Profile pages launched as "public beta"

14 Dec 2005 9:57

Three days ago we took first step towards introducing our profile page system to our users, by adding a "secret" link to "My account" main page, directing people to create their own profile pages.

Today, we took yet another step, by beginning linking from our forums, from people's nicknames to their profile pages if they had one.

Why rolling out a new feature in slow phases and not to promote it heavily on news section, etc? Because we want to make sure everything works as it should -- for example, today I had to make some quite dramatic changes to the way how URLs within the profile pages are built and if we'd have launched it "big time" on Sunday, we might have already bunch of angry users whose inbound links would suddenly become invalid. Thus, this is the phase where everything is considered to be in "beta" and can/will be changed around without advance notifications.

But, before Christmas, we'll go for "real launch" :-)

List of my blog entries

• Moving UTF-8 encoded data from latin1 table to another latin1 table.. (20 May 2008)
• 10 years as a web developer (01 Apr 2008)
• Sharding a forum database (29 Aug 2007)
• Over 100,000 suspended accounts... (12 Aug 2007)
• Holidays and weather (08 Aug 2007)
• Minor tweaks to profile pages (12 Jan 2007)
• "My links" RSS feed added (15 Aug 2006)
• Opera 9 and form enctype silliness (27 Jul 2006)
• Hectic spring is almost over... (30 Apr 2006)
• My personal thoughts about the new copyright law (27 Dec 2005)
• Added keywords, etc.. (20 Dec 2005)
• Couple of bugs fixed (19 Dec 2005)
• Net makes everything mobile? Not so... (16 Dec 2005)
• Profile pages getting ready... (05 Dec 2005)
• Removal of pop-unders from AfterDawn.com for registered users (29 Nov 2005)

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