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[denise]

My notifications are working again! Thanks, janine. :)

Mark and Janine will be here in like 12 hours! And neither of them have slept yet, and they have to leave for the airport in another hour and a half. I sense there is much Red Bull in Mark's future.

Tomorrow: testing the payment system and the last bits of cleanup. ONE OPEN-BETA-BLOCKING BUG LEFT (and if it doesn't get done exactly by OB, it's okay; it's the stats bug, and the stats are being collected, just not processed & served.

Then, Thursday, and the eight thousand things on the launch checklist we've been building. I actually remain eerily calm about this.

Comments

[mark]

HELLO

I NEED CAFFEINE

INSERT IV

[hatman]

... ONE?

Holy crap.

Woo!

And with over 36 hours to spare!!

[denise]

THERE IS AN EIGHT-PACK OF RED BULL WAITING FOR YOU

I WILL EVEN PUT IT INTO THE FRIDGE

[wenchpixie]

It's going very impressively - I've been involved in supporting software launches before and you have significantly less issues than any of them, given that things actually work!

I've noticed on the transmogrified layout (I've futzed with the colours, but that's about it) that the tags don't have any dividing spaces or commas etc. (IE6 (bah, work!), and FF3.09 both on XP SP2, also on whatever my phone's browser actually is).

[ratcreature]

Woot!

[miss_s_b]

I just can't get over how excited I am about all this! Hee! I've said it before and I'll say it again: you guys are awesome.

[bethctg]

Congrats! And 'yay!' for calm. :)

[owl]

*paper bags*

[alexseanchai]

*cheers*

Now I just need to settle an argument with myself over whether to get the paid or premium paid. Paid will probably win, since I don't collect icons and half the time don't bother to use a non-default, but...hey, which is better on your end?

[denise]

Well, in terms of money coming in, premium paid is better for us, obviously! (Especially if you aren't going to be using it to the full extent, since we priced premium-paid so much higher because it uses more resources, so if you're not actually using those resources it's more profit for us.)

But if you're only going to use the features of a paid account, and money's tight, really, just buy the paid account. I'd hate to see someone paying us money they can't afford for services they don't need, you know?

[wembley]

I am so impressed with all of you, and really proud of you in particular. Thank you so much for working so hard to make a journaling alternative as pretty, workable and user-friendly as this one has been. You're fucking awesome. \o/

[etrangerici]

Bravo! I cannot wait for the launch. This is amazing and you guys are the best.

Just remember to mix SOME water in with all the caffeine-delivering beverages. Y'all need to take care of yourselves, as well. Hydrate!

[ciaan]

\o/

[idlerat]

Whoa! Dom just wrote to me this morning that you had duplicated my problem - how did you fix it? Is mine fixed too?

Oh and I'm glad you got your comments back :)

[idlerat]

Um, by "my problem" I mean breaking comment notifications, which I haven't had in almost a week...

[deviant]

Yay!

[lassarina]

*cheers for you* You guys are awesome!

[chrismm]

Seriously, y'all rock. I'm so impressed. :D

[flurgh]

Almost time to break out the confetti. I can't believe how quickly you guys are getting things done. It's like you have super powers or something.

[onyxlynx]

I can almost not wait to use this terrific interface!

(It is early enough that I saw "stats...not processed & served" in terms of bacon and waffles with strawberries. Time for decaf!)

[the_shoshanna]

You guys. Seriously, you guys.

*is incoherent*

SMISHES YOU

[princess]

I've been waiting for DW since sometime last year. Probably right after I got back from Scotland.

Now that it's about to start Open Beta, all I can think is WOW.

Right on, way to go Denise and Mark (and every single person who's been helping get this thing off the ground)!

[blnchflr]

I can't imagine the work and stress you've had for the last many months. Hope it lets up in not too long! (I know, you have Open Beta to get through, too…)

[cloverdew]

Just... ditto to all the positive comments from everyone else. You all are awesome. Thanks for making Dreamwidth a possibility!

[denise]

Uncheck both boxes, save, recheck BOTH boxes, save, and you should be good. :)

[ursamajor]

*dancedancedance*

All this week, I've been saying "When it opens on Thursday ..."

Today, I'm saying, "When it opens tomorrow ..."

Tomorrow, I'll be all obnoxious countdown "When it opens in three hours, fifty-two minutes, and thirty-one seconds, thirty, twenty-nine ..." :D

Icons?

[cygnet]

I feel so plain. :-( Any luck on figuring out why some of us can't import icons? Clearly this isn't a necessity before Thursday, but I was wondering if maybe you'd stumbled upon the solution serendipitously while working on other stuff?

LOL - I hope those firehoses are ready for 9pmEDT tomorrow! 'Cuz there will be eleventy biljillion of us all trying to pay at the same time!

Re: Icons?

[denise]

No luck so far, but Mark's made a bunch of changes to the importer. If your last attempted import was more than a week ago, go ahead and try again.

Re: Icons?

[cygnet]

Tried two minutes ago. Still with the little red x. :-(

Re: Icons?

[denise]

Have you opened a support request for this yet?

Re: Icons?

[cygnet]

Yes - maybe 4 or 5 days ago; you replied 'known problem, working on it'

:-)

Re: Icons?

[denise]

Heeee, okay. :)

[starwatcher]

.
Is there any difference in post-length capabilities between paid and premium paid? (Although I'll probably go premium paid, anyway, just 'cause I want to support y'all.)

I only have three stories that needed multiple posts, but I'm looking forward to it. I think I remember the comment-limit is 16,000 characters, but what is the character-limit for a post?
.

[denise]

Nope, everyone's got the same post and comment limits!

Posts are 300,000 bytes or 450,000 characters, IIRC.

Caffeine

[cesy]

We discovered Blue Bolt in Sainsbury's for our LAN parties. It's like Red Bull but at Sainsbury's Basics/Tesco Value prices. Also, certain Cambridge mathmos swear by Pro Plus tablets, though I haven't tried them. Do these things exist in the US?

Anyway, you're awesome, and I cannot wait for Open Beta.

[bluemeridian]

I like the *paper bags* comment. It's so much more descriptive than *panics*. :)

[starwatcher]

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Thank you. I'll save this info.
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[susan]

why yes, it was I who left you the final countdown VM.
SO EXCITED FOR YOU!
Can't wait to celebrate with you soon.

[denise]

Come down this Sunday for the stitch & bitch party! 3PM our time. <3

DW RULES OK!

[idlerat]

Yay it worked! And also my preview function, which wasn't working, is working now, which is a real boon given crossposting and what that means for edits. And I just crossposted with a cut tag and *that* worked, too.

*sighs*

Dreamwidth. Is there nothing it can't do?

[alexseanchai]

Oh look what day it is. *bounce*

[beet]

Good luck in the next 24 hours! I'm rooting for you guys! You have done an amazing job so far, I have no doubt that you will continue to be awesome.

Huzzah for open beta! Huzzah for being able to finally give you guys money!

[ieune]

*does enthusiastic Kermit-flail*

[jenrose]

Seconded!

[jenrose]

What ARE the differences? I keep waiting to hear, and not hearing.

[ratcreature]

I have seen a guide listing the features *somewhere* that explained what was different besides more icons in some table. Of course now I can't find it. *rummages*

It was on dw_biz: http://dw-biz.dreamwidth.org/1009.html

that one also linked to the wiki page explaining the account levels, that has the handy table:
http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Account_levels

[shalom]

You should continue to remain calm because no matter what happens, you have loads of support in this effort and all will be well. Hope you got some sleep!

[sophie]

Other way round - 300,000 characters and 450,000 bytes. :)

[leroux]

everything about this comment is adorable! your name! your icon! your turn of phrase!

*paroxysms of fondness*