PSA: What you need to know about the DU4 beta test

[EarlG]

Last edited Wed Sep 6, 2023, 12:23 PM - Edit history (1)

A lot of folks have questions about DU4 and I'm happy to answer them, but there are a couple of problems: 1) I'm having to answer the same questions repeatedly, and 2) Questions are being posted all over the place making them harder to keep track of.

This short post is intended to give you some quick info and pointers so you can best help us with the test.

What you need to know right now

This is an unfinished version of the DU4 software. There will be bugs, and you will find things that don't work, or look wrong, or are missing, or are in the wrong place.

The purpose of this ongoing test is so we can learn about and then try to fix any technical or general issues DU members are having.

• The DU4 Bug Reports forum, for reporting technical issues, can be found at Navigate > Help & Search.


• The DU4 Questions & Answers forum -- for general Q&A, no bug reports please -- can be found in the same location.

If you can't find something you're looking for, there's a reason that it's moved. Feel free to ask about it. If there's something you need -- a missing feature, an improvement to something -- again, feel free to ask about it.

You should definitely read this if you haven't already. It contains a lot of useful information.

Edited to add: There is also a full feature list here!

DU4 is designed to be customizable. If you don't like the way something looks, you might find a setting to improve it by going to My Stuff > Account Settings. There are a number of visual options that you can change. If you can't find the answer there, ask about it in DU4 Questions & Answers and we might be able to come up with a solution.

Finally, my advice is just explore. All of the pages that you have on DU, like your My Posts page, your Bookmarks, Profile, Inbox, Journal, etc. etc. -- all exist on DU4, and they shouldn't be difficult to find. The Latest page, forums, threads -- the core of DU -- has not changed at all. What you will find if you explore, however, are some new pages and features we've included. Don't be afraid to just look around and kick the tires, or, you know, click the buttons.

I don't mind answering questions in this thread, but if you do have a question, you might want to check out the Questions & Answers forum first to see if it's been asked and answered already. And if you have a bug report, please use the Bug Reports forum.

Thanks!