IxDA website transition update

I appreciate everything the team is trying to accomplish. I can't imagine the demand this has put on the team. Kudos to everyone.

Hey Liz - just wondering - why restrict viewing of Member Directory by unauthenticated users?

The feedback tab also appears to require a Get Satisfaction account instead of tying into my account here. I was briefly confused when it told me to log in while I already was.

I have a question. Can you still post to the discussion by replying to email? I just did that last night—sent two messages—and neither of them posted to the site.

Thanks,
Jack

Hi,

Is it possible to set up a test IxDA system? The reason for this is that issues like change of the sender have thrown many people's email filters, including mine. It is great to have the 'FROM' address back but if a test system with a fair number of testers on the system would have been able to identify this issue and therefore pre warn the email list of the change. 

Such a system would be able to identify why certain emails are not get through to the system. 

I am sure that there would be sizeable cohort of IxDA members that would volunteer to be test users, including myself. At work we actually have two systems, with the first used for internal testing and the second been used for external testing, but that may be overkill for the IxDA system. 

It is important  to test real users systems before deployment, as people real systems are far more different than what you will find in a test lab and the only way of doing that is by having some kind of test system set up. There are many browser and email client differences between users. You have Email Clients like Mail, outlook etc, and then WebMail clients like yhaoo, Live, and gMail to name a few. It would be far easier to test deployments using volunteers rather than try to test every combination

I am sure also that there are other members that could help in both getting sever space, and help in the deployment of such a system if there is not the budget left the IxDA to deploy one.

All the best

James Page
http://webnographer.com

Elizabeth

Thanks for the update. I didn't see on your list a note to address the problem of how the list is misusing the headers From and To.

I listed a few problems with the current set-up in my previous email, and I'd like to add two more:

• the current use makes it impossible to know to whom a person is replying. In the traditional way of doing email if someone posts a comment in a thread and someone else replies that reply is directed To that person with a CC to the list. Thus I know when someone has responded to me versus responding to another participant in the discussion.

• the current use makes it appear that all list messages are personal to me, which messes up some of the filtering and marking in email clients (such as mine) that attempt to distinguish personal messages from mass messages. I can program filters around it, but I consider it poor usability to require every user to create filters just to get back normal email functionality.

I suppose these problems are unique to me in that I almost never visit the ixda site itself and instead just interact through the list so perhaps they're less important than things that affect the majority of site users. However, I would very much like to see you address them in your "issues resolution" list.

Thank you, --Alan

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Elizabeth Bacon wrote: > Dear IxDA members, > > We’re very excited about our new home on > the internets, and hope you’re enjoying the new features. We are > experiencing > a few problems, but overall the transition of over 17,000 member > accounts and introduction of a ton of new functionality has gone > remarkably smoothly. > > Some of the problems that we’ve identified and fixed so far include: > > - Lost password requests > - Duplicate membership accounts > - Speed & chunking of email delivery > - Incorrect mapping of a previous subscription setting > > Despite > some vocal outcries around that last point, we wanted to let folks know > that over 94% of IxDA members who have come on board the new site have > left their subscription settings the way we set them. Also note that > most issues of the kind listed above have to be investigated & > resolved on an individual basis, and we are an entirely volunteer team, so > we appreciate your patience & understanding. GVS has been a stellar partner, > and has done wonders to troubleshoot these issues as well. > > Some of the outstanding issues that IxDA & GVS are presently working to > resolve include: > > - Email formatting of “Daily” and “Weekly” notification > - Job posts don’t contain the job content > - Posting replies via email don’t always show up on the website > - Duplicate delivery of posts via email > > Note > that the top two issues were not identified as design priorities prior to > launch; in a site this complex, naturally there are going to be a > couple features that need Release 1.1 to get the design right! And of > course, the feature requests are flying now too, but our focus is > presently on resolving these email-related behaviors. > > To get in touch with the IxDA support team, please use our forum at Get > Satisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/ixda [1]. We appreciate your > efforts to add your voice to the same problem as submitted by somebody else, > where applicable. :) > > I > also want to reiterate that IxDA is a member-led organization, and we > can’t make this community much less this website succeed without your > support and involvement. > If you have a problem with the site or want to improve our services further, > consider contributing your time to help manage our infrastructure. To > volunteer, go to http://www.ixda.org/about/participate/volunteer [2]. > > Cheers, > Liz > > (((Please leave all

This is about the 1,000th time I've reset my password. Remains to be seen if it takes when I reboot.

*groans*

Today's "Out of Office Replies" - I bet those usually get filtered.  They don't seem to be posting on the site, but they're definitely showing up in my inbox today.

+1 on the out of office reply thing.

Guess it serves me right for posting over the Easter break eh?