Beta.couchsurfing.com

From the CouchSurfing Wiki, an informal workspace which anyone can edit.

Beta-testers will be using beta.couchsurfing.com as a testing ground for new developments, where new features can be added and problems can be fixed before being available on www.couchsurfing.com.

Alpha is a kind of developer playground without any real data. All users there will be fake, without any real names or emails or pictures or anything. Developers will be allowed more or less full access so they can learn how the site's inner workings work and try things out.

We can also use it to show potential features. We will use 'beta' to show potential features by trusted devs that we aren't ready to put on the live site, and 'alpha' to show potential features by untrusted devs using fake data. 'alpha' is likely to be broken half the time. 'beta' is likely to be broken occasionally (like the current site has been). the live site will hopefully very rarely be broken once alpha and beta are working.

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