Improvements to Battle Center
We’ve been working to fix any bugs or to improve overall user experience on the application since it launched based mostly on feedback.
We just pushed a week’s worth of bug fixes and improvements a few minutes ago, and this post will just highlight a few of the more significant ones.
Fixed an issue with non-participants of tournaments to post new messages.
Fixed an issue where co-hosts were duplicated as participants
Fixed a style issue with winners of tournaments, we now give them a nice style that stands out. With a little confetti to spice it up. http://screencast.com/t/YzdkMTRk
Fixed an issue with the logo being 283 pixels wide even if it was only 100 pixels wide (Stretching).
We now force subdomains (anythinghere.tbblive.com) to be lowercase, which caused some 404 page errors for people.
Also force lowercase on BattleID’s
This was all within the first week of launch.
We call this a “Sprint”. We use a simplified method of “SCRUM” to structure our development progress - http://bit.ly/aMYrQz - For those so inclined.
Some of the things we’ll be working on this week:
We’re in the process of cleaning up the participants code and re-integrating Teams. We took teams out so that we could launch sooner. Teams functionality should be live later this week.
Email Notifications - This ranges from things like when someone posts a message, to when you receive an invite to a team. We have about 10 different scenerios where an email notification will be sent.
We’ll be streamlining the sign-up process (requiring only one screen instead of 3) and the upgrade process (the form for billing info is quite terrible).
We’ll be changing the Plans up a bit also. Changing up the name “Noob” to “Casual” - In hindsight it appeared a bit too negative. We’ll also be making significant updates to the number of tournaments you can host across all plans, and also the max number of participants.
We’ll be working on a discount & affiliates program over the next couple of weeks.
So that about sums up all that we have done (last week) and what we plan on at least touching if not finishing this week. If you have any questions or have any suggestions please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. We don’t sleep. http://support.thebattlebegins.com - hit us up anytime. We’re listening.
