UPDATE: Monday, March 31st 04:30 PST - Release has progressed as planned, and we now have 53 applications approved for launch tomorrow. If you got us your userids before about midnight, you can access the platform on www.hi5.com now. Currently the platform is open only to whitelisted users. Release to the rest of our users will proceed as planned starting at 12:00 pm PST today. If you were late getting your application submitted or getting your ids whitelisted, not to worry, contact us at platform-help@hi5.com and we'll do our best to accommodate you as soon as possible.
The hi5 Platform is set to launch tomorrow. Details of the rollout plan are as follows.
We will rollout to percentages of our user base based on userid ranges. In addition to that we have implemented a user whitelist to allow developers with apps that are launching and hi5 developers to see the platform regardless of rollout percentage. If you are a developer with an app launching and have not yet sent us ids to whitelist for the launch please send your developers' hi5 ids to platform-help@hi5.com and we'll add them to the whitelist.
Tonight, Sunday March 30th
We will be reviewing and approving applications, which will then be live in production to whitelisted accounts only. At this point developers will be able to review and test their applications in production. This is not a hard deadline for approving apps. If you miss tonight and your app is ready, just send an email to platform-help@hi5.com and we'll review and approve as soon as possible.
Monday March 31st
We will start opening up the platform to our userbase. The tentative plan is to open up to 1% of users at 12:00 PST, and roll out to as much as 10% over the course of the day depending on performance and bug reports.
After Monday, we will continue rolling out as quickly as possible, again depending on perfomance and bug reports. We will roll to 100% as quickly as possible, but are tentatively planning to allow 2 weeks. If we can reach 100% sooner, we will. We will be patching often, so please report bugs to us at platform-help@hi5.com as the rollout progresses. We will also be opening up our bug tracking system in the coming days to provide a better way for reporting and tracking issues, we'll blog when that happens.
Throughout this period the hi5 platform team will continue to be available on our irc channel at irc.freenode.net #hi5dev. We encourage you to escalate any serious issues to us there as well.
Viral Channels During Rollout
During the rollout period EMAIL will be disabled, as it's difficult to control sending emails only to users in the release pool. requestSendMessage with type=EMAIL will return a NOT_IMPLEMENTED response with an explanation that it's disabled for rollout during this period.
All other viral channels will be on and functioning as normal. Notifications, Friend Updates, and Application Invites will be delivered to all users. However, users not in the release pool will not see them until they enter the pool. So, a user entering the pool later this week who has received any of these items prior to entering the pool, will have them waiting for them with alerts on their homepage to that effect.
A big thank you to all the developers who have been hard at work preparing for launching applications with us tomorrow. We're all very excited at hi5 about tomorrow's launch and the tremendous value we expect your applications to provide to our users.
The hi5 Platform is set to launch tomorrow. Details of the rollout plan are as follows.
We will rollout to percentages of our user base based on userid ranges. In addition to that we have implemented a user whitelist to allow developers with apps that are launching and hi5 developers to see the platform regardless of rollout percentage. If you are a developer with an app launching and have not yet sent us ids to whitelist for the launch please send your developers' hi5 ids to platform-help@hi5.com and we'll add them to the whitelist.
Tonight, Sunday March 30th
We will be reviewing and approving applications, which will then be live in production to whitelisted accounts only. At this point developers will be able to review and test their applications in production. This is not a hard deadline for approving apps. If you miss tonight and your app is ready, just send an email to platform-help@hi5.com and we'll review and approve as soon as possible.
Monday March 31st
We will start opening up the platform to our userbase. The tentative plan is to open up to 1% of users at 12:00 PST, and roll out to as much as 10% over the course of the day depending on performance and bug reports.
After Monday, we will continue rolling out as quickly as possible, again depending on perfomance and bug reports. We will roll to 100% as quickly as possible, but are tentatively planning to allow 2 weeks. If we can reach 100% sooner, we will. We will be patching often, so please report bugs to us at platform-help@hi5.com as the rollout progresses. We will also be opening up our bug tracking system in the coming days to provide a better way for reporting and tracking issues, we'll blog when that happens.
Throughout this period the hi5 platform team will continue to be available on our irc channel at irc.freenode.net #hi5dev. We encourage you to escalate any serious issues to us there as well.
Viral Channels During Rollout
During the rollout period EMAIL will be disabled, as it's difficult to control sending emails only to users in the release pool. requestSendMessage with type=EMAIL will return a NOT_IMPLEMENTED response with an explanation that it's disabled for rollout during this period.
All other viral channels will be on and functioning as normal. Notifications, Friend Updates, and Application Invites will be delivered to all users. However, users not in the release pool will not see them until they enter the pool. So, a user entering the pool later this week who has received any of these items prior to entering the pool, will have them waiting for them with alerts on their homepage to that effect.
A big thank you to all the developers who have been hard at work preparing for launching applications with us tomorrow. We're all very excited at hi5 about tomorrow's launch and the tremendous value we expect your applications to provide to our users.
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