First impressions

[Jay Bennett]

Ok guys the beta is now published and hopefully you're viewing this very thread using it... So what are your first impressions?

 

[GoodThings2Life]

Niiiiiiiiiice!

 

[scottcraft]

Good job Jay! Looks nice!

 

[Jay Bennett]

So starter for ten, if you haven't already, tap my profile picture here on the left to see my profile and send a DM.

Then from the main app page tap and hold the forum tile so you can pin the forums to your start screen

 

[GoodThings2Life]

Jay,

I know you're trying to track feature requests and bugs... is it better if we do a single thread per user or a single thread per feature/bug?

 

[Jay Bennett]

Jay,
I know you're trying to track feature requests and bugs... is it better if we do a single thread per user or a single thread per feature/bug?

Single thread per feature/bug would definitely be the preference please

 

[Judge_Daniel]

Looks great. I really like the navigational shortcuts for jumping to first and last. It'll definitely help save on time and data.

 

[Reflexx]

I like how fast it is. Whoosh!

 

[Laura Knotek]

I like it so far.

PM sent as a test, per your first post Jay.

 

[Duvi]

I like it. I will post a bug that has happened twice in the bug tracker thread.

 

[Duvi]

Some may disagree with me, but why not make a separate forum app vs. adding it to the WPCentral app? Maybe $0.99 for ad-free version or maybe to have extra features like PMs and such.

 

[selfcreation]

So far so good!!! I like it!

 

[Jay Bennett]

Some may disagree with me, but why not make a separate forum app vs. adding it to the WPCentral app? Maybe $0.99 for ad-free version or maybe to have extra features like PMs and such.

I did consider that, but ultimately by taking this no compromise all in one approach, we not only offer extremely good value for $0.99 (honestly if one more person says make it free I may hunt them down) but we can also do cool deep linking like linking to forum threads from articles and vice versa

 

[Laura Knotek]

I'd buy the app just for the forum features. Truth be told, I don't bother much with the articles. Most times I'll retweet articles without even reading them.

It was the same with Crackberry. I was very active with the forums, but always felt the articles were meh.

 

[Jay Bennett]

I'd buy the app just for the forum features. Truth be told, I don't bother much with the articles. Most times I'll retweet articles without even reading them.

It was the same with Crackberry. I was very active with the forums, but always felt the articles were meh.

Yeah we definitely have users that only go to forums or only articles, but for those who use both I want to cater to them we will hopefully change ad provider though so my efforts may be rewarded

 

[Laura Knotek]

This app is already so much better than Board Express, so it's worth it for me.

I also don't need the articles, since I subscribe to RSS feeds and follow wpcentral on Twitter. In fact, only 2 out of the 36 feeds i subscribe to are not tech sites.

 

[Laura Knotek]

I'd like the ability to see my time zone. It is showing a different one than where I'm at.I'd like the ability to see my time zone. It is showing a different one than where I'm at. This shows as 7:14 PM, but it's 20:08 now.

 

[baseballbert]

What forum app are you guys testing???

Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express

 

[Jay Bennett]

What forum app are you guys testing???

Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express

Bert I'm sure you were on the list... Check your private messages and email

 

[baseballbert]

Pretty good app. Took a few seconds to figure out all you have to do is swipe to the right to get to another page of posts in a forum. Other than that, so far so good. Maybe something to designate this?

Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express