A production vs a beta version

[dartar]

I find that many experimental features make it to the "official" Scholia instance incrementally and change often, somewhat breaking expectations about what information a user can find in each Scholia panel and in what order.

Shouldn't we have a separate public beta/staging environment where new features can be discussed and reviewed before being integrated into the main instance?

I personally feel many features are not "production ready" and Scholia is mature enough to distinguish a stable vs beta version, have formal feature announcements and releases etc.

[fnielsen]

We could put up a beta environment. I do not mind being experimental on the official site though. Of course if users gets frustrated about features (missing or new unexpected) then it is a problem. I wonder if users know where to report problems?

I am wondering whether we can point to some problems users have run into? Personally I feel a lot could benefit from moving away from embedded frames (relates e.g. to #301). Another issue is to add reasonator-like information. The response time is more and more going to be an issue. Which panels are relevant to show is also up for question. On each page we shouldn't have too many, - I think, due to the load on the WDQS. Some ways around it is by moving panels to subaspects or make the panels configurable.