Yep, although the latest people I invited got access within 2 days average.

If anyone has any left, I'd like an invite. (my screen name at gmail.com)
Nevermind.

If anyone has an extra one hanging around doing nothing, I'd appreciate one. I've been waiting a few weeks, so it seems as though mine didn't go through or something? (given that everyone else got their'stheirs already)....

Anyhow, if anyone's feeling generous with an invite that's not destined for anything anyway, my email is baf [at] baf.cc

I got offered invitation from another forum. Don't know how long it took to reach me after the guy sent. But now I have wave! \o/

First issue for me is. What's with the scrollbars? Why make special ones, I don't think they work as well as normal scrollbars...

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gnolam, where's the rest of the image? Or at least, what does the guy saying "Hello?" say after that?

BTW, wasn't GMail like this in the beginning? If so, how long do you think it will take before getting an invite at least is as easy as just looking for a place that have lots of people using Wave (and eventually, the SMS thing that GMail had before it did away with invites).

While I appreciate being called "great," my name is not Mat or even Matt.

Yes, but you could send an e-mail to anybody once you got your account. Wave minus your contacts is useless.

I meant in terms of people being able to use it (the invites), not how useful it was once you could use it. It just sucks that unlike e-mail itself, it's boring if you don't have people to use it with.

Perhaps it has something to do with the Facebook model. Invite smart people and their friends first, so the it doesn't turn into 4-chan.

Any community develops an informal code of conduct. If you hand pick the people who start a community, then you have a good idea of what kind of rules newcomers will be expected to follow when they come along. That doesn't mean the newcomers will follow the informal rules, and it doesn't mean the rules won't change, but from a social standpoint it makes more sense than giving everyone access from the start.

There's also the fact that exclusivity makes people desire things they don't really want, and that it's probably a good move from a technological standpoint too.

No, I totally disagree. People won't want to use the service if it gets hijacked from the start by a bunch of /b/tards. At least in the beginning. Once it's big enough. more people doesn't affect the image of the product that much.

A good example: religion.

Lately, a bunch of wacko republicans have been hijacking it, and people don't want to be associated with the wackos.

since i have no one to collaborate with yet really.. i've been using it as a whiteboard and todolist, and quick place to send links and code with myself on various computers.