Inaugural Post

What is this ? ...

Here we go. The Yog Blog begins. We'll be using this forum to keep all of our Alpha (aka friends and family) testers up-to-date on happenings and improvements with Oyogi.

Thanks to all of you for all of your comments regarding the initial release. Your feedback has been invaluable and we've taken note. The team has worked hard to implement many of your common suggestions and to fix things that were not as intuitive or easy to use as they could have been. Moreover, we continue to move forward on other suggestions and numerous other key improvements as we begin inviting others to take Oyogi for a test drive.

So, What Have You to Show ? ...

Some key highlights of what you said, and how we responded are:

• 'Extend time' and 'Increase tip' were confusing, especially when there is no moolah involved so far... So, we removed it.
• As one person put it "having the 'my questions/my answers' links under each tab is kind of redundant, when there is the big tab for it an inch away" ... So, we removed it.
• The colors for showing if a Yogi was online or offline were not distinct enough ... So, when a Yogi is offline, their icon is now gray and when they are online, the icon is blue
• There were too many links (options) under the My Questions/My Answers tabs ... So, we reduced the number of options .. you can still get the same information, we just tried to make it easier to navigate
• What in the heck is 'accelerated time' ? We agree, its gone.
• What does 'add a conversation mean' when viewing questions? Yep, also confusing. We've changed it to 'add a clarification.' Please let us know if this solves the issue.
• Too many chat windows start up when I try to chat with someone else ... We now make chat start on a single click, but double clicking will do no harm
• There were a number of questions around "offering to answer", "accepting answers", "choosing responders" and the like ... We've made some changes that will hopefully make the whole question-and-answer cycle more understandable. We're also working on more fundamental changes for future releases that will hopefully make it easier to collaborate.
• Mutliple windows for chatting with the same Yogi and not having chat history with the Yogi was confusing. We've made a lot of changes to chat that take care of this issue as well as make it more obvious as to the fact that chat is intended for meaningful, storable conversations
• "Buddies"  was a confusing term in this application, so far. So, we've renamed it to 'connections'. This may not solve the problem, but hopefully some of the confusion will be eliminated.

So, these were some of the recent changes inspired by your comments. We've also made changes which hopefully make it easier to browse and see things that may be of interest to you -- and, we continue to work on other suggestions you've made, so stay tuned.

Thanks again for your support and putting Oyogi through its paces.

Happy Thanksgiving !

Comments

[matt]

You all are doing good. I like that you seem to be working towards keeping the interface clean by not over-burdening it.

Great job so far on oyogi.