Orphalese Tarot Zone Community Forum

Hi Richard!

I know what you said: if you understand it, you think others understand the same as you. You are computer skilled, and some members also are computer skilled.

I like that idea of having only some beta testers and not invite everyone to download. Since some of us have other mother languages and are not computer skilled. It is a big temptation to download and installed it if you are invited, but at the same time the program will not behave normal because of the bugs....and you cannot use the program if it unstable. Other thing, is that the beta testers write a lot of emails, and if you missed some of them, you do not know how the new features work, as the new beta features do not come with a help file. And some of us do not have the time to read so many emails and can missed the important details. When English is not your mother language you have to make a great effort to write and understand it, that is another point. Many of us speak other languages.

Your idea of inviting everyone to download the betas only when small changes are made, is good.

Another suggestion I was looking forward to make is that the deck exchange page needs some changes. Many of us are interested only in tarot decks... I think the cartomancy decks needs another page. I have the deck exchange page mark for showing 100 decks and It only shows only 5 or 6 tarot decks, so I have to mark it to show at least 300 decks in order to see more tarot decks. I like cartomancy decks, but I had downloaded only about 10 of them. Thats my opinion, as I prefer tarot and other oracle decks. As there are so many cartomancy, tarot and other oracles, some categorization is needed to make the searching more comfortable and the deck exchange page more neat and ordered.

Richard, I really think your formula of beta testing had worked fine until now and the program has many improvements because of this. But your idea of selecting some beta testers, is better for some of us.

Thanks for all the extra work, and pleasing all of us...

Aurora

Thomas:

I know I downloaded it in my own free will. I downloaded them because of curiosity...as I do not know anything about programing.

But I think some computer skilled people are more able to help Richard with the evaluation. The betas are available just for testing and evaluation. As you say, they are software under development.

Aurora

Hi Aurora

Just to say that I am aware of the need to change the way decks can be filtered. Actually I have some great ideas for doing this, but they will involve making changes in the program too.

I am coming to the end of a development cycle as far as the program is concerned. Now I need to concentrate on making sure all the resource files and help files are up to date etc, so I don't plan to make any more program changes for a couple of months, except for fixing any bugs that come to light. But I will make some big changes next Spring, and the deck exchange is going to have a whole new look with much easier filtering that will remember your preferences and not show decks you aren't interested in.

Cheers

Richard

Hi Aurora.

Maybe you are right about the beta testing and that only a small group should test them. On the other hand I believe that everyone, regardless of computer skills, can contribute to finding and solving bugs. People tend to discover different things that other people did not. That is the way it is. Any beta testers, is invaluable no matter how skilled they are. The more they use the program for instance, the more skilled they become in using it.

I do, however, understand that it can be quite a job for Richard, our main man, to get feedback from so many sources.

I am also mostly interested in Tarot Decks and Oracle cards so your idea about separate pages is very appealing to me.

All the best

and thank you Richard for your tireless and superb work on the program. Without you the world of Tarot cards would indeed have been very different.

Thomas

Hi again Aurora

That is exactly my motivation for downloading them too, curiosity. I am aware that every time I download a beta I am sacrificing the old version which ran smoothly, but as they say. that is the price of curiosity.

Smiles

Thomas

Hi Richard,

I'm happy to assist you in writing and/or editing help files if you are looking for assistance.

Regards

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