Getting Closer...

To follow up on Mena's post , we are entering the final 24 hours (or so) until the public release of Comet.  Or, as it will soon be known Vox .  We probably weren't as clear about this as we could have been, but Comet was the code name we came up with last September when we first presented this product at Demo. For those of you in the web 2.0 trivia crowd, "Comet" is a reference to Ajax (and a much better kitchen cleaner, mind you).

Anyway, on behalf of the entire Comet/Vox team, we'd like to thank you all for participating in the alpha release these past few weeks. Vox would not be what it is without all of the great feedback, comments, thoughts (and not a few criticisms) you've given us. We firmly believe that while we write code and design pages, you build the site. We hope you've enjoyed this advance look and that you continue to be an active participant in this community.

A couple of housekeeping issues (which also allow me to finally use the bullet point feature in our wysiwyg editor):

• Over the next 24 hours, we will be doing some final stress testing on the site. It's possible that some of what we do will cause temporary outages but we promise if that happens it'll come back up soon.
• When we do the transition from Comet to Vox, there will probably be additional down-time, measured in minutes. We don't have an exact time for this conversion but it should be some time before end of Thursday business hours (pacific time).
• All notcomet.com URLs will be automatically forwarded to vox.com URLs.  You should plan on updating your browser bookmarks and shortcuts over time, but notcomet.com URLs will continue to work.  This includes links within your blog to posts, photos and other pages on notcomet.com.
• Most importantly, all of the content you have created on Comet will live on in Vox... the account you have now is yours for the keeping.

Once Vox is released to the public, we will begin to allow you to invite your friends and family... you're probably sick of ours by now. When this feature is available, you will see a banner on the Vox home page. But we'll explain more about that feature later.

Again, I want to thank you all for joining us on Comet. It's been great fun building Comet to where it is today and we can't wait to dig back in to take Vox to where it wants to go tomorrow.

- Andrew