Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Invitation/Registration

Most of the recent programming sessions were spent ironing out the invitation and registration system used by the application both from the main site and the FB portal.

FB has a very particular system of application invitation which attempts to prevent abuse. As an avid Facebook user, I can state from first-hand experience that the invitation system needs work as I have been deluged with invitation requests not only for application but for friends and events.

I have a invitation system in general which will limit who can join the game. This will prevent people from adding the application until its ready. For now, I will setup custom invitation codes by hand for a select group of alpha testers.

A big consideration in releasing any system is the readiness of that system and whether any users will be turned off from trying the beta once they have been burned by an alpha system.

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