[Glenn]

Far from it. We have a whole suite of new features coming.

Any chance you could be professional about it?

[Jim Robinson]

Right. Thanks a lot, pal.

[Digital Sniper]

Any chance you could be professional about it?

What's "unprofessional" about how it's currently being done?

[discostu]

There’s nothing unprofessional about an iterative roll out. The fact is betaing for large websites like this never really work, the bugs are in the volume and the beta site never gets the volume. They chunked up the changes in a bunch of small waves, it’s a good way to keep things stable gives them a chance to find problems, and gives people a chance to adjust a couple changes at a time. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

[familyop]

"Any chance you could be professional about it?"

Most so-called "professional" sites are full of buggy, resource hogs that either put too much load on servers, clients, or both (PHP, Flash, Java, etc.). The freerepublic.com servers are fast, efficient and good looking so far. Perl is structure-based and can be difficult to modify, but hey, if someone wants to do that kind of work,...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There really is no good way to do Focus groups with an online system.....who wants to be in a Focus group?

[Quix]

Methinks your definition of “professional” is myopic, narrow, rigid, wholesale biased and about the depth of a wading pool for gnats . . . wellll . . . . at least for mice.

[Joya]

If this were my website, you would hereby be

UNINVITED.

If you don’t like it here, go start your own website.