New Loomio features ready for beta testing
Robert Guthrie
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The Loomio dev team is thrilled share that we've been developing some exciting new features and that we're looking for beta testers to help us prepare them for public release.
New decision types
New decision types is a document which introduces our suite of new decision tools including: Dot Vote, Schedule a meeting, Count, Poll and of course Proposal.
Instant Loomio
Instant Loomio means you can share a Loomio decision with people who have never used Loomio before. Participation is quick and easy - there is no signup or passwords to stumble upon, and no loomio groups to join before you get started.
Here's a video James made to demo it
Join the feature testing group.
There is work to do before we can release these features to the public. To help uncover this work, we are looking for groups and individuals willing to help test it.
If you think your group is up for testing the new decision types, or if you are keen to try the instant Loomio features with some understanding people join our Feature testing group.
Danyl Strype Fri 7 Apr 2017 12:23PM
@robertguthrie I'm happy to beta test any new features on a number of little-used groups I'm an admin on. I'm hoping it might even help get members excited about engaging on Loomio again. These groups are:
* Alternatives Working Group
* Aotearoa General Assembly
* Aotearoa Permaculture Network
* Meshed
Question: do existing groups get smoothly upgraded as the underlying code changes, or do older groups sometimes miss out on newer features or erode over time in some way? In other words, for a group who haven't had any important discussion/ decisions in their Loomio group yet, would there be any advantage in setting up a fresh group?
Robert Guthrie Sat 8 Apr 2017 1:00AM
Happy to bring on more groups after our deploy early next week. Then the feedback will be more useful to us.
Great to know it's something you want to use, thanks for the support!
James Kiesel Fri 7 Apr 2017 2:22PM
@strypey We've set up a smooth migration flow from old proposal-only groups to new-instant-loomio groups, so I can't really think of any advantages to starting a new group to turn the new features on. (And we also still have all of your old proposals, so a backwards migration is also possible if things really aren't working for whatever reason)
James Kiesel · Fri 7 Apr 2017 2:26PM
It's a bit of a jagged UX piece we have on our list to fix. Right now the 'denominator' of a count defaults to the poll's group size (which is 0 if there's no group). However, because Instant Loomio can allow visitors to vote, we don't really have a great way of predicting what the denominator should be for a count (How many people have access to a shareable link? We have no idea!)
We're going to put in a 'goal' option for counts, so we can say 'I was expecting ~10 responses, and I got them, hooray!'... but we'll likely need another try or two to get a watertight UX here.