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Switchboard is finally made public!

started by Joel Moss Sep 8th, 2006 in Uncategorised

Welcome, welcome, welcome!

As you can see we have gone live with Switchboard and the public beta is now open at http://tooum.com Please signup for your Switchboard. It is free and does not include any ads - for the time being.

If you want to know more about us and Switchboard, please visit our new main site at http://tooum.com

  • We want to know what you think!
  • We want to know what you want!
  • We want to know what you like!
  • We want to know what you don't like!

So please tell us so that we can make Tooum and Switchboard even better.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Switchboard is currently running in beta mode, which means that it is not quite perfect - yet! We have opened up the beta to the public to gage interest, collect feedback and remove all known bugs from the system. So we would greatly appreciate your help is doing this, by simply posting you comments, bug reports and feature requests right here.

Comments 11 Comments
   Sep 9th, 2006 by Ian

This is really awesome, I like the idea!

   Sep 9th, 2006 by Joel Moss
      edited Sep 9th, 2006 by Joel Moss

Thankyou Ian. We welcome any and all comments, including feature requests, bug reports and general comments.

You setup your own Switchboard yet?

   Sep 10th, 2006 by Ian
      edited Sep 10th, 2006 by Ian

Yes, I have a switchboard: http://www.dormedas.tooum.net/

It doesnt have any members since I dont want to release this with the bugs currently present, but rather, with the ones that shall be fixed soon :D

   Sep 10th, 2006 by Joel Moss

We will of course get any bugs you find fixed very quickly. That is what this beta phase is for.

   Sep 28th, 2006 by Edit this comment

I cant login in to my admin area or post under my username because i get stuck in a loop of trying to login.

   Sep 28th, 2006 by Joel Moss

I cant login in to my admin area or post under my username because i get stuck in a loop of trying to login.

I have replied to your comment at http://tooum.net/switchboard/blog/1436:Moreupdatesand_fixes/#6077

   Oct 1st, 2006 by Steve

Some page don't show all of the information and the up and down buttons wont get it either. The only way I can see all of it it to left drag and copy the text (start at the bottom of the page and keep dragging.)

   Oct 1st, 2006 by Steve

There is no scroll bar on the page but the keyboard up and down buttons wok like a scroll. Can get all of the page this way too.

   Oct 1st, 2006 by Joel Moss

Perhaps you could answer a few questions for me, so that we can get this fixed...

Which pages are you referring to? Does it happen on all pages? A screenshot would help. What browser version and operating system are you using?

   Nov 26th, 2006 by bejoy

Hi joel

Your concept of integrating blog and forum is amazing and i guess you are the first one to do so, it seems that you are very much creative. if you still work hard you can really compete big players in the market.

here is one good advice, never ever think of placing ads on your application. this can hurt ur customers and you may loose the market aswell, you will never find ads on word press or blogger. this can be ur strategy,

you must be thinking how to pay the bills, there is one solution, you can provide more services by letting customers pay for it. and provide few services for free. moreover you can add a small tab for donation. its generous.

best of luck buddy, you got amazing application.

   Nov 26th, 2006 by Joel Moss

Thankyou bejoy. Your comments are well received. If you have any ideas for features or enhancements, please let me know.


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