Even here we’re aware of and careful about PII issues. But PII and being able to communicate are nearly orthogonal. You and I are communicating, but what we know about each other is limited to what we choose to disclose.

It’s under our control, not WTs …unless they decide to pull the plug, (as they frequently do when they don’t like what’s being said and don’t think the Streisand effect will be worse than the convo). When that happens, the evicted move to other fora if they still care, like https://www.reddit.com/r/textblade/

Having beta users able to communicate is invaluable on a complex product because they’re able to compare notes.

How things could be this far down the road with the volumes claimed and still no shippable product simply beggars belief. I’d be very surprised if anybody is doing significant testing at this point beyond a few actual employees at Waytools/NextEngine (fewer then ten, I’d guess; probably a lot fewer) and the TREGgers, most of whom are active here.

Frankly, I think we’ve been misled about number of orders and number of testers…and creating the impression of a cloud of testers you somehow can’t see is likely a part of that.