Firstly i should start by apologising for the grammar as im doing this post from my mobile as i have given my house key to a friend and am now locked out in the pub passing time. Anyway... Onwards and upwards!

So this last week we got 2.0 to our chapter members. Something i was really nervous about - particularly with the new upgrade script - but so far things are looking pretty good. With a few exceptions feedback seems to be generally positive and Ive certainly not seen any reports of dead forums or shoots in server load so performance is hopefully at least on a par with 1.1 so no foul ups there.

What Ive absolutely loved the last week is the amount of well articulated and useful feedback we have had from our charter members. We have a dedicated board for 2.0 and about half of it is bug reports (which we are working through) but the other half is absolute gold for a developer. Thanks to the great feedback i know that making custom profiles searchable from the memberllist, our new "key features" page link to the relevant page and the warning system simpler to use will make the features 10x better. This is just an off the cuff memory of some of the bits.

Just like the feature request board i read every single post on 2.0 and it really shows to me the value our charter members add by helping us catch the "duh" things we often miss before we release to the masses!

Of course beta 2 will be more that just tweaks and fixes but whilst we have more in the pipeline our priority is getting 2.0 more stable. I really cant wait for the public release of 2.0 but im afraid that is still a way away. For those not in the charter programme i say "hold on, enjoy 1.1 and feel good that the charter program benefits everyone by making it much simple for up to debug and provide a stable release to the public"