Releasing a commercial revweb site

[Andre Garzia]

Richard,

it pays to be wise and patient. In doubt wait for both. Check with your
group of users first, if problems arise, then wait longer. RevWeb is just
starting, there's a lot of room for improvements.

Andre

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Richard Miller <wow at together.net> wrote:

> Andre,
>
> Thanks for your thoughts. Are you suggesting to wait for another version
> (or two) of the plugin, or wait until I've seen how it goes with a group of
> users..... or both?
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
> Andre Garzia wrote:
>
>> 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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