Youmeo, the new leaf.

[Klydo]

We work more than nights, there's been days where I don't get to bed until 9am. So to say;

"Work nights?"

Is just taking the mick.

[Janczyk]

No.

Shut the site down from 12am -6am and work on it from there, every day for a week.

[Source]

Klydo we don't need to know how much time you spend working on this? Some people work alot longer than you do in work that involves physical elements and not just sat there in front of a screen conserving energy. Yes its hard, but no-one is forcing you to do this - you just said yourself you have no deadlines.

It seems like your trying to make us feel sorry for how hard your working in an attempt to use the site more. I'm normally wrong so forgive me if that is not the case. We only need to know there is going to be a BETA and you are working more than office hours.

Good luck with the BETA though, as everyone has said it needs to be redone. The current site at the moment in my eyes, can't even be classed as a site - more like a testing area for snippets of code :/ Just make sure you don't screw up the design making it overly complex, luckily we all know your brilliant @ web2.0 designs so that won't make it an issue. Sometimes the look has more todo with the site than functionality.

[Dentafrice]

As I said, we're working on a whole new site with Nick's coding. That way everything should be cleaner and simpler. Rather than editing the current site and wasting our time, we've completely redone everything. This way you guys won't have anything to complain about in the future. For now the site will sit being developed by our other coders while the BETA is being created. We will all just have to put up with this until we have completed the BETA.

Like I've said numerous times, we'd love to be able to make the site bug free in a week like you all say is possible but it's just not. First of all we can't close the site to work on it so every page has to be duplicated then worked on in private then uploaded once done. This normally causes so much extra work that in the end the edits you made seem worthless.

Trust me when I say that the new Youmeo is a million times better than the old. This time around we have no deadlines therefore it won't be rushed. We also have Nick and myself working as a team just across from each other therefore we can discuss just about everything that is happening. No longer will we have to communicate to our coders via MSN or email which often causes problems and set backs.

I wouldn't have gotten Calum to hire Nick if I was wanting to just sit back and watch the site as it is. You got to realise that Youmeo is very different from your average site you'll find on here. It has the media coverage and we have to be careful in what we do. To the media a broken site is still a site, however if we close it for weeks they it's no longer news.

So you can either have a broken site that's popular for the time being or a closed site that loses all coverage and activeness. Therefore getting hits and pageviews back will be a nightmare after Calum has spent years building it up.

Just be aware that we work constantly on this project, I had a half day yesterday as I had family visiting. That's all the time I've actually been out of the office other than to sleep this week - so we're working our behinds off to make our users happy.

Congratulations you have media coverage, and you have an secure site with 400,000 users' data on the line, and you refuse to fix the bugs?

I wonder what the media would think of that, as well as their investors.. YouMeo not sticking to their privacy policy and protecting users' data?

Ouch. The site they just gave major credit to.

Instead of starting on a brand new site, why put those users' data at risk, and not fix the major bugs in the first place?

Or either close the site, because as it is right now, it really is no use to anyone.. it is awful.

Who cares? A broken site is a broken site.. it is useless, about as useless as a wet tissue.

If you are going to loose traffic, you are going to loose traffic. You are going to loose even more traffic if some idiot hacks your site and releases user information.

[IDontKnow]

Hey,

Looking very good there. Should be interesting to see further development and if you're taking investors, the future may look bright.

[loserWILL]

I'd rather you have a non-popular but safe site than a popular but un-safe site.

[Typography]

I've wondered this, but is your employer up to standards with conducts and regulations employers should be? He looks young and I wouldn't be surprised if some regulations on employment and working conditions are poorly looked upon.

[Source]

Its perfectly fine if the employee is volunteering todo those hours because he enjoys it.

But Calum probably does look over those factors.

edit // did I mention they are all the bestest of freinds

[Janczyk]

I've wondered this, but is your employer up to standards with conducts and regulations employers should be? He looks young and I wouldn't be surprised if some regulations on employment and working conditions are poorly looked upon.

Yes, actually.

Working regulations state that under 18's CANNOT work past between 11PM and 6AM.

[today]

And how many people actually obey that, please adam.