The Ring is going live today?? 9/20???

[raynes]

So why dont you get stuck into some scenario creative dialog ...get me in there and have lets have some fun with it while it lasts
Zigy

Don't worry I am.

[truce1]

Who cares?

I havent found a bug yet, and it feels very solid.

Any changes they need to make would most likely be things you just cant account for untill live.

[xenofur]

raynes, either you think we're lying and should say so out loud, so we can start ignoring you, or you're a complete idiot.

btw, live != beta

[andypur1]

What's hard to grasp is they went from ALPHA to Live in 9 days.

And so what if they did? Alpha software doesn't have to be unstable / unfinished.

I was accepted as part of the second wave of alpha-testers (from mid-August). I personally would say that the alpha that I was using, at that time, looked pretty stable to me and maybe should have been labelled a closed-beta instead. I imagine that the alpha label was because they were still undertaking tests and occasionally things wouldn't be running. We also had a lot more freedom to add things which wouldn't be available to all when the ring was opened (no ring points etc.). I imagine that the first wave of testers had a much tougher time of things

Alpha and beta labels are all pretty relative anyway. If the labelling of software was done properly, it should go from alpha to omega