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This looks nice, but why do so many online services have a delay between signing up for a beta and actually getting access? It is incredibly annoying. The situ
by gms 16y ago
This looks nice, but why do so many online services have a delay between signing up for a beta and actually getting access? It is incredibly annoying.
The situation would be improved if you could tell me when to expect the invite instead of a vague 'soon'.
- mlinsey 16y agoThanks for your interest! And our apologies for the delay in sending out invites. For us, it's actually really important to let people in slowly. A new user signup is the most expensive event for our infrastructure by a huge margin, since we do lots of queries to Twitter and lots of additional number-crunching behind the scenes. A big, sudden burst of signups, especially if it included several big Twitter celebrities, would result in a bad experience for everyone. We've been getting a very healthy number of signups so far, but we will try to invite everyone in within the next couple weeks.
- gms 16y agoThanks for the reply. I understand the need to index and pre-process the data, but 'within the next couple weeks' is good to know, vs a vague 'soon'. I look forward to it.