Increasing involvment
Hi all. I wanted to let everyone know that I’m making every attempt to increase my involvement in the development and maintenance of RouteSlip.com. Along with that are some plans I have for making this more financially viable and worthwhile.
That being said, none of the events in my life have changed to a considerable degree, so new features, support, etc. will still be slow — but it’s better than total cold turkey.
A couple comments about support:
First: I’ll do my best to fix site-wide issues that affect all users, and those that affect all users of a certain browser class (i.e. IE6 or IE 7 or FireFox 2.0, etc). I won’t be able to address issues that individual users are having, like:
- Routes won’t display for me
- I can’t create a route
- I can’t log in
- …
The site does work. However, it’s always possible (and likely in some cases) that I’ll introduce a bug that breaks something else in the application. As soon as I become aware of the bug, I’ll begin to look into the issue. A good example are the recent issues where users saw database error messages on the “My Routes” page (I’m still looking into that one).
Second: The RouteSlip.com community has grown huge by all expectations I had and the Community Discussion Forum can be a huge benefit to users that are having “one off” problems with the site. I’ll open it up completely so that all users can post to it and request help from the rest of the community.
Lastly, I’m working on an advertising program to help support my efforts on the site. Part of that will include a referral program that pays contributors for advertisers that they bring in to the site. More information will be coming soon, but for those of you that have asked about ways to help support the site, this is it.