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Registration for Google I/O 2013 will open on March 13, 2013 at 7:00 AM PDT
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- rafamvc 14y agoThere is a ajax call every 30 seconds, for now it returns just {status: "waiting"} . Losing my hopes here...
- lgleason 14y agoagreed.
- cshenoy 14y agoat 10:11a EST "Sorry! There are no available tickets at this time"
- mbayer 14y agoWhen I try it actually waits the full six minutes then sends me back to the main registration page without any message.
- altoz 14y agoawesome Internal Server Error...
- bitcartel 14y agoJust seconds after 7am... "Things are really busy right now, and we're assigning tickets as they become available. We'll keep trying to get you a ticket for up to 6 minutes. After that, if we don't have a ticket for you, we'll send you back to the main page and you can try again. Don't do any of the following. They'll decrease your chances of getting a ticket. Refresh this page Try to register in a new tab Try to register in another browser Hammer the JavaScript endpoints using the JS Console"*
- lgleason 14y agoSame here.....
- schuon 14y agoAnyone got a ticket already? Does open multiple (private) browser sessions help?
- objclxt 14y agoIf Google are being clever about it (and you'd assume they are) then they would have tied ticket search into your Google Plus account, so multiple browser sessions would be of little help, private or not.
- robflynn 14y agoI would think you would need multiple Google+ accounts. Their language on the site says that connecting multiple times from the same account will reset your position in the queue.
- schuon 14y agoyeah, that would have been the plan. But anyone has a ticket so far? Maybe their backend totally broke down.
- robflynn 14y agoFrom what I understand with talking to a few folks, they're released in batches of 100 or so every few minutes. So, in theory, it's possible to "run out of tickets" only to have another batch of them be released in the system a few minutes later. I'm sitting in the queue and just got kicked back after 6 minutes and started the process again.
- pwenzel 14y agoI fear that would only add to the queue and make it worse.
- melvinmt 14y ago"Please don't open multiple tabs or use multiple browsers. Each time you open a new connection, your ticket search will restart."
- jskopek 14y agoLast year's Google IO conference sold out in minutes, and it looks like this year's is even more hectic. I wonder how long it'll be until they decide to switch to an alternative approach. What about ticket raffles or an online-only event?
- objclxt 14y agoThey do stream all the sessions online, along with the I/O extended sessions around the world. I think Google do a good job of making the actual material available...although I will accept that is no substitute for the networking/experience you get from being there. That's one reason why the Extended events are quite good, as you're generally able to meet a wide range of people. To be honest, I think the best solution would just be to lottery it, but then again I suspect if they were to lottery it there'd be a lot more people entering than attempting to get tickets in such a short space of time.
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- king_jester 14y agoIt seems like the best option would be to stop giving out freebies with high dollar value. Since the I/O sessions are streamed live and are archived on youtube, there's no real reason to attend outside of networking and getting the freebies for most folks.
- bthomas 14y agoSomething won't keep me signed in. I'm all signed in, go to "waiting for an available ticket", and there's a "Sign In" link at the top
- CCs 14y agoYou can ignore the "Sign in" link on the ticketsearch page. When the 6 min passed and throws you back to the first page, it will correctly show that you're signed in.
- jonursenbach 14y agoI've got the same issue. I was signed in at 7am, waited for a ticket for a minute and then it kicked me back to the main page to sign into G+ again. Still waiting for a ticket.
- lgleason 14y agosame here....I'm assuming that it is still working correctly but may be wrong.
- kristjan 14y agoOpening google.com/+ shows the cookie is still intact. There's also a ping every 30 seconds to https://developers.google.com/events/register/waitlist/status/googleio2013_general/ https://developers.google.com/events/register/waitlist/statu... that returns {"status":"waiting"}. Trying that URL from a remote console returns {"status":"reregister"}, so the Sign In header appears spurious.
- jjcm 14y agoSame.
- justinlilly 14y agoI would imagine that this paged is cached in the logged-out view.
- rafamvc 14y agoanyone got a ticket yet?
- lemcoe9 14y agoNothing as of 10:13:26 EST
- lemcoe9 14y agoJust timed out for the fifth time at 10:14:49 EST
- lgleason 14y agonot yet....
- robflynn 14y agoA friend of mine just got his ticket a moment ago. Still working on mine.
- base698 14y agoJust reset back to a try again page for me. Back on the ticket search.
- hansyschmitt 14y agono luck yet... if ever
- china 14y agoI just got sent back to the registration screen after 6 minutes... no luck.
- daveambrose 14y agoSeeing this after 3x now: http://twitpic.com/cb0gvu http://twitpic.com/cb0gvu
- zrgiu_ 14y agoat 7:01 after the "Waiting for an available ticket" I got the message "We couldn't find you a ticket, but there still might be tickets left!".. I'm curious if anyone got through yet.
- kevincrane 14y agoClicked Register right at 7am, spun for 6 minutes, booted back to the home screen. Jesus, I've been to massive music-festivals that were easier to get into than this conferences. Plus those you can at least scalp tickets later if you need to.
- Andrex 14y agoChronicling as it happens... 1. First time, got into the "Waiting for available ticket..." screen, got kicked after about a minute. 2. Second time, got into the "Waiting for available ticket..." screen, got kicked after six minutes (maximum time you can spend on that screen.) Was redirected to a "No More Tickets Available" page, but went back to the main page and saw it said "There might be tickets still available!" 3. Third time, got into the "Waiting for available ticket..." screen, kicked after six minutes again, but was redirected back to the main page and told "There might be tickets still available!" 4. Fourth time, see third time. 5. Fifth time, see fourth time. 6. Sixth time, see fifth time. 7. Seventh time, see sixth time. 8. Eighth time, see seventh time, except when I got kicked I was also told I needed to sign into Google+ again. 9. Ninth time, got to the Google Wallet screen after a minute, paid, and registered! I'm going to Google I/O 2013!!
- schuon 14y agoThey pull each minute a JSON status. Something like {"status": "waiting"} Wonder to what it will change. If ever
- jonursenbach 14y agoGot a ticket reserved, but then Google Wallet was failing to load my credit card data. After 4:30 of waiting, it finally kicked in and I kicked off a purchase, only to have the timer run out before it finished. So now I've got a pending $900 charge on my Google Wallet account. Guess I get to see if that actually goes through and I get a ticket. Edit: Google has cancelled the $900 charge and I now do not have a ticket. Cool. /s
- dsyang 14y agoSame thing happened to me. No confirmation e-mail yet...
- lgleason 14y agoI'm stuck in the wallet land as well.
- jonursenbach 14y agoClosing out and re-opening that modal a few times eventually got it to work.
- frankchn 14y agoIn fact I have two pending $900 charges on my Google Wallet account.
- mrfairladyz 14y agoAs do I... And no verification of registration yet. This is an absolute mess.
- IgorPartola 14y agoI wonder if they are doing some kind of an artificial delay in handing out tickets instead of just making them available at the start. Really, a better way to handle this is the way that the World Cup does it: you enter a lottery and if you win you can buy a ticket. That is a bit more fair, and probably easier on their servers.
- cdjk 14y agoI got a ticket but then got timed out at the payment step. Trying again...
- songgao 14y agoThis is gonna be an annual lottery.
- stevep98 14y agoGot in 10 minutes ago, press the pay button, then waited for 5 minutes as the transaction timed out. Sigh. Start again. Why oh Why do they have to do this at 7AN Pacific? What engineer is getting up at this unearthly hour?
- objclxt 14y ago> Why do they have to do this at 7AN Pacific? What engineer is getting up at this unearthly hour? Surprisingly, some engineers do live outside of California. Last year Apple put WWDC tickets on sale at 5:30AM PDT without notice...the rumour mill suggested this was deliberately done by Apple to ensure more attendees from outside the west coast. Whatever time you put tickets on sale, somebody is going to complain. There are certainly two sides to the coin here...
- stevep98 14y agoYeh the Apple WWDC was worse. If I remember rightly, it wasnt really announced ahead of time when the tickets would be going on sale either. I just woke up one day and 'poof - sold out'. I think you're right, it must be deliberate! (sigh - another 500 Server Error - haven't had one of those in ten minutes - things are improving!)
- DrewRWx 14y agoI now have a pending charge for an academic ticket, so they are still rolling out.
- floetic 14y agoDo you think they are biased towards Android/Chrome user agent strings for the lottery?
- objclxt 14y ago...it's not a lottery, it's a queueing system. And no, I don't think they're biased.
- indescription 14y agoA queueing system that makes you go back to the start of the line, over and over.
- rafamvc 14y agoGot a ticket! I canceled the payment a couple times, if it took more than a minute I canceled. Got stuck in the processing payment, it failed, and tried one more time and it worked. After that it took me to a signup form, with a long questionaire. I guess if you didn't see that, you don't have a ticket.
- tapsboy 14y agoI think it will be interesting to look at the numbers and the queuing challenges faced by Google during Nexus4/10 launch and io2013, if they ever release it
- songgao 14y agoI got kicked out in my fifth round. I had to sign in again to get back to registration. I guess their Google I/O session server is so congested that my token got expired...
- lox 14y agoFinally got a ticket, so there must be some left (7:37PST)
- metajack 14y agoI got in once after 4 6 minute waits. I was stuck on the wallet loading screen as I watched the timer go to zero. I got in again and hit buy, only to be told there was some problem talking to the merchant account. Kicked back to the "we found you a ticket" screen. Got stuck for a minute or so on the wallet load again, then kicked back. Got back to the buy screen, entered a new card just in case, and got the same merchant error. Tried again, and my ticket timed out after hitting buy but before anything happened. http://imgur.com/opR63hx http://imgur.com/opR63hx UPDATE: And registration closed without me getting another chance. :(
- robflynn 14y agoWe've had 5 wallet timeouts thus far. Frustrating.
- frankchn 14y agoAny pending charges on wallet.google.com?
- metajack 14y agoTwo cancelled $900 charges.
- mik3y 14y agoFYI, it appears that if the page times out but successfully posts a "pending" Wallet transaction, you are not registered. On this suspicion I tried again, and eventually paid again. This transaction succeeded, and the page took me to a registration form. After filling out the form, only then did I get a confirmation number and e-mail. http://i.imgur.com/jvcbpxP.png http://i.imgur.com/jvcbpxP.png
- mikeevans 14y agoJust got a ticket after 3 timeouts, and Google Wallet taking almost the full 6 minutes to process.
- eclipxe 14y agoI finally got in (7:48 pst), had to close and re-open the wallet modal about 15 times before it completed. All confirmed. Keep trying!
- Legend 14y agoI can confirm that accessing that the following boots you back to the home screen: -Attempt through multiple tabs -Attempt through multiple browsers -Attempt through multiple machines Looks like Google is keeping its promise :)
- Legend 14y agoI got one though!!! See you guys in May! http://i.imgur.com/DYPcEe9.png http://i.imgur.com/DYPcEe9.png
- floetic 14y agoSOLD OUT
- mrfairladyz 14y ago"Google I/O is sold out."
- robflynn 14y agoI'm getting registration closed messages now. 6 instances of getting a ticket slot and having wallet time out. Disappointed.
- CCs 14y ago7:50pm PST - it says "Internal Error" then "Registration closed"
- BHSPitMonkey 14y agoBetter than 8 instances of not finding any tickets, despite starting at 07:00 sharp...
- plackemacher 14y agoSame here. Patiently waited as well..
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- indescription 14y agoSame, except it was 4AM sharp here.
- IgorPartola 14y agoRegistration is now closed.
- chadscira 14y agowell that was a waste of an hour...
- stevep98 14y agoAnnddd... registrations is closed. SOLD OUT.
- altoz 14y agoregistration is closed, apparently
- Legend 14y ago"Google I/O is sold out" and I finally got one!!!!! http://i.imgur.com/DYPcEe9.png http://i.imgur.com/DYPcEe9.png
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- hoju 14y agoGot one! I was delayed and didn't login until 7:30. Waited a few minutes for a ticket to be allocated and then needed to open and close payment window a few times before redirected to the survey. Do you think preference is given based on location? Am currently in Vietnam.