It’s been great watching new testers find the site and add their tanks. You’ve all helped find some bugs and your suggestions have been really helpful.
So what’s next? I have been spending the last few weeks experimenting with some new ways that aquarists can share more structured information about their tanks, in order to make reefiris more useful as a research tool. This is obviously not inline with the (current) primary feature of the site, which is tracking your tank parameters online. So I’ve decided to shelve my experimental project for now in order to focus on polishing the current functionality. Namely, I want the screen for manual data entry to be as easy to understand and use as possible. This includes allowing users to edit data which they previously entered, in case of a typo for example. I will also be implementing better error handling so in the case that a user discovers a bug, they shouldn’t see a confusing “Something went wrong” screen but instead be able to report what they were doing when the error occurred.
I will also be doing a visual pass on each page in order to make sure it looks good and works correctly in Internet Explorer. I develop reefiris using OSX/Firefox, and it is now time to make sure the site looks good for everyone, not just me. :]
In personal news, I just accepted a postion as a Sr. Software Engineer for raptr, so unfortunately my 3 month vacation (I was laid off from Yahoo! in December) is coming to a close. This is another reason I have decided to refocus my work, since I will have less free time to code on the site.
As always, your ideas and suggestions are always welcome on the reefiris uservoice page. Thanks for testing!
A Website To Help Keep Track Of Your Aquarium…
There is a website which allows you to keep track of your aquarium online.
The website is called Reefiris and is currently in Alpha mode which basically means that there may be some bugs present and some features which are not yet complete. As the site…