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Rustan Håkansson
Sweden
Norrköping
finishing it!
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When you are invited to participate in the beta you will receive an email with a link to this post and some additional passwords and links. To be as open as possible I post this information here, but we need to limit the number of beta testers to what we know we can manage, that is the reason for restricting access.
Welcome to the Beta Test of the new User Interface for BoardGameGeek!
Install and configure plugin
You need to use Firefox, Chrome or Internet explorer to report bugs and improvements, and you need to install and configure the BugDigger plugin in your browser. (It is also possible to create reports without the BugDigger plugin, see the end of this post.) Go to this page and download the appropriate plugin, then restart your browser:
http://bugdigger.com/browser-add-on/download/
If you test in a browser that the BugDigger plugin is not available for, please report with one that has it and edit the Environment field to reflect the operating system and browser you tested with.
You should now have a button that looks similar to this somewhere in your browser:
Click the arrow, and click BugDigger Servers.
If you have Google Chrome you instead go to the Extensions Manager page (open chrome://settings/extensions), click Options.
Remove the default BugDigger server, and add a new with Name:"BGG JIRA" and URL as listed in your email.
BugDigger has a configuration help page as well where parts of this information was taken from: http://bugdigger.com/jira/start/
Use the beta site
Browse the beta site (address and password in the email), log in with your normal account, browse anonymously or log in with the test account (in the email) and use it like you would use the current site. Report on things you find if it seems like it should work but does not, or something that really should be improved. Please look at the latest Friday post to see what areas still need major work and are know to not be complete.
When you are specifically looking to help with testing things, please read the last Friday blog post which will tell you what we focus on for this week. These are the reports that are of the most use, and will be worked on the soonest. Report on even quite small things, like minor position issues. This is the area we want to complete right now. Reports on other things than the focus area are great too, but there might be work done on them already but that are not in the release of the beta that you are testing.
Create a report
When you are on a page that you want to report something on, click the BugDigger icon (or drop-down menu and select Send to BGG JIRA, depending on your browser). A new window is opened and in a couple of seconds a screenshot of the page you visited (showing only the page) will be automatically attached.
A history file listing the URLs and the response codes you got when visiting them is also attached, including the recent (seems to be the current day) URLs and only from the beta site. The history is useful for us to track down what went wrong, if you do not want to share that (or the screenshot or the environment) please click the checkbox next to it to stop it from being uploaded.
Read the descriptions under the fields, the more of them that you fill in the easier and faster it will be for us to sort and prioritize the reports. Do not fill in too much, try to only include information relevant to solving the issue. Additional images are great if you are explaining complicated things.
If you want to report on something general you can remove the information in the Environment field and remove the attachments (just remove the checks next to each file).
Click "Create", and you are done.
After posting you will get short thank you message. You can then close the window.
Edit uploaded screenshots with BugDigger
It is possible to edit the automatically captured screenshots. Click the image to edit, add arrows, text and field marks, click save, and you will see a new additional screenshot attached. You can deselect the original screenshot to not upload that one.
Reporting without BugDigger
It is also possible to create reports without the BugDigger plugin. This is useful if you use a browser that the plugin is not available for. Go to the URL listed in the invitation email as the address you should fill in for the BugDigger servers. Do not log in. Click the small menu item "+Create Issue" up right on the screen, then click "Create" and fill in the forms the same way as described above. Please fill in the environment field (your OS and browser) and upload screenshots and images yourself, as that is not done automatically here.
Thanks!
We will not answer most reports directly to you as it would take too much time, but list the most important things that have been updated or are problematic in the blog posts here.
Thank you for helping us make BoardGameGeek even better!
[Edit 2012-01-23: The BugDigger developers have implemented our feature requests, reporting is now faster, easier and we could add our own thank you note after the issue was created. The unnecessary instructions have been removed, above is how it works now. Thank you!]
[Edit 2012-01-25: Added note on history file and screenshot]
[Edit 2012-02-06: Added note that uploading additional files does not work]
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It is possible to edit the automatically captured screenshots. Click the image to edit, add arrows, text and field marks, click save, and you will see a new additional screenshot attached. You can deselect the original screenshot to not upload that one.
) I began to wonder if there is a document outlining some sort of vision what the new layout is supposed to accomplish. 
