The Road To Beta Testing (Patreon)

No fun animated gifs or exciting new features this time, but hopefully the news is a bit exciting. I'm entering a phase of dedicated polish and bug fixing. Why now? There's still a few big features I need to implement but the core site functionality is basically in place. Now I want to get things to a relatively polished state so you can get some hands-on time and find any big UI problems that weren't apparent just from looking at images/videos.

This will be a closed beta for patrons only and I'm hoping to have it ready by the end of the year. In the meantime, I have a few major bugs on my hit list and I'm sure there is a haunted house's worth of smaller bugs lurking about. The comment system got a little borked when I moved it into the multitap, several elements aren't displaying as I'd like on smaller screens, and there's still some kinks in data loading and caching, to name just a few.

Once things are good enough I'll spin up a test server for patrons to log into and kick the tires. This will just be a temporary server, no data will be carried over to the final site. While you all are poking away at that, I'll get to work on the final set of site features planned before launch.

So that's the plan for the rest of the year. Thank you all so much for your continued support. I know it's not easy waiting on the slowest programmer in the world™, no matter my circumstances, and I can't express how appreciative I am of this community's support and patience.