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So the development is pretty well done. We are going into delete the test items and start fresh. This might not be the first time we delete all the items, there might be another time just before launch. 

It’s time to ask a few people to test the site out. Right now we’re totally in Alpha, so I don’t want to invite too many people. Only people who don’t mind adding a few things that might get deleted later. Also people with a sense of humour, as they might think the website is a total joke.

Anyway, if anyone is reading this and wants to try it out, add a few cool things and tell me about any issues, email me. peter.jubb [at] gmail.com

Never say never. We are finally getting this baby finished. I haven’t set any dates for the launch yet, but that’s the next thing I have to do.

Tonight I’m going to dust off my copy writing cap and write me some system messages. Someone has to write these things.

I’m sick of the whole flickr niceness myself, what do you think? Like hello Flickr in 34 languages? Oh that’s so cute as my finger stabs my tonsil. I’ve always wanted to write for a website that somewhat abuses the users with a certain attitude. This is why I love the video lesson series, You Suck at Photoshop. “you do, you’re awful, and that’s why you’re here”. I guess I’m just tired of writing the proverbial, “Oops, we couldn’t find any results for your search, try again.” ThatsCool.org is my chance to take revenge on all those stale and cheesy projects I had the privilege of writing for.

Let’s see if I can hash them out right here, tell me if you hate them, then I know I did my job.

“Hi there, unfortunately you’ve done something really stupid and we have to delete your membership now. Thank you, bye bye. ”

Or how about,

“Here is your invitation to ThatsCool.org. Someone either sent it to you by mistake, or they thought you would like this website and figured you were worthy of membership. Either way, they did you a great service. ThatsCool.org is a website not quite about everything, it’s only about the cool stuff. It could be about sailboats, or rattlesnakes, nintendo or nantucket as long as it’s nice and you say to yourself, that’s cool. But if you don’t find something cool that you like, just add it. Let the membership decide. But what does ThatsCool.org do for you? It enables you to find the best and newest of almost everything. Lip-smacking snippitty-snacks.

Here is your Invitation Code which can be used once for an email of your choice, <###########>

Visit http://www.thatscool.org/beta to get started.”

or “Woah, now you’ve really done it. Not only has your membership been deleted, but your IP address has been banned! Hopefully there are other websites out there that will support you cause this one ain’t it. Thank you bye, bye”

and “Apparently someone in our Department of Redundancy Department had been working overtime. And since we can’t afford overtime, this person was fired, twice. (We had to hire them back to teach their offshore replacement how to do that job, then we fired them again) . Sorry about this, but it appears that the new guy deleted your membership or lost it in all the bureaucratic paperwork, you know these places… Anyway, times are tough so we hope you’ll forgive us. To make things better we just wanted you to know, you can now sign in using your email and password. Again we’re sorry, give us another chance, we can change.”

and “We just wanted to let you know that we’re really concerned about this situation. Ok, we’re not that concerned, in fact we don’t even know or care what’s up. Either way this email is a warning to you. Get your act straight. You are either makin’ someone mad, have a really low score, or your attempting to game the system. This is not cool. There will be no other warnings, only account deletion. Thank you, bye bye.”

I’m getting pretty psyched about launching to this website to just about any community of friends. Once there is interesting content in there, it’s going to shine. We are talking weeks now. finally.

that’s right, you’re reading that correctly, the number has gone up since last time! It’s been a month, almost. You think there would be a lot more bugs fixed. Development can be slow, especially when your developers don’t have enough time to work on it. Also, all the bugs were not documented before.  But now they are.

This project has spent 3/4 of its life in development. That’s more than 2 years! What challenging times! Applications as complex as this need time.

In a week there will be a teaser where you can add your email to the list; maybe get a membership. that’s cool is an org afterall. Org like as in organization. And this organization is about cool.