First User Impressions
Clearly, this is an extensive piece of code, and great effort has been put into already. The writers deserve great accolades on at least three different factors...
I. Attitude
II. Effort
III. Results
This was my first attempt to ever enter the TMF chat room.
<B>Suggestions:</B>
-1- Remove the link to the old non-existant chat room from the front page (i.e.,
http://www.ticklingforum.com/)
-2- Provide a first-timers area for people who don't know how to push the buttons. I felt like a fool. (Go with your feelings ?)
-3- Provide instructions on where to post chat-room questions; like perhaps, <I>Technical Discussions</I> maybe ? Idunno; just somewhere.
<B>My Own Initial Experience:</B>
-A- Upon startng the app, my screen blinked and jumped a lot, with approximately zero text information about what was happening.
-B- When I clicked the mouse on a button, that button didn't move or respond in any manner. Two or three minutes later the response apparently came through.
-C- I tried entering text into my text editor and then cut-and-pasting it into the field at the bottom. So far I haven't figured this out.
-D- The fonts are too small for me to read.
-E- The fonts change colors. One time my own message did so without my conscious and/or willful actions. After awhile the font colors seem to change again, sometimes changing the color of extant messages as they scroll up.
-F- The whole screen/window area repeatedly flashes and changes appearance with text dancing around at apparently random times in separate places within the window the screen.
This was an initial user experience, spending 20-to-30 minutes in front of the screen. The user has had TMF membership for approximately half a year. User's over-all computer skills are loosely within the upper quartile range of the general populace.
End of report 001, software testing and validation.
