Yeah, had a similar concern. I was wondering if a non-indexed subdir would
do the trick. Naturally any code deployed for potentially so many users
would need scrutiny for simple stuff like XSS, and I imagine analytics
scripts would have to factor in the sub site.

On Monday, January 25, 2016, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Good Q. I guess my question would be about the practical costs in
> setup, deployment and patch time for a prod service.
>
> On 25 January 2016 at 11:24, Adam Baso <[email protected] <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > ...that is, if it is prioritized for a link from the portal homepage,
> > anyway.
> >
> >
> > On Monday, January 25, 2016, Adam Baso <[email protected]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >> For domain name and hosting: should it be a production domain name on a
> >> production host?
> >>
> >> On Friday, January 22, 2016, Julien Girault <[email protected]
> <javascript:;>>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The Discovery Portal team has been thinking about a Portal Labs page.
> >>>
> >>> The idea is that we can implement some revolutionary ideas for our
> portal
> >>> page, things that are completely different than what the current
> portal page
> >>> looks like, and deploy it on this site for real users to use. But
> without
> >>> imposing a disruptive user experience to our users. We can put a link
> to
> >>> this page on the production portal page (in the bottom?), and users
> can have
> >>> an option to bookmark the page, and maybe make one of the experiments
> their
> >>> default.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> We would have two trains:
> >>>
> >>> - Slow train: running regular A/B tests (like the one we just ran) on
> the
> >>> official portal page and deploying small improvements as we learn.
> >>>
> >>> - Faster train: "Revolutionary" prototypes in Labs where we also
> collect
> >>> traffic and clickthrough rate to measure user satisfaction. We can also
> >>> implement a "Send a Feedback" feature (or have a link on the prototype
> page
> >>> that points to a Phab ticket where community can add
> comments/feedback).
> >>>
> >>> To give you an example of what we mean by revolutionary ideas, I
> uploaded
> >>> some of my research time work:
> >>> https://people.wikimedia.org/~jgirault/
> >>>
> >>> Pay closer attention to:
> >>> Trending Showing top 9 articles (grid)
> >>> Trending Showing top 10 articles (full screen)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This would allow us to think outside the box and test different
> >>> layouts/features, with real users who chose to.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This is kind of a crazy idea, and we want to know what you all think
> >>> about it. Also we would need some naming ideas for it. Portal labs, or
> beta
> >>> portal, or something else.
> >>>
> >>> Please let us know what you think about this, how you think we can go
> >>> towards making this happen and what we should name it.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>> Julien
> >
> >
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