JungleDragon alpha environment is live! »

FERDY CHRISTANT - JUL 28, 2010 (11:19:24 AM)

Dear friends, loyal readers and newcomers,

For quite a while I have been working on my pet project JungleDragon, a social image sharing community that focuses on nature and photography. Today, the very first public test version is launched and I need your help to test it. Everybody is invited, including your friends, coworkers and family. The best tester can win a cash price of 100$!

It does not matter whether you actively test or just peek around, all feedback is welcome. Please do consider the following important resources:

staging.jungledragon.com (the permanent test location)
About the test environment and contest
How to give test feedback
JungleDragon FAQ (gets you acquainted with the project and features)
JungleDragon Facebook fanpage (where you go for feedback and discussions)
JungleDragon blog (behind the scenes development updates)

If you are in my network, I may bother you via other ways as well.

Special thanks to Bas Peters for sponsoring and helping to setup the test environment, and of course many thanks to you in advance for helping out!

Enjoy. I need you.

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COMMENT: KAMLESH SINGH

JUL 28, 2010 - 04:14:37 PM

comment » Wow this is really cool. Glad to see this and I believe a lot of work would have gone in to get this up and running.

With Best Regards

Kamlesh «

COMMENT: FERDY

JUL 28, 2010 - 20:45:52

comment » @Kamlesh: Thanks! Yes indeed, it was a lot of work and a lot of work is ahead of me, but I enjoy working on it «

COMMENT: DRAGON COTTERILL

JUL 29, 2010 - 12:32:24

comment » Woohoo! Ready to go to work on this. Love to test it.

Ummm. Are you aware that the photos don't seem to be working? They being requested from staging.media.jungledragon.com not sure if that is right. «

COMMENT: FERDY

JUL 29, 2010 - 12:48:49 PM

comment » @Dragon: I'm glad you're excited!

What exactly do you mean with "not working"? The request adddress you mention is correct, it is an alias for an Amazon S3 bucket. As I am checking now, all photos show just fine. Can you please check again or give me more details? «

COMMENT: DRAGON COTTERILL

JUL 29, 2010 - 15:12:17

comment » @Ferdy

It appears that staging.media.jungledragon.com does not resolve to a DNS entry as I cannot resolve, ping, or tracert to it. «

COMMENT: FERDY

JUL 29, 2010 - 19:25:33

comment » @Dragon: Thats strange, so you see no photographs at all? Can you email me a screenshot perhaps?

I have not had this problem with anyone else yet, here and at other testers they see all photographs just fine. Really curious to see what is going on. «

COMMENT: DRAGON COTTERILL

JUL 29, 2010 - 19:55:56

comment » OK, now I'm connected to a UK network and DNS servers I can see the images. At work on a US connection the DNS is failing. Wonder if it's an update issue? «

COMMENT: FERDY

JUL 29, 2010 - 20:32:11

comment » @Dragon: not sure. The staging.media.jungledragon.com url is an alias for an Amazon S3 bucket, which should be globally accessible. The URLs are signed with an expiration date though, so you can only temporarily use them outside jungledragon itself (this is to protect my bandwidth bill for now).

Any US testers out here want to check if they can see images at staging.jungledragon.com? «

COMMENT: DILEEP K SHARMA

JUL 31, 2010 - 05:14:06 PM

comment » Wooooooooooooooooow!!!!!!!!!! This is so cool!!! I can't imagine that something I have been waiting for so long is live now. Congratulations Ferdy!! You have done a tremendous job. All the best! «