Testing

[purplecat]

Since crossposting to LJ has gone fubar on my other journal.

I'm also, once again, not receiving comment notifications from louisedennis.

EDIT: Well that would seem to confirm it, can no longer crosspost to LJ from either of my accounts.

Comments

[alyse]

All minor stuff but I do wonder exactly who it is they get to test these releases.

Wait. Are you supposed to test these things before you roll them out? [/sarcasm]

I'll say one thing for Dreamwidth - they give code tours in advance and before they roll stuff out.

However, the bug on AO3 seems now to be fixed, since my fic is finally marked as complete. I'm sure you were really worried about it ::g::

[purplecat]

I'm glad your bug is fixed. I think I'm doomed with the cross-posting. All attempts to redo my settings (including deleting LJ as a cross-post site and then setting it up again fresh) have failed with various error messages, some of which other people are getting. I think I'm doomed.

I can sort of see why these problems might not have been picked up in testing, though it does suggest they are not very serious about third party developers (which I suppose is fair enough, Google isn't either), but the problems with the RTF editor and the last release are seriously WTF? I don't use the RTF editor, but having had to help a couple of users out of the mangling it did on their entries it boggles my mind that anyone could have tested it at all without realising it was seriously fubar.

LJ users who claim we're all being too demanding and these things happen are also starting to seriously piss me off. Yes bugs get through testing, but the increasing frequency with which they get through LJ's testing suggests that they aren't even attempting a minimum standard for software quality. As you say DreamWidth provides a much better model for how user expectations can be managed, and how to deal with bugs when they inevitably appear, though whether they could maintain that in the face of a userbase LJ's size is a moot point.