A couple of days ago, someone behind the scenes “pushed the wrong button” and everyone was able to sign in using Windows Live Messenger, even without an invite! A few sites jumped the gun and took it as the signal that the beta was now open for everyone, which isn’t actually the case. Earlier today the “problem” was rectified and now we’re back to requiring special access to sign in.
But something else happened at the same time: the invite system changed a little, you no longer need someone to send you an invite. Instead, you can now just go to a URL which grants you access and away you go.
I asked someone on the beta team earlier today what the story was:
Direct Sign-up was just enabled through Ideas.live.com yesterday, which enables people to get directly into the Closed (read: not Managed) Beta… We are helping the Messenger team scale their service, and as such enabled Direct Sign-up to make it easier for people to join and get the service.
So it looks like they’re stepping things up a notch and want more users testing.
Invitations can still be sent and do work, Leah also posted about this today, she gives a good reason to still send out your current invitations:
If you are already using the beta and have invitations left, we still encourage you to send them out. People are way more likely to try out the beta if they receive a formal recommendation from you.
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