Hi!
This is an alpha version. Although we made some basic testing, it hasn't passed our internal QA procedures and is full of bugs (and it is said in the first message and on our website). The reason we had made it available for public is to show how LC3 will look like when is released, let our customers and partners try it in their environments and collect some early feedback.
Does it work in IE8 right now? Apparently, it doesn't yet (more likely a patch will be uploaded to the website in a couple of working days). Can it be installed in all possible environments? From the bug reports I think it can't (however, we installed exactly the same package on our website and the installation took less than 10 minutes). Is it fast on all machines? I guess, it isn't. What does it mean? It means the only thing: we will continue our work and will improve the LC3 further until it is ready for a production website.
So, please no more speculations on the "another buggy version & lack of testing" topic, because
this alpha version is supposed to be full of bugs.
At the same time we would appreciate any help with testing and improving the alpha version: we really need information on how LC3 alpha 2 behaves in different environments and on bugs you find (please report bugs
here). Of course, we don't force you to do this. If you are ready to spend some time and try it for fun - it would be great! If it is not the case - that's fine, just ignore this announcement.
Thanks!