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So we're done... but are we ready to launch?
The answer is realistically: In a day or two.
We made great strides yesterday, but today was different and what was very obvious in my own work is that I am exhausted. Small frustrations with putting in a date picker and map proved too much and I just needed to get away from it.
So what's left?
Matt's working on some more tests to catch the few things that I broke in the last couple of days (when I was charging around adding the skeleton of the design).
And I'm going to get that date picker and map stuff working and write up a quick document to describe how Markdown syntax works on Microcosm.
And then... on Tuesday perhaps... we open the doors and invite people to try it.
What we're looking for from the doors opening on 1 test site is basic feedback about whether what we've built is the right thing. And that's really a question to you all as users of forums rather than as administrators.
If we have made a product that could power forums, and you find it easy to use, powerful, engaging... then we have a great foundation to build on. But... if we've got the foundation wrong then we need to correct that before we proceed too far.
So the whole point of launching isn't to say "It's done, we're finished", but it's to say "Enough is done to share it, and we really now want to start learning how it's used and to evolve it the right way.".
When we have the basics of the experience in place (very quickly we hope), then we open the alpha version to other little sites, and bed it in so that we can get to the beta.