98% of the core Q&A work is complete and now we’re mainly testing and correcting minor issuess…

The main AskTrip page will look like this:

While an answer page looks like this:

Lots to see here:

  • References are now looking lovely – in the beta this was the biggest bugbear of testers!
  • Clinical areas – to help users browse Q&As of interest
  • Clinical type – it should actually be ‘Question type’, these include causes, treatment, complication etc, a way of classifying Q&As to help browsing but also act as a timeline of a condition – one for a future project
  • Quality of evidence – how strong was the evidence in answering the question. Useful for users but also one for a future project
  • Show original question – we noticed, from the beta, that users didn’t always form perfect questions e.g. no initial capital letter, no question mark, odd spacing. Our system corrects that – for display – but the original question is available to be seen
  • Related questions – not the best examples, due to the lack of Q&As in this version of the site and ignore the numbers after each title, that’s for our testing. But this is showing users questions that are closely related to this particular question
  • Report an issue – if a particular answer concerns someone, they can easily report it to us to be checked by our medical team

Since the beta we’ve added a whole bunch of new features, many behind the scenes, so we’re delighted that the answers still come back in less than 30 seconds.

Release date – definitely by the end of the month, maybe as early as the end of next week!