Angry Monkeys

We’ve been working hard on the latest update to fivesecondtest.com. We’ve made a lot of changes, many of which won’t be visible in the update, but there are some fairly notable changes that WILL be visible in the next few days.

The first major change is the addition of Premium tests. Yes, we all knew it was coming eventually!

The first thing I have to mention is that our free tests will remain free in exactly the same state that they are now, and will forever remain free! Premium tests, however, give you three benefits (with more to come!).

1. You will receive double the number of responses given to free tests.
2. You will receive your results much quicker than free tests.
3. You get to feel good about supporting fivesecondtest.com!

One thing, that hasn’t been terribly clear in the past is that tests don’t keep getting results forever. Whilst it may seem a little unfair, currently most tests will receive about 12 results. We don’t decide this, it is a factor of how many tests are created versus how many responses are given. At the moment, that ratio is 12 to 1. That means for every test that is created today, 12 tests are viewed. The upshot of this is that we spread the love evenly, ensuring that all users get roughly the same number of results.

For some people, 12 results isn’t enough, whilst for others 12 is plenty. So we’re giving you the choice. Upgrade if you wan’t, but don’t feel obligated! Keep in mind this also about the speed in which you get your results, not just the quanitity!

The astute among you may realise that if premium test are getting MORE results, then everyone else must be getting less! You’d be correct. Partially. Another thing we’re trying to do in this release, and more so in the future, is promoting the idea of Karma. We’re letting you see who is doing your test, to give you an opportunity to do theirs in return. At the moment this is purely to help you help those that helped you. In the future, their will be benefits to your kindness…and yes we ARE watching who is being naughty and nice.

Another feature we’re adding is the non-repetition of tests. Once you’ve done a test, you should never see it again. If you do, one of two things has happened… someone has created multiple tests that LOOK the same, or my code is broken…in which case, let me know!!

We’ve now added a really nice manage page. This is a central location for managing your tests. Here you can enable, disable, upgrade, share and delete all your tests. In the future we’ll be adding more features here, for example, the ability to get results in your inbox, or subscribe to an RSS feed for a test’s results.

We haven’t changed the actual test process too much, although we’ve made it a little quicker for people who’ve seen the instructions before, you won’t have to sit through them again. The upload process has been revamped to clean up our front page, and we’ve changed how we show site activity on the front page. There have been a lot of other little changes here and there, and a lot of changes in the background that will enable us to release some much requested features in the near future.

Anyway… this is just a heads up! Matt will be giving another update when we go live, which should be in the next few days!

Cheers and thanks for your awesome support to date!
Angry Monkeys

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It’s been a while since our last version of fivesecondtest.com, and for that we’re sorry. We are working hard though, I promise! We hope to be providing a major update in the next couple of weeks. This will include a newly designed front page, manage page, results page and well…pretty much every page! In addition to that, we’ll be including a couple of new features. These are top secret at the moment, but we’ll give you another update early next week with some more details!

In the meantime, keep sending in your feedback! Whilst we may not always respond as timely as we should, we always read and take note of your ideas and suggestions! Fivesecondtest.com would be a lonely place without you guys, and for that we thank you!

We’ll be back with another update next week!

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