Calling All Front-Pagers! As of a few minutes ago, you have access for testing the new site.
I can’t say when the wider testing will start, but if you are one of the testing volunteers, that means you might want to start checking your email daily.
Front-Pagers, if you see this: Please uncheck auto posting of your test posts to John’s twitter and Facebook accounts!
dmsilev
Once the general testing phase begins, how long will it last for? A few days?
schrodingers_cat
@dmsilev: Friedman unit.
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: Yep, just a few days for the wider testing.
I thought it would be helpful for everyone to know that things are moving along and that it wouldn’t be surprising if the wider testing starts in less than a week. No promises on timing, of course.
satby
@WaterGirl: I’ll dropship some wine to your house ?
WaterGirl
@satby: Does that mean they don’t ship mojitos and margaritas by the
bottlecase?dmsilev
@schrodingers_cat: Ah, I see you’ve been involved in big software testing projects.
Gin & Tonic
@WaterGirl: It had better start in a week, because in two I’m out of the country with no time to test.
NotMax
Can we chip in for a hogshead of Red Bull for M⁴?
:)
Mary G
Progress!
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: I am still really hoping for Halloween, but absolutely no promises.
Starfish
You know how things automatically post to John Cole’s Twitter account? A link to what I believe to be the test site just posted to John Cole’s Twitter account.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Who or what is M?
Roger Moore
If the testing is only going to be for a few days, I may miss it. I’m going on vacation to the wilds of Utah starting tomorrow.
Starfish
@WaterGirl: Major Major Major Major probably.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: Major Major Major Major.
?BillinGlendaleCA
So we have a week before Cole says he hates with the intensity of a thousand suns and we’re back to square one?
Martin
For the record, I hate every aspect of the new design. It’s terrible and whoever thought any of it was a good idea should be forced to drive Trump to the airport.
I’ll almost certainly hate it more once I get a chance to see it.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I am out of the loop. Why are we chipping in for that for Major-Major-Major-Major?
WaterGirl
@Starfish: Good catch! Thank you. It’s behind a password, but still.
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: When do you return?
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I couldn’t read the tiny 4. My bad. I still want to know why were are chipping in for a hogshead of Red Bull. What did I miss?
NotMax
@WaterGirl
As he’s someone who juggles coding and such for a living, during this phase presume that as a front pager he’ll be burning the midnight oil.
NotMax
@NotMax
Was initially going to go with No-Doz but figured that was too antediluvian so changed it to Red Bull.
;)
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Are you suggesting that M4 will be trying to break the new site?
edit; that wouldn’t be very collegial!
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Not so much suggesting as insisting.
;)
cain
Good luck, watergirl! I hope the front pagers will be kind with their feedback, especially that Cole kid. But watch out for that Adam feller too!
TaMara (HFG)
Not to give anything away….but it’s purty! So very purty! I think you’ll like it.
TaMara (HFG)
@Starfish: tattletale ;-)
PatrickG
And if you don’t, let hilarity ensue!
J R in WV
Oh, Front-Pagers…
Never mind!
I’ll go back to sleep now. Car resting on my shoulder, makes it hard to see the keyboard.
NotMax
@J R in WV
Anne Laurie
I have NO idea what this might mean, WaterGirl — feel free to do whatever you need to make it happen, or to email me with instructions if it needs to happen from my end.
(At least one in five of my posts don’t show up on Cole’s twitter feed here regardless, so I’m guessing there’s some form of tech-wizardry that’s beyond my talents.)
I did leave some grubby fingerprints on the test site, though, so that’s one box checked off!
NotMax
*mutters under breath to self* Fix.
@J R in WV
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No doubt!
Also too, a shining example of – ahem – autocorrect.
:)
J R in WV
I expect things to be, well… odd for the next few weeks. Testing can do that to you. Been there, done that, from the other side of the wall. The fix it quick side of the wall, as opposed to the break it if you ca side of the wall.
Good luck, software developers!
WaterGirl
@Anne Laurie: Anne Laurie, I checked both of your posts, and they were both set to NO, so that’s good. :-)
We don’t want links to the test threads on the private/unpublished test server to show up in John’s twitter feed and on facebook.
WaterGirl
@Anne Laurie: I saw that! Are you planning to do more testing? Or are you satisfied that (knock on wood) your computer setup seems to be cooperating with the new system?
Ken
@J R in WV: The best part of testing are the really WTF bugs. “When a post contains a link to a tweet that itself contains a 640×480 image, the CSS is mangled and all text is rendered right-to-left in lime green.”
Anne Laurie
@WaterGirl: I’mma leave things where they be, unless you (or the other front-pagers) ask me directly!