Preparations for Beta

Kaya.gs · #1

0.31 Alpha has a major design change on the main page, along with several other important fixes of usability.

The stability of this change affects directly if we go to open beta for next week, or the other one.

So this weekend is critical

. The tweaki is our strongest ally in this situation, reporting us all you can find will help us fix it faster, and release during the EGC, and also preparing for other Congresses and events.

Get on and check the new Kaya main page! : Kaya

Bonobo · #2

alpha.kaya.gs

cdybeijing · #3

Kaya.gs wrote:

0.31 Alpha has a major design change on the main page, along with several other important fixes of usability.

The stability of this change affects directly if we go to open beta for next week, or the other one.

So this weekend is critical

. The tweaki is our strongest ally in this situation, reporting us all you can find will help us fix it faster, and release during the EGC, and also preparing for other Congresses and events.

Get on and check the new Kaya main page! : [url]alpha.kaya.gs[/url]

Will the beta be public?

Kaya.gs · #4

cdybeijing wrote:

Kaya.gs wrote:

0.31 Alpha has a major design change on the main page, along with several other important fixes of usability.

The stability of this change affects directly if we go to open beta for next week, or the other one.

So this weekend is critical

. The tweaki is our strongest ally in this situation, reporting us all you can find will help us fix it faster, and release during the EGC, and also preparing for other Congresses and events.

Get on and check the new Kaya main page! : [url]alpha.kaya.gs[/url]

Will the beta be public?

yes

karaklis · #5

Hm, have you checked whether it works on all browsers? I can only see an empty page with different shades of grey and green, even if I click on "see everything", I see nothing. The buttons don't seem to be working except for the "inbox"-button. I use Firefox and Opera. :cry:

There seems to be an issue with blocking ads :rambo:

Only Google Chrome seems to be working correctly, but I use this browser only in emergency and for testing my own web page....

Crazy4Go · #6

Please hurry.. KGS has officially show me disgrace, makes me sick. :mad:

nazi admins

Kaya.gs · #7

karaklis wrote:

Hm, have you checked whether it works on all browsers? I can only see an empty page with different shades of grey and green, even if I click on "see everything", I see nothing. The buttons don't seem to be working except for the "inbox"-button. I use Firefox and Opera. :cry:

There seems to be an issue with blocking ads :rambo:

Only Google Chrome seems to be working correctly, but I use this browser only in emergency and for testing my own web page....

We develop on chrome and Firefox habitually , they should both work, we did not try Opera yet. We will do some cross-browser testing/fixing next week.

Remember to use the tweaki for these kind of feedback, its easier for us to organize it with the rest of things to do.

ez4u · #8

I played my first game on the alpha server yesterday. I was using Firefox on windows 7 x64 and all went well. I enjoyed the fischer timing very much. The spoken reminders were very helpful, "You have 1 minute remaining", etc. Fischer timing is somewhat complex since you both gain and lose time. The spoken reminders are a little surprising at first, but when you get used to them they allow you to play smoothly without really having to look at your clock. :tmbup:

On the other hand, when I logged in from my iPad using Safari there is an obvious problem. As shown below, only part of the screen appears. The list of people online is completely missing.

Edit: After posting the above, I logged on from windows (same as yesterday). Today we have a slight problem here too!

OK, scrap that last comment. If you are a Firefox user and you have Noscript installed, make sure you are allowing all the necessary sites! :blackeye:

Kaya.gs · #9

ez4u wrote:

I played my first game on the alpha server yesterday. I was using Firefox on windows 7 x64 and all went well. I enjoyed the fischer timing very much. The spoken reminders were very helpful, "You have 1 minute remaining", etc. Fischer timing is somewhat complex since you both gain and lose time. The spoken reminders are a little surprising at first, but when you get used to them they allow you to play smoothly without really having to look at your clock. :tmbup:

On the other hand, when I logged in from my iPad using Safari there is an obvious problem. As shown below, only part of the screen appears. The list of people online is completely missing.

Edit: After posting the above, I logged on from windows (same as yesterday). Today we have a slight problem here too!

OK, scrap that last comment. If you are a Firefox user and you have Noscript installed, make sure you are allowing all the necessary sites! :blackeye:

The user list appears by default if your screen is wide enough. Otherwise, you can click the user list button next to the input chat.

We are thinking of a way to make that more obvious.

ez4u · **#10**

Kaya.gs wrote:

ez4u wrote:

I played my first game on the alpha server yesterday. I was using Firefox on windows 7 x64 and all went well. I enjoyed the fischer timing very much. The spoken reminders were very helpful, "You have 1 minute remaining", etc. Fischer timing is somewhat complex since you both gain and lose time. The spoken reminders are a little surprising at first, but when you get used to them they allow you to play smoothly without really having to look at your clock. :tmbup:

On the other hand, when I logged in from my iPad using Safari there is an obvious problem. As shown below, only part of the screen appears. The list of people online is completely missing.

Edit: After posting the above, I logged on from windows (same as yesterday). Today we have a slight problem here too!

OK, scrap that last comment. If you are a Firefox user and you have Noscript installed, make sure you are allowing all the necessary sites! :blackeye:

The user list appears by default if your screen is wide enough. Otherwise, you can click the user list button next to the input chat.

We are thinking of a way to make that more obvious.

Got it now. You might move the button to the left of the chat input and make it look like a tab on the left side or put a small arrow pointing left, since that is where the list is on a wide screen.

walpurgis · **#11**

Soo, a new design? Tease us non-alpha participants with at least a screenshot so we have something to go by until beta

Redundant · **#12**

walpurgis wrote:

Soo, a new design? Tease us non-alpha participants with at least a screenshot so we have something to go by until beta

Here's a pic of the screen directly after login.

Sakeus · **#13**

Does kaya work with Android tablets ?

Kaya.gs · **#14**

Sakeus wrote:

Does kaya work with Android tablets ?

The new UI is still getting tweaked and tested. You are certainly welcome to try it out, and give us feedback about it. SInce we dont have one on our hands, and we didnt look into emulating it, we are not focusing on tablet compatibility.

But likely you will be able to watch games and comment with it.

Sakeus · **#15**

Kaya.gs wrote:

Sakeus wrote:

Does kaya work with Android tablets ?

The new UI is still getting tweaked and tested. You are certainly welcome to try it out, and give us feedback about it. SInce we dont have one on our hands, and we didnt look into emulating it, we are not focusing on tablet compatibility.

But likely you will be able to watch games and comment with it.

Ok thx

lets hope i will get into beta

RBerenguel · **#16**

I'm the only one refreshing the site and the blog every 15 minutes?

Kaya.gs · **#17**

RBerenguel wrote:

I'm the only one refreshing the site and the blog every 15 minutes?

Exciting changes today

. You should see the current supporter and founders watching us running like beheaded chickens.

RBerenguel · **#18**

Somehow "pollos sin cabeza" sounds more striking for me, even if it means the same

Sakeus · **#19**

RBerenguel wrote:

I'm the only one refreshing the site and the blog every 15 minutes?

no u are not

Dakre · **#20**

not only refreshing the blog and main site, but twitter and beta.kaya.gs

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