News 3/22/2016 - Testing Notice

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Note: The testing actually begun on 3/18/2016, but we never moved the announcement to the public news section.

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All,

We will be publicly testing the latest revision to our ads platform. Previously, this has been only carried out on our test domain and local workstations. However, we will now push this out on the main site that you are browsing now.

Here is how this will work...

- Various types of ads will be tested.
- Ads may be visible from time to time, we will be applying different criteria for testing to see how things work in the real world.
- Display rules will be tested among different groups and types of users.
- Some ads will follow valid links, others will not. (none of the working links are paid advertisers, this is only for testing,)
- Errors may occur, but you need not report them unless it inhibits your browsing experience. (In theory, this should not happen...)

At this time, we are *NOT* asking for feedback. Nothing you see is has been fully decided upon. There may be a feedback period later, just not during this testing cycle.

The length of testing will be determined by results we observe after it has run for awhile.

Thank you for your support and understanding.
 
Update: 4/4/2016

We are pushing out a new revision today and if you haven't seen some of the placeholders yet, then you may start seeing some of them soon. (most of you should not have seen any test ads, so far.)

Thank you.
 
Advertisement testing has now been rolled out to all viewers (member and non-member).

>> PLEASE CLICK THE BANNERS << (this is testing, so please try and break it... send errors to me by private message or via our helpdesk email address)
 
Thank you for your continued support.

The testing phase is nearly complete and we have discovered a number of bugs that are being worked on at this time. Additionally, we have received a number of requests already to purchase the first set of ad slots... thank you very much to those who have contacted us! This means a great deal to us and we can finally begin planning more significant development of TAG.

Updated timeline: (tentative)
- Testing ~4/20まで (after bug fix, will extend if more issues arise)
- Documentation and PR Docs Completed > 4/18
- First ad group preparation 4/23-4/25?
- Launch 4/26?

Most of this timeline depends on bug fixes and assuring that things won't go belly up after we launched the paid clients.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.
 
We're now disabling the test advertisements.

Further details to follow later, we are now fixing some issues that are still pending.

Thank you for your understanding and support!
 
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