Things have been very busy at TagJungle! We did a soft release, meaning we didn’t really say anything about the site going live, but several people found it and blogged about it, of what we refer to as our ‘Geek Version’. The ‘Geek Version’ of TagJungle is a pre-beta release that we know has serious usability problems. Most people can’t figure out exactly what to do on the site. That’s understandable because it isn’t intuitive at all. We have a completely different design built that we are working on implementing at this time. It has been through usability reviews and is considered much easier to understand. We will be releasing that shortly and it will be accompanied by press releases, big announcements, etc. The next post I write will be on the Jungle Blog and will be about how to use the site properly. We’ll also be doing regular posts on the Jungle Blog about cool things that show up in the Jungle. There are also several new, REALLY cool features we’re going to be announcing in the next little bit.
So in the future, if you’re wondering what’s happening in the Jungle, make sure you bookmark the Jungle Feed and stay up to date with the cool things we’ll be pushing out shortly.
2 comments
dilvie
December 31, 2006 at 1:00 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
TagJungle looks really cool. I have some suggestions:
1) Make it faster.
2) Encode state in URLs, so we can bookmark result pages
3) Make RSS feeds for result pages
Cache cache cache!
Phil801
December 31, 2006 at 1:43 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hey Eric!
You make some good points – all of which we’re addressing in one form or another.
1)We’re going to be buying new servers soon, right now we don’t have enough juice to speed it up the way we want.
2)We are planning on making it possible to do this but there are some real tricky issues to it. We’ve tabled it for now but will come back to it later.
3)There ARE rss feeds available for each result page, there is an rss icon next to search term header on each result page – we’ve talked about moving that down a bit so it’s right above the results count. You’ve just convinced me to move it
Thanks for your feedback Eric! Oh, we are working out a caching scheme as well but again, there are some tricky little issues just like number 2.