Pottermore Congratulations Emails+Insider Update

[mujie]

Pottermore are now sending "selected for early entry" email to some beta testers, which state the following:

You have been selected for early entry into Pottermore!We’re really excited to confirm that you are one of the lucky people selected for early entry into Pottermore, ahead of when it is open-to-all in October, to help us add finishing touches!

We will activate your account between mid-August and the end of September, so keep checking your inbox for our Welcome email. When this arrives you will be able to enter Pottermore. In the meantime, you can check the Pottermore Insider for all the latest news, updates and announcements.

We look forward to welcoming you to Pottermore.



Not getting the email yet does not mean you'll get later access than those who do. It is suggested that they are sending them out in different blocks, so to speak. Though we have yet to figure out the pattern they're using to send them. It doesn't fit first-come-first-serve, that's for sure.

Pottermore Insider has also been updated. As you can see, it mentions the new emails. It also says why the sign in link has gone from pottermore. Well, it says when it will be back. It will be back when the first testers get access.

Sorry. I don't know which forum to put this in.

[snivydash]

To quote Mini:

"We are now Pottermore's bitches."

[ijenae]

^ I wish I could like that post

[romii]

Thats great!!
I want my email!

[iSteveSMASH]

Steve no happy about this....Steve angry...STEVE SMASH.

Needless to say their 'early access' was just to see if people were excited enough to get moving- obviously they were. I doubt it will be open until end of September.

[appingo]

They did say mid-August to September though, I know Pottermore's staff been getting a lot of emails and phonecalls, and general panic from several people online. I'm sure it was sent out as a way to calm the masses.

Just to note, we could actually technically be in that 'Mid-August' timeframe now, but I wouldn't expect anything until early next week.

[mujie]

People did ask for an email saying when they would get their welcome emails, but I think the pottermore people were being a bit silly. Everyone knew that. I think they should've said the week. They wanted it to be more specific.

[sheik]

Hahaha, I like what Mini said XD.

[theking17825]

I still haven't gotten my congrats letter..... gah. :/

[WolfDawn185]

I still haven't gotten any e-mail like that... maybe it's slow to send out a million e-mails? Probably. Oh well. Or maybe I entered my e-mail address wrong... that would suck right about now. But I can't remember.

[snivydash]

They better let us in as soon as possible; don't see the harm in maintaining about one hundred plus users a day. After all, you're not going to improve the servers in a month and if they want our suggestions, we won't be able to help if we're all at school mid-way through September.

[WolfDawn185]

I agree, Dash. They should just let as many people in each day as they can handle (maybe get more servers, too? Or upgrade servers? I'm not sure how it works, exactly) so that not only do all the Harry Potter fans get in faster, but they can also do more rigorous load tests and improve things faster and easier. It's a win-win.

[iSteveSMASH]

I got my e-mail today about the early access. Nothing different from what everyone else recieved. I'm dismayed by this, I'd hoped it would be access-related.

[TheChosenOne]

I also noticed that people thought this was their Welcome e-mail... Maybe Pottermore should have sent an e-mail before the Congratulations e-mail saying that they were going to send an e-mail that wasn't their Welcome e-mail and to not think that this e-mail nor the next one is the Welcome e-mail? ...Whoa, I just confused myself.

I still laugh at Mini's quote, it really made that day for me. And lol at your post, SteveSMASH. It probably IS really slow to send the letters to each person. They have to put your name, get your address right, blah blah blah. And finally, I agree with that lost post of yours, Wolf. It could be sorta like Club Penguin.

I really do hope they release the beta soon, I have already started school, and I want to try it before I'm busy with 3-hour projects and homework and all that.

[sweetb29]

I got my welcome email this morning!! I also happen to have got in on the last day/last clue. I don't know if that means anything...