My question: Is this, what meant Q by, the end will not be for everyone?
No. Have some perspective.
This is a public beta, and they have to scale, not just server infrastructure, but staff as well, with users. It would be impossible to be ready to support such a large user base overnight, especially when they didn't really know what the actual number would be. They need preliminary data to know how much they need to scale per user, and then they need to get those resources, which in the case of support staff, takes time due to hiring processes.
It comes off as quite insulting to millions of devoted, invested, etc pedes.
Understood. From my own experience, if the technical infrastructure is setup properly with cloud computing, scaling should be automatic, so it's not likely a hardware issue. However, when they first launched, they didn't know how many users they were going to get. They can estimate, but if they do, they are always going to use a conservative number so they don't waste a bunch of time and resources due to over-projection. This is important for things like support staffing. You're going to need technical support for users (at an unknown rate), moderators to address reports, etc., etc. This is a major bottleneck, because unlike hardware which even if you're not using a cloud deployment, you can just go buy more, people have to be interviewed and hired, which takes time.
why create a waitlist
In my opinion, this was very smart, because it gives them the numbers they need to support before it happens. Much like crowd-sourced products -- it's a commitment to be a user.
Additionally, it's a way to add exclusivity, which increases the demand. Your friends may be feeling like it's not worth the wait, but generally speaking, that is never the market reaction to having to wait for something (especially if it's free, and doesn't cost them a dime or a second of their time to be on that waitlist). Look at how Nintendo marketed the Wii: they never produced a surplus, so there was always high demand even two years after its release. It prolonged the interest in the system, and it still felt like the new Nintendo system even years after its release (which is good, because Nintendo is very slow and lagging in the console market).
It also allows people to reserve registration, so you don't have to keep going back to the app and rushing to enter your information every time they open up registration for an hour or two for the next round of beta testing.
feel like yet another surveillance number.
I can't really sympathize with that feeling. It's just your place in line (though, I'm not sure how accurate that number really is).
All of this said, it's still social media -- and your quality of life will always be higher without it.
I personally feel that this is less of a logistics issue (given that one or more billionaires are involved in this entire project), and more of a, well, security issue, so to speak. Because as far as I can understand, plenty of Dark Hats are yet to be grabbed / arrested, and given that folks like the CIA / FBI etc. are involved in here, I'm assuming technological interferences of a highlyadvanced nature (towards this project) are MORE THAN likely.
So then that's why things are proceeding at the pace (and in the ways) that they're proceeding at now, I'm guessing. Waters are being tested at practically every single step, and decisions regarding when to move, when to pause, when to stop, when to move again, are being made accordingly as such.
A very, very, complex puzzle for them to solve given the sheer amount of entities (government, military, spies, big tech, big pharma, hedge funds and whatnot) and conflicting interests and numerous other volatile factors being involved in here (as part of the Grand PLAN), is what I feel as being the case in here.
No. Have some perspective.
This is a public beta, and they have to scale, not just server infrastructure, but staff as well, with users. It would be impossible to be ready to support such a large user base overnight, especially when they didn't really know what the actual number would be. They need preliminary data to know how much they need to scale per user, and then they need to get those resources, which in the case of support staff, takes time due to hiring processes.
Don't take everything so personally.
Understood. From my own experience, if the technical infrastructure is setup properly with cloud computing, scaling should be automatic, so it's not likely a hardware issue. However, when they first launched, they didn't know how many users they were going to get. They can estimate, but if they do, they are always going to use a conservative number so they don't waste a bunch of time and resources due to over-projection. This is important for things like support staffing. You're going to need technical support for users (at an unknown rate), moderators to address reports, etc., etc. This is a major bottleneck, because unlike hardware which even if you're not using a cloud deployment, you can just go buy more, people have to be interviewed and hired, which takes time.
In my opinion, this was very smart, because it gives them the numbers they need to support before it happens. Much like crowd-sourced products -- it's a commitment to be a user.
Additionally, it's a way to add exclusivity, which increases the demand. Your friends may be feeling like it's not worth the wait, but generally speaking, that is never the market reaction to having to wait for something (especially if it's free, and doesn't cost them a dime or a second of their time to be on that waitlist). Look at how Nintendo marketed the Wii: they never produced a surplus, so there was always high demand even two years after its release. It prolonged the interest in the system, and it still felt like the new Nintendo system even years after its release (which is good, because Nintendo is very slow and lagging in the console market).
It also allows people to reserve registration, so you don't have to keep going back to the app and rushing to enter your information every time they open up registration for an hour or two for the next round of beta testing.
I can't really sympathize with that feeling. It's just your place in line (though, I'm not sure how accurate that number really is).
All of this said, it's still social media -- and your quality of life will always be higher without it.
I personally feel that this is less of a logistics issue (given that one or more billionaires are involved in this entire project), and more of a, well, security issue, so to speak. Because as far as I can understand, plenty of Dark Hats are yet to be grabbed / arrested, and given that folks like the CIA / FBI etc. are involved in here, I'm assuming technological interferences of a highly advanced nature (towards this project) are MORE THAN likely.
So then that's why things are proceeding at the pace (and in the ways) that they're proceeding at now, I'm guessing. Waters are being tested at practically every single step, and decisions regarding when to move, when to pause, when to stop, when to move again, are being made accordingly as such.
A very, very, complex puzzle for them to solve given the sheer amount of entities (government, military, spies, big tech, big pharma, hedge funds and whatnot) and conflicting interests and numerous other volatile factors being involved in here (as part of the Grand PLAN), is what I feel as being the case in here.