Releasing a commercial revweb site

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Mon Nov 16 10:03:54 EST 2009


Richard,

I would wait some more, try conducting a beta test with a selected group of
users, pick 50 or something and see if it works for them, if you just launch
the site with no focus group test, if risk a huge support issue.

Andre

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Richard Miller <wow at together.net> wrote:

> I'm within a week of releasing a fairly extensive commercial revweb
> project, which will immediately have traffic in the thousands (based on my
> existing Rev software and user database). I'm feeling a little uncertain
> about this, given the state of the plugin (which mostly works quite well).
> I've only tested my program on XP and Firefox so far, but will do much more
> thorough testing this week, including asking folks here to help in the
> testing process.
>
> One concern I have is that the plugin will likely be upgraded again soon
> (in a week?... two weeks?... unknown)... meaning all my users will have to
> reinstall it.... which means downloading the new version, shutting down
> their browser, installing the new plugin, then restarting. Yes, they have to
> do this with other well known plugins, but will they be concerned that this
> process will be all-too-frequent with the Rev plugin? And for that matter,
> what am I even telling them about a revweb-based site? Am I telling them to
> essentially ignore the security concerns (I use every permission, other than
> the registry)?
>
> Will there be problems with other configurations of an OS and browser? I
> hope to find this out shortly, but what if they have a somewhat older
> version of a browser? There's been so little revweb real-world experience to
> date.
>
> Anyone else on the verge of taking this leap? Or better yet, has anyone
> else already made the leap? Any particular thoughts on this matter?
>
> Thanks.
> Richard Miller
>
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