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Reasoning and motivation for change
Hi. Regarding our new interface. We've been blogging and tweeting about it and had it publicly available to all users for over a month, because we value your feedback and we care about you. If you care about Clicky, we feel it is your responsibility to monitor these communication channels that we use on a very regular basis. We are very open and transparent about everything we do.
During the beta period, we had many thousands of people use it and the vast majority of the feedback was very positive. Just go look at the old blog posts yourself to see the comments people were leaving. The only consistent complaint we got was that it's not centered, but otherwise most people loved it. Based on that much feedback from that many people, we knew we were going in the right direction.
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The New Clicky
After nearly 2 months of development, the new Clicky is now live. Here's what it looks like:
If you haven't been following our blog, we've had a public beta of our new interface available since September 16. (Hint: this is a good reason to read our blog. We announce important things on it!). The vast majority of the feedback has been very positive, which is remarkable for such a big change.
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More beta updates; and we're off to San Francisco
On Saturday, we're taking the train down to San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt. We'll be down there for an entire week. We'll try to be good about answering emails, but unless your message is urgent, your patience is appreciated.
We were really hoping to get the beta finished and turn it on for everyone before leaving, but it's not quite there yet. The only bugs left that we know of are very minor and are not holding us back, but there's just a bit more polishing to do. Also, we don't want to flip the switch and find out there's some major problem while we're on the road. We've been getting about 1,000 people a day consistently using it, which is great, but once that jumps to over 30,000, a serious problem may surface that we didn't know about. So, we're going to wait until we're back, which will be October 2. We'll probably spend a few more days working on it and then push it out to everyone.
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Beta updates
Thank you to everyone who has tested our new beta interface and sent us great feedback on it. The vast majority of the feedback has been very positive, and for such a big change, that's very promising. If you haven't tried yet, you should.
We've been squashing tons of bugs and adding more functionality this week, and we just uploaded all of the changes. As usual, please test and report on any bugs (by leaving a comment on this post).
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Help test the new Clicky beta
The last month we have been doing nothing but working on a massive overhaul of our entire web site. The goal was to make it faster, easier to navigate, and feel like a true web "application".
Check it out at beta.getclicky.com (but please read the rest of this post too!)