Thanks to our private beta testers
July 13th, 2009 by JasperI would like to thank all of our private beta testers for their work over the last few months.
From now on we will be gradually brining more users on board (again apologies to everyone that has registered for being later than we expected).
The key issue we have had to address since we started testing is around version management. We originally built a rather traditional version control mechanism, but the private beta has revealed that this does not work well when file versioning is combined with real time changes.
For those interested, the new approach uses a class of algorithm called operational transform – and incidentally Google Wave uses a similar approach. This took us longer to implement than we anticipated but it is now in place and we are rolling it out.