Belatedly: I just wanted to say how much I value the feedback I’ve had over the years on the XoR forum thread.
It would be a much weaker game without the steady flow of feedback there, and I intend to keep writing future games in the series with ongoing testing on an open forum thread.
I can understand that it won’t be for all authors; but I’d much rather have feedback at a stage when I can still change the game to accommodate it than only offer it up for testing once it’s pragmatically too late to deal with significant changes.