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Hi Everyone,

We wanted to let everyone know how the alpha invites are working.

After some thinking before we started sending invites out, we decided that it would be more useful for everyone if we gave out invites at a slower rate, but gave more invites to those invited. If we gave one give one invite to all 6,479 backers the first day, that would not be helpful for anyone. We wouldn't be able to see how people were really using Diaspora, and people would not be able to have their real friends on the site.

Instead, we started giving ten invites to a smaller number of backers, and increasing that number as we can handle it. After all, a social network is only fun if you can talk to your friends.

We are working as fast as we can to get invites out to our backers, and rest assured we are not sending invites to people who did not back us before people that did not. If you did see someone who is on before a backer, we did not send them the invite, one of their friends (who was a backer) did.

Thanks,
Maxwell, Daniel, Ilya, and Raphael

Hello backers,

Yesterday we started sending out invites for our Alpha server at https://joindiaspora.com. We are slowly inviting people, starting with the 6500ish of all of you. We are taking baby steps in this process, fixing problems as they crop up. This is going to help us solve problems we could have never anticipated. It may take awhile for them to get to all of you. Rest assured, they are coming.

Also, people started receiving their backer rewards in the mail (just check Twitter for proof!) If you for some reason think you did not get the survey, please email us at addr@joindiaspora.com and we will make it right. If you are getting a 404 error, it probably means you already completed the backer survey. Unfortunately, we can not re send surveys, as this is not something we have access to.

These are exciting times for all of us!

Thanks for supporting Diaspora,

Maxwell

Hey Everyone,

Good news. Last week, we sent out all of the orders for the tee shirts, stickers and CDs to the fulfillment company to get shipped out. Hopefully they will get to you all soon. For those of you who submitted your backer survey* slightly after the September 17th deadline, we will try our best to get them out to you in as soon as we can.

Thanks,

Maxwell, Raphael, Ilya and Daniel

* You would have gotten a backer survey if you requested rewards when you pledged. If you don't remember getting a survey, check your spam folder.

Here is our announcement on our blog: http://joindiaspora.com/2010/09/15/developer-release.html

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora

Want to talk more about Diaspora with your fellow backers?

Diaspora Discuss group: http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-discuss

Diaspora Developer group: http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-dev

Remember, the user facing alpha should be dropping in October.

Happy Hacking,

Maxwell, Daniel, Ilya, and Raphael