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February 13, 2007

Beta testers needed

The amazing Angela is at it again. This time she's working on a new social network site for political junkies and needs people to sign up to help debug and offer input about the design/functionality of the site. Think of it as a sort of MySpace or FaceBook for politically active folk of ALL ages.

Go sign up now at: A donkey and an elephant walk into a bar.com.

This long and silly URL is the working title for the project, but since it's impossible to forget, chances are it will stick. For those who don't know, Angela donates countless hours of her time to Democratic politics and has done more to help Democrats communicate with each other in recent years than any person in this state. Thank you Angela for everything you do for us.

Posted by Mel at February 13, 2007 11:04 AM

Comments

Alright Grift!

Come on ya'll, go sign up!

Posted by: MelGX [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 12:07 PM

This doesn't mean I'm going to get more email invitations to bass fishing with young Democrats at Lake Seminole does it?

Posted by: griftdrift [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 12:15 PM

How about snow crab at the beach, Grift?

Posted by: shelby [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 12:19 PM

Sounds like a hot date, you two.

Posted by: Sara Wara [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 12:27 PM

Bass Fishing! I missed that invite somewhere.

Posted by: Tim [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 01:29 PM

Registered. Does this provide the functionality that Sonny tried to use in the last election? J

Posted by: Jenna [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 01:49 PM

Okay, here's a bug report for you... I went to the site to try to sign up, and it crashed Firefox.

Posted by: Amber [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 01:50 PM

In the "relationship" field in the profile, just offering the choices "single" or "taken" would be nice rather than "married," "divorced," etc. I don't really feel comfortable with any of the answers.

Posted by: rusty [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 02:02 PM

Also you need more options for relationship status besides married, single, divorced, or widowed. That is SO Republican to limit it to that! Yeah I'm divorced but I'm also IN A RELATIONSHIP! Sorry, pet peeve.

Posted by: Amber [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 02:05 PM

(1) I'll get on that beta like white on rice.
(2) Charlie Norwood has passed away. Just reported on NPR.

Posted by: Greg Greene [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 02:05 PM

doh! Sorry for the double comment. And I see Rusty said the same thing. Well, what can I say... great minds think alike! :) Mel you can delete one of my comments...

Posted by: Amber [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 02:05 PM

That's a big bug.

Jenna, there may be some common features, but since we don't know for sure what "those guys" are selling, it's tough to say.

Posted by: MelGX [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 02:07 PM

Also, and then I'll quit carpet bombing the comments section, maybe homepage photos should be cropped in the center rather than on the edges:

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/8703/screenep2.jpg

And nothing happens when I click on podcasts/vidcasts.

Posted by: rusty [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 02:08 PM

This is good. She's always asking for feedback. Keep it coming.

Posted by: MelGX [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 02:19 PM

Well Amber, you do know 70% of the planet uses IE. Get with the program!

By they way, it crashes my Mosaic 1.0. j/k

Posted by: griftdrift [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 02:52 PM

Thanks for the feedback all! Rusty and Amber -- I've updated the relationship choices (my bad for just copying over that functionality from a social networking site we created for seniors and not changing it to reflect the target audience!). Also Amber, I saw you had an error when importing your blog, so I think I've fixed that...

The podcast and videocast stuff is still pretty buggy-- working on that...

Posted by: plange [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 03:14 PM

Oh Grift, don't start! Kate and I already went a couple rounds over the Browser Wars thanks to SoCon07 -
http://www.katebroun.com/2007/02/browser-snobbery.shtml

Posted by: shelby [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 03:25 PM

I had an error when trying to set my password--it kept telling me that my password had to include at least one number but could not be all numbers. The password I was using was a zero, then a bunch of letters, and then a zero. I changed it to a different password and it worked fine. Not sure what the bug was...maybe it doesn't like zeros?

Posted by: Sara Wara [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 03:28 PM

Thanks guys! Also, there's a link to a forum on the site for bug reports too, that will help me keep track of things...

Posted by: plange [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 03:29 PM

Man, can you hear the giant sucking sound? Everybody is over at donkey.

Posted by: MelGX [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 14, 2007 01:33 PM

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