It's been 5 days since I launched JungleDragon Alpha. I just deployed revision 1, which contains a number of improvements and fixes. Before I discuss those, allow me to give a short status update:

• There are currently 10 registered testers. This passes the minimum of 5 needed for the contest (where you can win 100$) to be valid. I am happy with a test base of 10 for now, it actually exceeds my expectations. People do this voluntarily in their own time, I was not expecting a mass audience. Still, I am looking for much more testers so feel free to join us (http://staging.jungledragon.com)
• There are roughly 60 unique test findings so far. I agree with 70% and will fix those soon, 15% needs more discussion, 15% I disagree with or have a low priority. This proves that I am really listening to you.
• So far I have encountered no shocking revelations. There is a few bugs, usability ad styling problems, but no serious issues that break or undermine the application. 
• There is a nice base set of content uploaded, roughly 200 images that are accurately tagged and described, a great starting point for other testers to work with. It it worth mentioning though, that most content was uploaded by one tester.

I find it always both scary and very exciting to see other people using something you build. It is a humbling, yet very educational experience. Although this test approach adds substantial work to my todo list, it is meaningful work that will improve the whole.

So far the update. Hereby the list of updates deployed as part of Alpha revision 1:

• The tags associated with an image were cleared when editing the license of the image. This is now fixed.
• A slight styling bug in the About section caused anchors to be underlined. Fixed.
• Favicon is improved and more consistent with JungleDragon branding.
• Options in the footer are now highlighted when selected.
• Social image editing is now enabled starting from the Bullet Ant class
• You no longer earn karma for editing your own images, as that encourages to not supply image details during upload.
• Time indication of content uploads was sometimes "one hour ago" and sometimes "1 hr ago", this is now consistently "1 hr ago"
• Tag names are now propercased for the first word, lowercased for all words following
• Tag names are now truncated so that they do not break the layout when they are extremely lengthy
• On the tag page, the tags are now displayed after each other, not in a table. This fixes a lot of layout issues, although I am considering undoing this change. What do you think?
• Description of King Cobra made consistent with defense capabilities
• When you reach your treshold of image edits per hour or day you now see this upfront, not after trying to make an edit
• Styling issue: on lower resolutions, the top header image is intersected with vertical solid green bars. Fixed.
• There no longer is a restriction on the amount of image edits performed on your own images.
• FAQ page now has "back to top" links for easier navigation
• External links now open in a new window
• Naming of terms and conditions page is now consistent
• Redirect error when cancelling a sign in is fixed
• Content tree of About section is now complete, no more "hidden" pages

Thank you for your feedback so far and keep it coming. This revision fixes only a subset of the total list, so I will now proceed to implement the remaining changes into a set of additional revisions.

Update:  I made a small deployment error that caused all images uploaded so far to be promoted to the homepage. This is now fixed. In case you were wondering what is going on in your karma log :)

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