Roundhouse Kick
Posted by Mark Tue, 07 Mar 2006 02:13:00 GMT
The Roundhouse Kick release came out on Wednesday and we want to hear if you think we are heading in the right direction. Post a quick comment below to help motivate us towards the March 14th and April 4th releases. Usual t-shirt offer will apply…
I am missing something? Why did you call it roundhouse kick?
Good question. Sorry I don’t have a good answer … we’ve been doing random names for our releases for months now. I think the Roundhouse Kick was some reference to a recent Chuck Norris phase around the office. The release before this one was called the Chucktatorship ...
having an ok day! definitely on the right track….. search is still not quite as intuitive as i’d hope. i’ve been using it mainly for scripture references… one thing that might seem a bit silly, but bugs me is that the arrow scrolls the paragraph too quickly. more later..
Keep the Chuck Norris jokes coming!
Once budget season officially ends in a few days, I do plan on participating in the conversation here. SOMEONE’S gotta keep Dax Vader from crushing the Rebel Alliance.
Nothing is showing in the main text screen based on a search, and that’s a little confusing. When I see “No answer data for “sarah” yet in the alpha library. Stay tuned for more content in the coming weeks.” I think the search was no good. It’d be cool if what did display was some of the search results.
Good work! Seeing a lot of the changes done from previous comments. I found myself saying, “oh they added that, cool, oh they fixed that.” Even though these were all things to work on it still feels good to see changes that you coment on.
Chad – You are not the first person to say this and it has caused a lot of debate around here. We think the confusion would be reduced when the “answer data” is coming from a larger number of titles instead of the 2 titles right now. But … we have retracted to a new UI coming next week that should alleviate this confusion entirely. We are bringing back an intermediate Search Engine Results Page that features the Bible search results. Thanks for confirming it!
Things are looking pretty good. I’m getting a weird quirk. A couple of times, when I clicked on the commentary icon and the box opened, on clicking a cross-reference link, I was booted back to the log-on page. No pattern that I could see and I didn’t note any particular link creating the problem.
Ian – nice bug find. This was a simple cookie problem between www.ebible.com and just ebible.com. The cross-reference links were to the other URL where you technically did not log into – so it took you to a login page. Fixed up though for next week’s release, thanks!
I haven’t had the chance to play as much as I would like, but I thought I would at least do some brown-nosing for a tee shirt!
In a word – AWESOME!!!! This is really shaping up to being an incredible site. I love the functionality, and like the way the results are being presented. Way to go! I can’t wait to see more.
I’m really starting to like this as well. It’s coming along nicely.
I just had a similar issue with the links in the commentary. Instead of being kicked anywhere, it just did nothing.
Also the scroll bar on the right, which scrolls way too fast is causing text to disappear when I was using parallel Bible versions.
Sorry…one more comment as I continue to use the site. The parallel versions do not line up in my search. They really should. Just a thought.
Thanks….
Jeremy – It’s official, we are slowing down the bible browser scrolling speed :-) We actually have plans down the road to put a fancy scroll bar widget there.
Parallel viewing is synchronized to each chapter right now. This was the best we could do until we introduce putting each verse on a new line. This will allow us to synchronize at each verse and is planned. Just not for a while.
Keep the little and big thoughts coming everyone!
When I tried your suggested search for “Heaven”, this is the result I got:
1. Eternal abode of God, the uncreated spiritual realm inhabited by God as well as his angels. 2. Source of everything that is good and changeless and proceeds from God. Thus, in Matthew the question is asked, “Whence was it from? From heaven or from men?” (). Jesus and his work are from “heaven” and from “above” (, , ). Accordingly, “every good gift and every perfect gift is from above” (), and the Lord’s Prayer is that God’s will be done “on earth, as it is in heaven” (). 3. Believer’s hope and eternal home which “eye has not seen, nor ear heard” (). It is a place of love (; ), rest (), joy (), knowledge (), and perfect harmony (; ).
What are all the empty paranthesis?
Sorry for the second post, but a couple of more observations:
1. When I opened up all three Bibles in parallel the text of the third Bible on the right margin at the top was covered by the scroll arrows. (Not sure if this has been brought up before. Sorry if it has).
2. Opening the parallel Bibles is a two step process – click open in parallel, and then choose your Bible version. Can you make that simpler by adding the drop-down first? That way you only have to choose the version to open it in parallel.
Thanks…
1. Any chance you can speed up the scrolling speed instead? :) It’s too slow!! ;)
2. When you pull up a reading that spans chapters (ie; 1 tim 1:18-2:15 in my case). It only highlights up to the end of the first chapter (up to 1:20). It should probably highlight the whole bit.
3. In the future is there going to be a mechanism for me to save some preferences? (ie: preferred bible, font size, scroll speed, bookmarks, etc…). It would be nice not to have to re-open all the bibles to the every time….
The process to open parallel Bibles is being working on just like you suggested Scott. Great minds think alike ;-)
“My Account” (aka preferences) are on the way too Jeremy. And what are your thoughts for the scrolling speed everyone? Right now it scrolls at a medium speed when you mouseover the arrows and at a high speed when you actually click on an arrow. Let us know your thoughts on speeding up or slowing down one or both. Easy to tweak.
Hey, The site works pretty well, and I am impressed. The site is clean, and the search works well. There are a couple of technical items I have for suggestions:
Get the site working for safari (I know it’s a small market).
I searched 2 peter 3:9, clicked on the commentary, then proceded to click on the link to timothy at the bottom of the commentary. I was booted to the log-on screen.
cheers
Wondering if a histogram can be implemented for search results so that in an example like “heaven”, that it showed all the books of the Bible and then the number of occurences of that word would show up in (88) and then you could expand on those 88 to keep on honing in until you find your verse… Could be a powerful way of finding your verse, more graphical based on a little amount of knowledge of where that verse is.
You can open up the commmentary for a single verse multiple times. This probably shouldn’t happen.
This is one of the most exciting developents that I have come across. Having the scriptures come to life on the screen with the little c that leads to commentary is right on target! I wish I had my laptop hooked into a projector with this booming on a 12 X 12 screen
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