Hey everyone, quick update on what's happening next Monday, November 22, 2010. All times are Pacific Standard Time, which is where Los Angeles, California is.
At 9am, I'll be marking all beta registrations to receive their invite codes later in the day. Any beta registrations that come in after 9am will have to wait for our week 3 release on December 6th.
We'll be rolling out some changes to the live beta site and verifying that the code works as intended and doing lots of internal testing.
In the afternoon, when we feel the code base is tested enough, we'll send a newsletter to all users who registered for the beta, even after the 9am cutoff. This newsletter will explain more about what we've been working on, what's in the new release, that sort of thing.
Once that newsletter is sent, I'll work on getting invite codes sent out to everyone who registered before 9am that day, and those users can begin helping with what we'll be calling our "open beta." The Email you'll receive with your invite code will explain what we need from you as beta testers.
It's important to note up front that several things will seem "missing" from the site, such as the forums, leaving comments, rating the games, that sort of thing. Some user profile settings may be available, but as we've already explained, changes you make on beta may get overwritten if you change your AG2 profile later.
The full details of what's going in the beta release, and what major pieces of the site are still missing will be detailed in the newsletter.
Other than questions of "what's in the release" or "what's missing from the release", are there any questions about the process or what will be happening next Monday?
What do you mean by "auto-login" can you please explain?
Allow me to simplify, since many users probably don't understand the AGi. Basically what auto-login means is that on games that have high scores and leaderboards, instead of having to input your AG login information, it will automatically detect the information and log you in.
thanks cormyn, larry , and all the team! for all this wonderful hard work! and it is all free for us!!i think we own it to ya'll to beta test the living bugs out of AG3!! and give all we can give for AG!!! see ya'll there!
Did I mention after Monday, I get 6 days off, because of Fall break and Thanksgiving paired together? I can probably use that time to help new beta testers with what they need to look for and how to report if things show up. I mean, that's all explained in your invitation key, but it doesn't go into detail.
Tomorrow. Hurry up! I'll probably be in school though
I obviously got this wrong, but I think it starts at 6pm my time.
**One Equation Later**
Wayyyy off. 4am AEST is 9(You're like half an hour behind, right?). Ian did say that he would send out invite codes after he has sent out newsletter and etc so it might be a fair bit after that.
I did give you the time zone, but I actually got it wrong >_> AEDT. So, NSW-VIC timezones. It's almost midnight now. Also I should point out that's Tuesday for us and not Monday.
