State of Gleemax: Patch-Dark-Done?

[helium3]

Look. When I can't even click "post" or "create a URL link in my post" without getting an "unspecified oopsie" sort of error, there's a larger problem than it just being an "Alpha."

Hell, ENWorld does better than this. I can't remember the last time I tried to post a thread here and got an "Oops. That action failed for an inexplicable reason" message.

Even if that did happen, the way this website functions allows me to simply hit "back" and get to what I wrote.

When that happens on Gleemax, I lose anything I was working on if I wasn't "saving" to an instance of Notepad.

 

[TerraDave]

It's looking worse as time goes on to be honest.

When the news came out that Dungeon and Dragon mags were to be absorbed into the DI, the WotC line was that when Gleemax went live access would be free until the big 4e release, just to give people a taste of what the DI, digital Dungeon/Dragon etc was all about in the hope they'd be impressed and be more willing to shell out their hard-earned when the site went pay-for-access.

But now we're told that the current Gleemax is only an alpha (not even a beta!), that previews are going to slow down or stop for the immediate future, and that the 'real' thing is coming and when it does we should pay up and be amazed at how staggeringly better it is than what we're seeing now.

This is bad because it's transparently obvious that things are not going to plan over there. Gleemax's technical issues are still significant (and we haven't even seen the virtual game table and other gimmicks that are going to be significantly harder to implement), Dungeon and Dragon content is coming out in dribs and drabs, promised features (compiled pdfs for instance) are either months behind schedule or have been quietly dropped, and as a free sampler of what the DI has in store this whole package as we see it now is a long, loooong way from enticing.

I don't know alphas from gammas, but this is a good summary.

 

[Mistwell]

Look. When I can't even click "post" or "create a URL link in my post" without getting an "unspecified oopsie" sort of error, there's a larger problem than it just being an "Alpha."

No really, it's not. And if you think it is, you don't know what being in "Alpha" means.

 

[Jhaelen]

Look. When I can't even click "post" or "create a URL link in my post" without getting an "unspecified oopsie" sort of error, there's a larger problem than it just being an "Alpha."

Well, when was the last time you received an alpha version of a software to test?

Normally the general populace doesn't get to see the alpha version of anything. Even to see a beta version you typically have to register as a beta user in some way.

 

[sunmaster]

Well, when was the last time you received an alpha version of a software to test?
Normally the general populace doesn't get to see the alpha version of anything. Even to see a beta version you typically have to register as a beta user in some way.

And you think that this is a good thing, Sir?

If the people who get this alpha to see would be able to make bug reports than I would maybe see this as a good thing. But show me how I can write a bug report easily on Gleemax. This would open a way to customize their DDI to the wishes of the gaming people, so that more worth would be found in DDI.

This Gleemax opening was only for showing "Look, how great we are at WotC, we have a fully online D&D for you. And we will be getting even greater than great after going fully online with DDI."
But as many of their marketing tricks this Gleemax thingy fully fell on its face.
Buggy, not much functionality, un-reliable (If you would give me 1$ for every time I say this "The boards are offline message" then I would not need to work for one year) , not good looking, it just sums up every bad quality attribute for (web-)software.

 

[ThirdWizard]

But show me how I can write a bug report easily on Gleemax.

Please submit any bug reports here.

 

[sunmaster]

Please submit any bug reports here.

Thank you, ThirdWizard.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Thank you, ThirdWizard.

You're welcome.

Gleemax has, in my opinion, a great community, and I want it to turn out as best as it can.

 

[mhensley]

But as many of their marketing tricks this Gleemax thingy fully fell on its face.
Buggy, not much functionality, un-reliable (If you would give me 1$ for every time I say this "The boards are offline message" then I would not need to work for one year) , not good looking, it just sums up every bad quality attribute for (web-)software.

 

[TerraDave]

It just lost its last and only real use, and thank the gods for it:

http://forums.gleemax.com/forumdisplay.php?f=684