Admittedly, going on vacation while on the verge of a beta release isn’t ideal timing. We tried to get it out the door before that, but hey, sometimes circumstances just conspire like the wind against you…

So I wasn’t sure if I’d come back to vast heaps of feedback and bugs, or to tumbleweeds tumbling and crickets chirping. (Did you know I saw actual tumbleweeds at an abandoned ranch homestead in the south Okanagan? Awesome.)

Both of those possible scenarios bring challenges, though, really, given the choice I’d take the embarrassment of data riches. And you have provided them to me!

Ilya has gotten me up to speed on issues and suggestions submitted to date, and it’s fabulous stuff. The collective community really is deliciously smart. He also did a pretty decent Melle impersonation keeping invitations going out, bug fixes processing, and feature requests recorded.

Fortunately for my job security, he seemed pretty eager to get back to his real day job.

We’ve made a few other decisions recently that I think will make our site, and our company presence in general online, even better. It is a bit more work for our designer and developers. Fortunately, we make them prove they have superhero abilities before we hire them.

In any case, keep the bug reports, suggestions, and questions coming. The result will be a site that hopefully fulfills your wildest information management dreams. Or, y’know, just helps you kick ass better at your day job. Which is pretty important, too.

And we are still welcoming those who’d like to be beta testers. Just drop me an email at melanie@aiderss.com. As always, there’s a snazzy t-shirt in it for you… :)