The Continuing Saga of the "Soft Launch"

• Posted by katieglover April 10, 2011 Filed in Society Girl's Personal Blogs #Soft Launch  2,859 views
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  And so dear reader, the "Soft Launch" continues.  We had hoped that we could have a big new site launch party in a blaze of publicity this weekend but alas, it was not to be.

  The trouble is down to the membership subscription system which appears to be suffering from various teething problems and refuses to allow some members to upgrade or it will upgrade them and then lock them out of the site.  Even the administrator (ie me) can't re-enable their accounts.

  So, we have to wait for the developers to come back into work tomorrow in the hope that they can fix it.

  I am at least pleased that we have managed to move on quite a lot in the last week and that the site is now live after months of work.  The initial problems on launch were fixed within about 24 hours and the page load times have improved greatly with an average load time currently of just under 5 seconds.  I think that's pretty good.  Even Facebook would be happy about that kind of speed.

  Once we get this last big hurdle out of the way (the membership probs) we should be good to go.

  And thanks for your support during this difficult but exciting time.

  Hugs, Katie   x