100 Alpha Invites Sent

I’ve sent out the invites to the 100 new alpha users.

Posted July 20th, 2005 @ 11:55 AM in General by Alex

12 Replies to “100 Alpha Invites Sent”

  1. Josh adds this Comment:

    Would it be mean of me to do a victory dance in celebration of me being one of the people to get one?

    July 20th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
  2. joshteeters.org adds this Trackback:

    Alpha Testing FeedLounge

    A few days ago, I got an email from FeedLounge. I’d signed up a month or so ago to be notified of any updates (as well as a chance to be an alpha tester).

    In the email I received, it was stated that the first 100 people to respond with a bit o…

    July 20th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
  3. cyberhomie adds this Comment:

    Garsh! I replied seven minutes after the original message was sent! I can’t believe I didn’t recieve an invite. :( Crazy. I think I’m going to have to set Mail.app to check every minute now so I’m not late on the next one. ;)

    July 20th, 2005 at 4:21 pm
  4. jae adds this Comment:

    damn - i responed 5 minutes after i got it and i guess that wasn’t quick enough either. *sigh* back to bloglines till the next round.

    July 20th, 2005 at 5:58 pm
  5. Josh Jarmin adds this Comment:

    As I hope you see clearly now, there are hundreds and even thousands of people who do not want to try out your service, but are falling off the edge of their seats waiting to get an invite. I do really wish you would open it up more, especially to people who are keeping up with things and posting comments and feedback on your blog. Can 300 or 400 be THAT much more of an extra load than the 100 you just allowed in? I am about to pee my pants im so excited about feedlounge. Please hurry back with either more invites or the more open beta.

    July 20th, 2005 at 9:33 pm
  6. Alex adds this Comment:

    Trust me, getting this thing out to the general populus is foremost on our agenda.

    July 20th, 2005 at 9:48 pm
  7. Nicolas Hoizey adds this Comment:

    Didn’t receive any… of course I checked my mail only 2 hours after the message was sent. There must have been thousands of replies before mine… :(

    July 21st, 2005 at 12:34 am
  8. New Links adds this Trackback:

    I’m On The Feedlounge Alpha - w00t!

    There have been another 100 people invited onto the Feedlounge alpha - and I’m one of them. Yay!
    I thought I’d written a previous post about

    July 21st, 2005 at 1:46 am
  9. Josh adds this Comment:

    @Josh Jarmin:

    I’ve been using it about a day now, and I love it. In regards to your question, “Can 300 or 400 be THAT much more of an extra load…” I think so, yes. Obviously, I don’t know how FeedLounge’s servers were responding before the new 100 were let in, but I can tell you how they’re responding now. Sometimes they’re quick. More often they’re a little on the slow side. And sometimes, they slow down to basically everything stops. I had to log out and log back in last night to get things working again.

    I had clicked on a feed entry. The status bar at the bottom said it was loading the feed. It sat there like that for a good 2 or 3 minutes, doing nothing. I tried clicking on something else - nothing. I had to just log out.

    I don’t think their tiny alpha servers are ready for 300 or 400 more people. Not just yet. :)

    July 21st, 2005 at 6:12 am
  10. Alex adds this Comment:

    That’s “tiny alpha server” - not plural (not even dual processor). ;)

    July 21st, 2005 at 8:38 am
  11. Josh adds this Comment:

    Okay, now I can see why server response is really bad sometimes. :)

    July 21st, 2005 at 9:33 am
  12. The Indiana Jones School of Management adds this Trackback:

    Welcome, and Introduction

    Alex and Scott have grown FeedLounge to the point where they have inducted a third wave of alpha users. From the first wave, I welcome you. [Especially Stephen.]
    For everyone who’s never used a Web-based aggregator before, I’ve got to t…

    July 21st, 2005 at 1:45 pm

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