It’s been nearly two and half years since we launched The Sacramento Press, and today we released a few changes (more than just the temporary purple color), one of which is removing the beta stamp from our navigation. What is a beta stamp, you ask? Well, since you can no longer see it on our site, I grabbed this screenshot of what it used to look like. Beta generally indicates that a company is still working out the kinks in their core product. But we finally are happy to say we feel pretty happy with what we have, so no more beta! Does this mean we stop working on new features? Absolutely not. We will in fact bring new and increasingly cool features to The Sacramento Press over the co

Our long term goal is to cover all of the Sacramento Metropolitan Area, however that will take time. Some users have already noticed that we have given a huge bit of attention to the Southside Park neighborhood of downtown. This is because the Southside Park neighborhood is in our "beta" area. For a more detailed description of what beta means and the what area of town we are starting out in please visit the article What is "beta"? in our Frequently Asked Questions storyline. As we expand and grow we will quickly move beyond just trying to cover this neighborhood in downtown and begin covering a larger and larger area. When we do we will also change our navigation to reflect our growth a

"Beta" is a little bit of shop talk I guess. In our case it refers to the release state of our web software application. We built our online newspaper platform from scratch. Beta just means that our initial release has not been tested enough to be considered 100% robust and sturdy. We will be "beta testing" our application by launching it in a specific neighborhood. We call that neighborhood our "beta" area because, like the application, we are just testing our processes in preparation for a full launch. Our "beta" neighborhood is the quadrant of downtown between the Sacramento river, Capitol City Freeway, 16th Street, and N street. This area includes the neighborhood of Southside Park,