Pottermore v7

[ccollinsmith]

Originally Posted by MagicDraconis27

This could be very true, however I'm dubious about it because some families signed up with either the same email address or from the same computer. I signed my son up, for example, and it required my email address because he's under 13. I don't know how Pottermore could distinguish the two apart from digging through the ages of every single person that registered under the same email address (which would be a crazy amount of work).

I'm sure that filtering mechanisms could handle the age/address issue with ease. I doubt they've actually got people eyeballing the data for each individual registration.

[CharmGlow132]

Originally Posted by Misswinkyluna

It said on the verification email it's going to be on a first come first serve basis, I had thought the emails would come today but they could be wait for a working day?

Spots as beta testers were on first come first serve basis, whoever found the quill and registered the quickest got the spot. It wasn't talking about time of access, just who got to sign up. At least, that's how I read it.. Basically, we're completely in the dark about emails. None of us can really do anything but speculate... It's kind of clever of them, actually, it keeps up interest.

[Renesans]

Originally Posted by EchoWiggins

That doesn't seem that hard. I am sure they store everything in a modern database.

Run a script that grabs every email and make sure it only has one account. Then for those that are attached to multiple accounts make sure only one has an age over 13. For every email that falls into those categories set them in one bin then investigate the rest.

You can't register multiple accounts with the same email unless you use it as "parent's email address". If you had tried doing that, the site would have thrown an error on you.

[MagicDraconis27]

Originally Posted by ccollinsmith

I'm sure that filtering mechanisms could handle the age/address issue with ease. I doubt they've actually got people eyeballing the data for each individual registration.

Didn't even think about that. I guess that would make sense instead of doing it the archaic way I'd have done it. We can all hope that they don't think like I do.

[CharmGlow132]

So, going back to the whole "background on the welcome page" topic, there are 6 owls in the picture right now. Will the seventh bring our welcome email? I think so.. They've been using the 'Seven' theme a lot lately. Do we have any idea how long each of the other 4 previous backgrounds were up? That could give us some kind of time frame for this one..

[Jackie_x0]

Originally Posted by CharmGlow132

So, going back to the whole "background on the welcome page" topic, there are 6 owls in the picture right now. Will the seventh bring our welcome email? I think so.. They've been using the 'Seven' theme a lot lately. Do we have any idea how long each of the other 4 previous backgrounds were up? That could give us some kind of time frame for this one..

I hope you're right. It does make sense and I hope we get our welcome owls soon!!!

[Horcruxesque]

Originally Posted by CharmGlow132

So, going back to the whole "background on the welcome page" topic, there are 6 owls in the picture right now. Will the seventh bring our welcome email? I think so.. They've been using the 'Seven' theme a lot lately. Do we have any idea how long each of the other 4 previous backgrounds were up? That could give us some kind of time frame for this one..

Where are these owls? I only see the one off to the right of 'What is Pottermore?'

[DragonHawthorn]

Hi all, first time poster - but long time guest!!

Im one of the lucky few to have registered on day 2, cant wait for the beta to start! Just wanted to add my thoughts about the anticipated release of welcome emails. I work in the IT industry, so have a little insight into how releases of info to large numbers normally happens. First off, theres mention of staff not working on weekends, so this might delay things. To be honest this would make no difference - it will be a totally automated procedure. They could come out in order of who registered first, but its actually more likely it will be in alphabetical order. The servers will have a specific load that they can handle per day, and they also have to consider the email providers load. For example they cant send out too many emails all at once who are hosted by hotmail, or gmail etc - they would slow down and possibly bring down that email server. So its entierly possible they will release a set amount per day across a varied list of email providers. This would mean the release if effectively random - and to be honest i think thats the most likely way itll happen. As to when - i imagine a date and time has been set, and when that is reached the servers will start to release those emails, there will be minimal interaction from staff to handle this. So those are my thoughts, the emails will come - but randomly with a relatively small number each day (by relatively small i mean in the thousands)

Hope everyone is havin fun!

[Horcruxesque]

Originally Posted by DragonHawthorn

Hi all, first time poster - but long time guest!!

Im one of the lucky few to have registered on day 2, cant wait for the beta to start! Just wanted to add my thoughts about the anticipated release of welcome emails. I work in the IT industry, so have a little insight into how releases of info to large numbers normally happens. First off, theres mention of staff not working on weekends, so this might delay things. To be honest this would make no difference - it will be a totally automated procedure. They could come out in order of who registered first, but its actually more likely it will be in alphabetical order. The servers will have a specific load that they can handle per day, and they also have to consider the email providers load. For example they cant send out too many emails all at once who are hosted by hotmail, or gmail etc - they would slow down and possibly bring down that email server. So its entierly possible they will release a set amount per day across a varied list of email providers. This would mean the release if effectively random - and to be honest i think thats the most likely way itll happen. As to when - i imagine a date and time has been set, and when that is reached the servers will start to release those emails, there will be minimal interaction from staff to handle this. So those are my thoughts, the emails will come - but randomly with a relatively small number each day (by relatively small i mean in the thousands)

Hope everyone is havin fun!

Ah, this does make a lot of sense!

When you say alphabetical order, do you mean our Usernames?

[ThePatronusFox]

Originally Posted by DragonHawthorn

Hi all, first time poster - but long time guest!!

Im one of the lucky few to have registered on day 2, cant wait for the beta to start! Just wanted to add my thoughts about the anticipated release of welcome emails. I work in the IT industry, so have a little insight into how releases of info to large numbers normally happens. First off, theres mention of staff not working on weekends, so this might delay things. To be honest this would make no difference - it will be a totally automated procedure. They could come out in order of who registered first, but its actually more likely it will be in alphabetical order. The servers will have a specific load that they can handle per day, and they also have to consider the email providers load. For example they cant send out too many emails all at once who are hosted by hotmail, or gmail etc - they would slow down and possibly bring down that email server. So its entierly possible they will release a set amount per day across a varied list of email providers. This would mean the release if effectively random - and to be honest i think thats the most likely way itll happen. As to when - i imagine a date and time has been set, and when that is reached the servers will start to release those emails, there will be minimal interaction from staff to handle this. So those are my thoughts, the emails will come - but randomly with a relatively small number each day (by relatively small i mean in the thousands)

Hope everyone is havin fun!

Thanks! That is some GREAT information! It will definitely help us determine how they'll be sending out the welcome emails and how many a day will be sent out.

Hopefully that set date starts tomorrow. That would be awesome.

[ccollinsmith]

Originally Posted by CharmGlow132

So, going back to the whole "background on the welcome page" topic, there are 6 owls in the picture right now. Will the seventh bring our welcome email? I think so.. They've been using the 'Seven' theme a lot lately. Do we have any idea how long each of the other 4 previous backgrounds were up? That could give us some kind of time frame for this one..

I've had the Stage 5 background since last Sunday. So I'm not sure how long other backgrounds have been up.

[DragonHawthorn]

Originally Posted by Horcruxesque

Ah, this does make a lot of sense!

When you say alphabetical order, do you mean our Usernames?

It could be either, i think they will order the results firstly by email provider, then sort those by either username or by actual name - it will make little difference to their system. Im leaning towards a ordered list by email provider then randomly selected within that. I think that would be the only truely fair way to do it :-)

[Horcruxesque]

Originally Posted by DragonHawthorn

It could be either, i think they will order the results firstly by email provider, then sort those by either username or by actual name - it will make little difference to their system. Im leaning towards a ordered list by email provider then randomly selected within that. I think that would be the only truely fair way to do it :-)

Oh, haha, thank you. I'm hoping for username over real name, because my username starts with an E. :P

[Slartibartfast]

Alphabetical order in username or email address? I do think they MIGHT just start in numerical order by the day of registration. That too makes sense. I was one of the lucky few who got in on Day 1. So naturally, im expecting my welcoming email any time now.

[DragonHawthorn]

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

Alphabetical order in username or email address? I do think they MIGHT just start in numerical order by the day of registration. That too makes sense. I was one of the lucky few who got in on Day 1. So naturally, im expecting my welcoming email any time now.

I think by releasing emails in order of who accessed first is tempting - but i think it would be unfair on those who registered later in the week. The best way to keep it fair to everyone is totally random. But then again - they could well do that, i guess we will soon find out lol

[Slartibartfast]

Originally Posted by DragonHawthorn

I think by releasing emails in order of who accessed first is tempting - but i think it would be unfair on those who registered later in the week. The best way to keep it fair to everyone is totally random. But then again - they could well do that, i guess we will soon find out lol

We shall see. If i and some of the others who registered that first night get their emails very soon, we will know.

[DragonHawthorn]

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

We shall see. If i and some of the others who registered that first night get their emails very soon, we will know.

indeed, thats the good thing - as soon as emails start to come out itll be very easy to tell how theyve ordered it :-)

[ActingDude17]

Originally Posted by DragonHawthorn

I think by releasing emails in order of who accessed first is tempting - but i think it would be unfair on those who registered later in the week. The best way to keep it fair to everyone is totally random. But then again - they could well do that, i guess we will soon find out lol

How would that be unfair? I think order of registration is only fair. First come, first served - if you wanted to be first you should have registered on day one. I wanted early access, so that's what I did.

[MissAnthropy]

Originally Posted by Renesans

You can't register multiple accounts with the same email unless you use it as "parent's email address". If you had tried doing that, the site would have thrown an error on you.

I have a question about this because I registered on the first day really quickly and got my validation e-mail instanly and validated.

That same night a friend of mine who thought I was asleep tells me she signed me up (I didn't ask her to she just did it to be nice)... I got another validation e-mail like 5 hours later but just let it expire and never clicked it.

I'm banking on my original account being safe as it was validated and I never clicked the other link. Will my account have an error? I hope not It was beyond my control...

[Renesans]

I don't think Pottermore's process to send out welcome emails is completely automated. I believe they have to make sure first that everything is right, then they have to press a button to start the automated process. Therefore, the sending out of emails must start when they have working hours. The process shouldn't be random either, as it's almost certain that the first-come-first-served basis means that the first ones to validate will get access first. That's why the validation emails told us to be quick to validate. Also, the sending of the welcome emails is most likely done separately for each language, as the Pottermore website states.