Anton: Anton: agree that anyone involved in the test group should keep there status up to date

I won’t go quite that far. I will say that they should certainly keep WT informed - otherwise don’t sign up for treg to begin with. But yeah, it would be nice if testers helped other testers have some idea of progress by letting us know their situation. It would be based on a small group, but hey, a comparison of 100 experiences is a whole lot better than none! And it’s all we have to go on for such data. And I think they should say some things to other folks here since non-treg members only have WayTools and treg members to learn anything from. Whether WT posts or not, we can provide a fair amount of stuff ourselves.

Anton: Anton: I think if a tester is not finding issues, that should be reported too. Which is not that natural state for a tester!

Absolutely true. Same logic I apply to WT - new info is especially good, but there is a place to also say things like, “We still have no hardware related issues”. Simply because the longer that is true, the more likely it will stay true.

Anton: Anton: March will mark 2 years of user testing.

Officially that will me March 28. First units were sent out on Saturday, the 26th so received the following Monday.

It is a long time, but I think I know why some of it happened. I suspect some other delays may be for roughly similar reasons, but those areas often involve technology that is way over my knowledge so much harder to tell.

Anton: Anton: Just the other evening I was thinking about the ‘jumps’ function.

Good point, but, unless you almost never switch, I think you’ll find having multiple slots already paired to be a big deal. For me, it’s sort of like editing. Before the TB, my typical approach was to move off the keyboard, grab the mouse, and put the cursor where I wanted (or drag across something, etc). So I could say something like, “We really don’t need this extra keyboard editing on the TB”. But it is designed so well, and so easy to do, that now I wouldn’t want to be without it!

Anton: Anton: But didn’t follow up by email, advertising my skills, as this wasn’t a published requirement.

It isn’t a requirement. Some people did opt to send them such information. Whether it helped them or not, I don’t know. Certainly many who sent in things were not selected and many who didn’t were selected.

I think their selections from the forum were based mostly on things they had already read from posters. I always though it was fairly easy to tell who might be a good tester and who wouldn’t. There would certainly be many I would have no idea about, but for their selection process, that wouldn’t matter. They simply need, at any given time, X number of new testers. They only need enough that they consider acceptable to fill those spots. You could still make it. Treg testing is expected to continue after shipping. While I think they did choose some people based on their specific skills, I think mostly they just wanted to get a somewhat random set of ordinary people to give them a broader base of typing styles. So you could fit in just fine. I think maybe the single biggest thing for selection is whether someone seems thoughtful in their writing - even if it is critical of WT.

You post above seems well thought out. I looked at your previous ones (there are only 2 earlier ones). They seem the same. The first one had plenty of criticisms, but no ranting and wild exaggerations. You actually made some criticisms that I made myself (which is why I know your post was thoughtful )

There are a couple people I’d put ahead of you, but only because they have described uses that I’m really curious about, even though they aren’t my use cases.