Legendary Digital Networks Blog

Legendary Digital Networks is home to Nerdist, Geek & Sundry, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, and the newly announced membership service, Alpha

Mar 16, 2017

Update for Alpha iOS Beta Testers

Hi beta testers,

Thanks for the great feedback we’ve received since the beginning of the Alpha iOS beta. One of our members asked that we circulate notes for the builds release as we get closer to launch (which should be soon!).

Ed Lopez

Mar 1, 2017

Alpha Live Issues Update

Hi,

We cannot thank you enough for helping us over the past month to diagnose and solve the live streaming issues we had in February. We’re happy to report that Alpha has been stable over the last three weeks and believe that we have fixed most of the…

Ed Lopez

Feb 9, 2017

Alpha Live Streaming Issue Update

Hi everyone,

We’ve been having technical issues over the last couple of weeks with the Alpha site. We’ve been working hard to resolve these issues, so we want to give an update on where everything stands.

Fixed on Alpha: Issues with Video Playback on iOS Devices

We’ve received some reports regarding video playback issues for Alpha VOD content on iOS devices. It took us some time to pinpoint the problem, but I’m happy to announce that it has been fixed.

Ed Lopez

Jan 12, 2017

Chat Mentions Released in Alpha

Hi!

Today’s product release contained mostly security and CMS enhancements, but we squeezed in a pretty cool improvement. Username mentions in chat are now available 0n Alpha!

Ed Lopez

Dec 12, 2016

Alpha Features Update

Hi everyone!

Thank you to everyone who has signed up to Alpha over the last few weeks. It’s…

Updated Alpha Promotion for Twitch Users

About a month ago, we announced that if you had a current Twitch subscription to Nerdist or Geek & Sundry with an original subscribe date on or before 9/28/2016 that you’ll be gifted a 6-month free membership to Alpha.

Alpha Update

Hello!

My name is Ed Lopez and I’m head of Digital Strategy and Operations for Legendary Digital Networks. My main job is to support and grow Geek & Sundry, Nerdist, Smart Girls and Alpha.