Sorry this is a bit long... You’ll recall that in mid-February we surveyed PJ users asking how close Remix was to final release. We had a lot of responses, and some of you went to a lot of trouble over your replies – thank you.

So, how did we go? And what progress have we made since then? We asked, “How likely is it that you would recommend Photojunction to friends or colleagues?”

40% of regular users gave us a score of 9/10 or 10/10. For pre-release beta software we felt that was pretty good. Click here to read some of the compliments we got.

But still, a quarter of people were negative to a greater or lesser extent - not good enough to go final. The main concern was crashes. There were also clear problems with templates. A few people were concerned about “portability issues” (eg how to shift work from one computer/staff member to another, or to a design service). And as expected there were other specific bugs, lots of feature requests, instances where people were confused by Remix's behaviour, or the differences between Remix and Retro. And of course a few people who simply think Remix should be a different program. That’s cool too (fortunately there are different programs!)

The Dev Team listened hard. One of their first responses was to develop a piece of code that kept a log of what happened if a crash occurred (very helpful when one of the main challenges is replicating problems). And over five or so weeks they’ve released three more updates, including over a hundred more bug fixes, and we have more to clear before we go final.

But we feel we’re very close now. Crashes seem very rare, albeit just as frustrating when they do happen. So we have invited people who identified themselves as “regular users” last time to repeat the survey.

If you HAVEN'T been contacted but would like to participate, please click this link. We'd love to get this show on the road. Tell us what you think!

Cheers, Ian