[TheMayhem]

This is the official post for Alpha 1 Release

First off I'd like to say that the Point Market has been a live for 1 year. Happy birthday Market



Anyways, as many of the people using the Market know, I am student teaching, which I've been doing since the 2nd of January and my free time is incredibly limited until May where I can return to full blown normal programming production. I've tried to keep up with complaints, issues, bugs, and suggestions. After some thought I decided this weekend would be best to release 3.1.0 as an Alpha release.

There are a few things that users need to know. I discovered this weekend when I was getting ready to release the Alpha that I was missing a more updated version of 3.1.0 that somehow got deleted on my thumb drive. It was only about a week of coding but there were a few bug fixes that I see missing as well as some Market Items that are incomplete. Fortunately, I had a backup and only lost about a week's worth. Therefore, the following Market items are incomplete that I know of (check back as this might get updated).

Please disable the Forum Market Items: Coupon Access, Create Smiley Category, Upload Smiley, Upload Avatar. None of those will work.

I am going to promise users that I am going to release Alpha 2, next Sunday, which will be a 100% bug release. My goal is going to be to fix the bugs in 3.0.1 that were still there or have shown up since I last worked on the Market as well as any really ugly things found in the Alpha release. This is what I promise to my market users and it's the best I can do. I'm hoping to do small intermediate releases once a week until this becomes completely stable. Until then the choice to upgrade is to the users.