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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Gmail was invite only at first probably because Google didn’t want it to grow faster than they could buy hard drives. It gave you a gigabyte of email storage which at the time was huge. I’m certain they did that for technical reasons.

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Doug@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Might Bluesky be doing the same?

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- GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Slow roll until the infrastructure can handle it and a little bit of that “exclusive” feel to it since not everyone can just join immediately.
  
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  - Doug@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    So more Gmail than G+
    
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- Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah they’re working hard on scaling, they’ve had recurring performance issues but have managed to get it stable again even with higher load now
  
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geosoco@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It's also easier to find and fix bugs with smaller numbers of people, especially performance bugs which can be amplified at scale. So it gives them a lot of time to work through issues over the beta. It also gives them time to build teams around the expanding infrastructure and build processes for monitoring and handling issues as a larger team.

Plus, these invite only periods start with more tech savy early adopters who more willing to put up with issues, and willing to provide decent bug reports to fix them.

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0_0j@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
“i am the choosen one!” As if…

Boy, our servers are ducktaped!

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