Yesterday, I received an email from plazes.com stating that they finally moved out of beta. I immediately upgraded my plazer application to the latest and greatest. Much to my disappointment however, it turns out that both the plazer app and the website are still somewhat buggy, to say the least. The website does not seem to manage keeping me logged into my account, so each time I do something, like invite somebody, I need to log in again. Setting ‘remember me’ helps, in that I do no longer need to manually log in, but I still need to do some stuff on the site twice.
The plazer app itself also acts weirdly, sometimes showing actions from my contacts, and on a next check some actions have mysteriously disappeared. Yesterday, when I arrived at my home, it failed to recognize my own plaze. I’m quite confident I was at the right address – my key unlocked the door, my powerbook recognized my WiFi, and the pictures on the wall were those of my kids. Ok, it may have been a database glitch – after a few hours I was finally found to be at my plaze. But I do not expect that from software that moves out of beta. I never had any trouble when plazes was still in its testing phase, I thought it worked fine. I hope the developers get round to squishing the remaining bugs, so we can all be happy at our plazes.