launch imminent.

Thursday, April 13th, 2006 by Steven S. -- Product Design

Thanks 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

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