Hey everyone. Just wanted to open up our beta site up for users to take a look, have a test drive, and see our progress as we inch closer to the go-live D-Day. The beta site is based on a backup from earlier this week, so all the content is there for you to play around with.
You should be able to login using your existing credentials from here. If you don't know your password, you can use the beta site's forgot my password to retrieve it (it won't affect the current forums password). Hopefully your email is up to date, because we won't be updating emails on the beta site.
Throughout the next week(s), we will be refreshing the database from the live instance when needed and without notice, so expect your posts to randomly disappear there. If you update your email here, a future database refresh will push the emails to the beta site when we run a refresh.
Please note the current Known Issues list below, these are things on our radar that we're working on. Feel free to give us some feedback on what you like, don't like, suggestions, etc. and I'll filter things down to our development team. The site is designed for desktop, tablets and mobile, so any feedback should note what platform you're on. Please only post feedback over here in our live site and not the test site. We won't be monitoring posts there.
The test site is located at: http://beta.beyond.ca
Enjoy!
Known Issues
1. Trader rating missing.
2. User rating missing.
3. [video] tag is new for embedding all video formats. Accepts full URLs.
4. Rules page missing: http://forums.beyond.ca/articles.php?action=data&item=1
5. SOLD and FOUND prefixes missing. To be added to marketplace prefixes.
6. The highlighted edges can be double clicked on a desktop to mark forum as read. Can't do that on mobile.
7. Link to View Active Discussions in last 24 hours missing from Nav Menu
8. "What I drive" is missing.
9. Messy and redundant Nav links.
10. Beyond.ca logo links to forums (was linked to blog)
11. Missing Terms of Use, Advertising Info, and Car Blog on bottom bar.
12. Various font sizes and spacing. We're currently tweaking and optimizing against multiple devices so things may look funky as we finalize the targets.
13. @Mentions aren't setup yet.