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BC site launch tonight/early tomorrow
May. 24th, 2010 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moemCircumstances make it necessary to launch the new site tonight, May 24 at 8pm 2000 PDT. Anticipated outage will be 6 hours.
Though the new site is still in Beta and has some known bugs in it, things are at the point where juggling the two sites (old and new) is no longer possible. There simply are not the resources to do so, both in financial and manpower terms. Matt is committed to work every day to upgrade new functions, restore anything not working properly and add additional features, as well as continue to work on the bug list that the Alpha testers have identified.
As to language, the content is with our volunter translators, and they are still working on it. We are very grateful for their hard work and will update in local languages when each translation is ready. Untranslated pages will bear a note saying something like, "Pardon our English. We're translating as fast as we can."
All questions, concerns, bugs related to the new site etc should be directed to the Beta forum http://bookcrossing.com/forum/25, which will be open to all members. General questions can still go in the Q&A forum but if there are Beta specific concerns, they should be posted in the Beta forum, which will be checked regularly.
At the bottom of the new site is a link called "Roadmap" which gives kind of a to-do list for upcoming versions of the new site. Not all things are on there, but it will give a little idea of some of what's coming in the next updates.
Here is a time converter link with the PDT prefilled for everyone:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/c
Please share this announcement any way possible: FaceBook, Twitter, BookCrossing groups, etc. We want to get the word out as best as possible
Thank you all for your support and help,
On behalf of Heather, Matt and all who work/volunteer here at BookCrossing
Bruce
Though the new site is still in Beta and has some known bugs in it, things are at the point where juggling the two sites (old and new) is no longer possible. There simply are not the resources to do so, both in financial and manpower terms. Matt is committed to work every day to upgrade new functions, restore anything not working properly and add additional features, as well as continue to work on the bug list that the Alpha testers have identified.
As to language, the content is with our volunter translators, and they are still working on it. We are very grateful for their hard work and will update in local languages when each translation is ready. Untranslated pages will bear a note saying something like, "Pardon our English. We're translating as fast as we can."
All questions, concerns, bugs related to the new site etc should be directed to the Beta forum http://bookcrossing.com/forum/25, which will be open to all members. General questions can still go in the Q&A forum but if there are Beta specific concerns, they should be posted in the Beta forum, which will be checked regularly.
At the bottom of the new site is a link called "Roadmap" which gives kind of a to-do list for upcoming versions of the new site. Not all things are on there, but it will give a little idea of some of what's coming in the next updates.
Here is a time converter link with the PDT prefilled for everyone:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/c
Please share this announcement any way possible: FaceBook, Twitter, BookCrossing groups, etc. We want to get the word out as best as possible
Thank you all for your support and help,
On behalf of Heather, Matt and all who work/volunteer here at BookCrossing
Bruce
