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Knock Knock. P2 theme testing

Hello!

Soon.

Open Beta

Today onwards heimoi is moving from private to public beta. After 6 months of private beta it was due time to be more public in building and providing the best local experience.

This is a silent launch. More noise to come.

Prettier ‘n Hustling

Changes done with a slight delay due watching World Cup final (congratulations Spain!).

Featuring:

• Better location. Maps are out, visible and showing where the happenings are taking place.
• Local content near you.
• Enormous amount of polish, tweaking to layout, flow, looks and usability.
• Optimized, fast delivery to user. Grade A website (according to Yahoo YSlow!): Overall performance score 94/100.

Coming up: More location, style, usability

With midsummer behind I’ve been working on the next version of heimoi by concentrating on location, style and usability. Upcoming features will improve the “feeling” of the site with precision touches to CSS, annotate everything with geo-location, display activity around the user’s location (“nearby”) and especially improve upon the flow of the current input-system and dashboard.

ETA asap.

new beta version

The latest heimoi is fresh out of the open. Invites sent!

Old registrations had to be wiped out due painfully incompatible changes in the database-schema. It’s still beta for a reason!

Day 1 thoughts

More invites have been sent. The feedback from the small group of beta testers has already been enough to keep me busy, making me ease the door on invites slowly.

Among the noticeable improvements:
Improved dashboard: slimmer, more descriptive, better linked to get you from A to B to C to Texas to A to D back to A.

Vappu will slow updates down some, but rest assured the best is to come. There’s a lot of untapped potential and uncovered features. Aim is to get the small irritating things fixed first before moving on.

Are you beta testing the best local communication service yet?

The Day After The Beta Launch

Nothing blew up. How unexciting! However, everyone did end up in Kallio, Helsinki on registration. Oops!

A sizeable proportion of the feedback craved for better instructions+navigation for the first-time user. This is being improved.

More invites will be sent this evening as fixes addressing most of the feedback will be in place.

BETA! BETA! BETA!

It’s time to start shaking the heimoi foundation for good! Invites are being sent tonight onwards for those whom signed up on our beta-tester list.

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