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Beta Patch #9 - same day service

Some cool new usability enhancements went out tonight (about 9:30pm) key things were:
- 203a - Allow you to show task idea categories even if you dont have entities, for example lots of new users haven't put in there pets or cars, and don't realize we have those categories. Now in your profile you can choose -- "Show Only Relevant Categories" or not, this will enable/disable this feature

- 203b - The task idea section now keeps only one category open at a time, this allows you to navigate categories quickly without scrolling up and down the page. This new feature is enabled by default, if you like the old way better, you can set it in your profile by unchecking "Auto Close Task Ideas"

Beta Patch #8

Hi, we put a new patch into production at 11am this morning, here  are the key customer facing things:
197  - improved the look & feel of html emails
196 - improved the look of login validation message
198 - fixed the look of header on static pages to look the same when logged in, but have link to tasks & profile
199 - fixed edit of task to have  make & model on same line like new task
200 - fixed a bug where autorenew & snooze alerts were not being sent out

please keep the feedback coming!

Fixed a few small issues

We fixed a couple small customer facing issues and deployed friday night:
- 176 - if you picked reminder never it was giving a weird validation error
- a few typos on static pages

Another release with several improvements will be out monday or tuesday.

Welcome Beta2 testers!

Today marks the start of our 2nd round of beta testing for our service. The first round was a great success, thanks to all of you that participated. If you have any suggestions, questions or issues with the service please let us know.

In case you forgot, here is a checklist of key things to try:

• Create alerts that are due within 2 week period and send them to your email and phone via sms (if you have a cell provider not in the list, let me know and I will add it)
• Change your profile settings to adjust the # of tasks & task ideas/templates per page.
• Turn on and off the "recent activity" section in your profile and see what you like better
• Turn on and off the "show task idea details" option in profile an see what you like better
• Sign up for your favorite tasks, it will help us with the initial popularity settings
• Share task ideas with us by creating a simple task and checking the checkbox "Share with the community"

The KeepUp team

Beta patch #6 - Mon 11:59pm

Hi, we put a new patch in tonight that fixed the following issues:

(numbers are the bug id's in our tracking system)
154 - screencast to IE 6 and some IE 7 users, now we have a windows and a mac version of the screencast, if you have a windows media player it should do some streaming (startup faster)
155 - now allow dot notation in phone numbers (ie 703.555.1212)
156 - added new setting to profile where you can turn off tasktemplate details by default on the main tasks page, you can still see them by clicking more
164 - fixed javascript error when completing task in a situation where the new task was on a differnt page and cant be painted green.
165 - IE 6 login menu anchor link fixed (yeah!)
166 - better email validation when creating user and setting in profile, also automatically pre fills your profile with your login (you can still change it)
167 - if a tasktemplate is of the vehicle category and you have vehicles in your profile, it will automatically add the make/model from your selected vehicle (via javascript)
168 - removed the simple tasktemplate from showing on the home pages most popular tasks

as always, thanks for your awesome feedback!

Beta patch #5 - 5:00 pm - thursday

Hi, we spent some time working on IE6 and a few other issues, here are the key items fixed in this release (505).

- Fixed autorenew issues with reminder date not being set correctly in certain cases
- Fixed formatting of help (regression)
- Now showing login failure validation in login box if incorrect user/pass instead of nothing
- Fixed IE 6 problem where validation error box was not showing when creating a new task
- Added Blog navigation link to top nav
- Fixed validation box on signup to be prettier (and consistent on all browsers)
- Fixed bug where every task was autorenewing (not just the ones that are supposed to will)

Here is an updated list of known issues:
- on IE 6 the login menu link does not scroll the page down to the box
- on IE 6 sometimes the browser locks up (please send us a note if you can get this to happen)
- performance of the site varies widely  (some users report 1-2 second response on popup divs, others 10-30 seconds)
- if complete a task that has autorenew that is on a different page it will create a ton of java script errors (fixed in next release)

IE 6 Problems

If you have tried the site for any amount of time with IE 6 you are probably thinking, this site really stinks.

We realize now that a significant amount of you are still using IE 6 and in the process of diagnosing and fixing several issues (found a bad one yesterday where the validation on creating tasks doesnt even show up).

Watch for patch 5 very soon, in the mean time may I suggest you download and use a much better web browser  firefox .

We are committed to making this site work well on IE6, IE7 and Firefox. We desperately want to support safari as well but still stuck on some css issues for now.

Beta patch #4 - 12:10 am wed

Hey, we deployed our latest patch early in the am on wed, here are the key things included:
- implemented quick snooze (if you got an alert today you noticed some links that you can click to snooze and get a reminder in 1,3,5 or 7 days), these have been optimized to work on your mobile phone if it has a mail client and webbrowser (if you have a treo or blackberry, please give it a try and let me know how it works, it works great on my iphone)
- fixed a bunch of typo's im sure they are more, keep the feedback coming
- fixed several bugs including one where if you put in a date greater than 2037 it hoses everything up. Long story but for now I am limiting you to not do dates beyond this. So we will have a 2037 problem in a while if we are not careful.
- several improvements (hopefully) to autorenew section based on user feedback, we have changed the text and also made the section disappear/reappear based on if the checkbox is checked.

3rd Patch to Beta 1

We have been working hard to clear out the list of known issues, here is a list of things fixed in the last deployment (at 9:00 am this morning, revision 480

- implemented "remember me" (if you uncheck and close browser, you will need to relogin, if you check, we will keep you logged in for 2 weeks)
- implemented forgotten password functionality
- fixed a bunch of typo's in emails, links and other places on the site.
- fixed broken footers on some static content pages.
- fixed terms of use formatting issue on IE
- fixed annoying warnings from IE that some elements of the page are insecure (you will still get cert warning until we move to the proper url)

As always, if you see any issues please let us know!

2nd Patch to beta 1

This am at about 8:45, we pushed the 2nd patch to prod (revision 463), this patch included customer facing fixes for the following:
- all static pages cleaned up and look much nicer (except terms of use on IE has an issue with numbers being cutoff)
- signup page looks looks much nicer
- fixed several typos (thanks for the feedback)
- changed simple task to not autorenew by default & default due date is today