Erfoid Beta Program

Erfoid is currently in beta. This document describes what this means and what we expect from beta testers.

Current status

The main feature is implemented and available: searching by image. That's typically the starting point of a beta. It's not a full release because it's not yet considered perfect:

• secondary goals/features may not be all implemented yet
• there may remain some bugs, even if we've fixed all those found during our internal testing
• the service has not yet been validated with a huge number of users (aka scaling in technical jargon)
• indexing images/galleries (aka ingesting data) is still in progress

What we expect from you

We want you to use the service as much as possible, and report any problem you might encounter. This includes

• searching using all three current methods: file selection, file drag&drop, chrome extension
• of course, please report any crash from the website
• identification error: if an image was falsely identified as belonging to an obviously different gallery, please report it
• data: it's currently less important, but you may report if an image was not identified, but you know at least some information about the gallery (producer, nickname(s), gallery name, date, ..)

Please don't

We have of course no way to prevent from you doing this, but please don't mention this service on any publicly available media (forum, mailing list, social networks, ...). It's ok if you tell people close to you (friends, familly, forum members you know), but only using private messages.

When the first beta stage is over, we will open the beta to everyone, and ask you exactly the opposite, bui until then, we'd like to keep a low profile.

How to report ?

A (currently very basic) report form is available on any search result. You may also contact our community manager that contacted you for the beta program. We will soon add better ways of reaching us.

What's next ?

Despite testing and fixing the software and the infrastructure, we are already implementing new features. Most of those will require people to log in, so this is what we are working on first.

This will not be mandatory to use erfoid.

We want account creation to be as transparent and anonymous as possible, which requires some special care from our development team.