Topic

Facebook friends

I'm delighted that we are getting an opportunity to issue invites to some of our friends.
I'm not pleased that it solely through Facebook
For a variety of reasons, I have made  the decision to have nothing to do with Facebook. I realise I am in the minority, but there are some of us out their who object to it. Could there not be a provision made for 
those of us who would prefer to issue an invitation through  email, or even Twitter?

Posted 20 months ago by caley dunn Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Email is coming (though Twitter probably not — the "follower" dynamic isn't a good representation of people you actually know, which is what we're trying to do with the new system: prioritize inviting people who already know each other).
    Posted 20 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Fair enough.. Twitter has indeed changed since the early days of 2006 ( when it were all fields I tell'ya)   Only some of us use it like party line.
     Funnily enough, two players I know are here because of our connection on Twitter. 
    I appreciate the community you're trying to build here and  having an email option will be just fine. 
    I have to say I never cease to be impressed with the rapid responses.
    Posted 20 months ago by caley dunn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So if a friend on facebook wants to play, what do they do to sign up and what do i do to add them?
    Posted 20 months ago by FrankenPaula Subscriber! | Permalink
  • They go here and sign up to indicate they want to test: glitch.com/join — and then you go here beta.glitch.com/invites/sug... to click the invite button.
    Posted 20 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just tried w/a friend that I know wants to play, she shows up but I get an "error invite fails" message.
    Posted 20 months ago by Gizmospooky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oops! Thanks Gizmospooky, we'll look into that error.
    Posted 20 months ago by eric Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks, I am on the phone now and had her check and she is on the "wait" list. Thanks for checking.
    Posted 20 months ago by Gizmospooky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've now fixed Gizmospooky's problem. For other folks who are trying the invite feature, please let us know if you get an error and we'll look into why certain invites are failing.

    Thanks!
    Posted 20 months ago by hitherto Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had a friend who's invite isn't working (technically he was invited by player name Seo)

    Feel free to PM me or Seo, (but I'm on more than Seo is) for our invitee's email or other info.
    Posted 20 months ago by Btaylor Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have a friend who has requested an invite @ /join but she's not showing up on my /suggest/. She used FB connect and Liked playglitch on FB. Other people have shown up fine, but she doesn't. She requested an invite with email first and FB connect after, if that matters.
    Posted 20 months ago by Silensy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you for the reports — we're looking into them as they happen. It's a new system so some kinks are expected (but in most cases it has been missing or malformed email addresses which we were foolishly allowing for a while).
    Posted 20 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Great news, Stoot - I will just wait for the email option, as I am like Caley and not on FaceBook.
    Posted 20 months ago by riscy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm not on Facebook either*, and am looking forward to inviting some equally careful people to join Glitch.

    *I have one of the earliest Facebook accounts, since I was attending school at one of the first universities added to the system.  But their intense mining of personal data has me scrambling each time they add something else you have to opt-out of.  I only visit the site to lock down data. 
    Posted 20 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Email would be great, I have a friend who I would like to invite but doesnt have a Facebook account.
    Posted 20 months ago by Teena Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I also have a FB friend I'm trying to send an invite too. When I go to beta.glitch.com/invites/sug... (in the post earlier in the thread), I get the error message "There are currently no Facebook invites available for players to send." 
    Posted 20 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Help!!! I got a wife that is pretty mad at me, coz I promised her she would play Glitch today... F1!F1!F1!
    Posted 20 months ago by Toyaga Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There are currently none available? Huh?
    Posted 20 months ago by Hburger Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, I noticed there are none available right now either.  My girlfriend is really looking forward to playing this with me though lol.  Hopefully it gets fixed before she wakes up or I'll have to explain to her why she can't play with me...awwww
    Posted 20 months ago by Robo Lobo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Also had a friend who didn't show up after signing the facebook link last night, so I couldn't invite him, and he waited a lonnnnnnnnnnnnggg time to play. :P
    Posted 20 months ago by Moon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • non-facebook invites would be nice. i dont even have a facebook account.
    Posted 20 months ago by Jellyfish Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Same here, hoping that they open it again, had a friend who couldn't sign up in time. They're signed up now though, so if they open up facebook invites, they'll get one, haha.
    Posted 20 months ago by Mocha Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So, to answer points from the last few hours...

    Friends not showing up: To be clear, in order for your friend to show up, they need to have signed up via glitch.com/join and linked with their facebook account during signup.

    Tibbi, Toyaga, Moon, I'll be contacting you separately to look into your individual problems.

    No more invites available: While we'd love to be, we're not quite at the point of being able to invite tens of thousands of people to join at once, yet. 

    Facebook invites will be available in small (but hopefully ever-embiggening) batches for now. There might very well possibly be another batch today, but we're still making a final decision on that. Keep an eye out, though!

    Non-Facebook invites: will be coming very, very soon. Note, though, that the invitee will still have to have signed up on glitch.com/join before you can send them an invite.
    Posted 20 months ago by hitherto Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, look at that! There might very well possibly is another batch of invites open right now.

    Get 'em while they're hot, folks!
    Posted 20 months ago by hitherto Subscriber! | Permalink
  • hitherto, I am also having problems with a friend who signed up with Facebook connect not showing up on my list. Would you mind taking a look at it?

    Thank you
    Isaac
    Posted 20 months ago by Mister Trix Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Skimmed through this thread, so sorry if it is already answered and I missed it - I have a friend on FB who signed up.  (I am no longer on FB)

    Will I be able to "see" her as I know her email and bump her forward?
    Posted 20 months ago by riscy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • riscy, sorry, no. Right now the invites only work for one FB account to another. Eventually we will have more ways to invite!
    Posted 20 months ago by eric Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 on sending invites to friends via email. The multi-step process of:
    1) Telling friend to request access.
    2) Telling friend to sign in with Facebook ID
    3) Going to my Invite area, hoping they show up and then finally sending them invite
    ...is really tedious.

    @hitherto - When you do allow email invites, why will friend have to have pre-joined before I can email invite? Why can't the email invite prompt them to join and then sign in with the "invite code" I provide them? Seems like Glitch invites are more complicated than other systems.
    Posted 20 months ago by George McFly Subscriber! | Permalink
  • George McFly, yeah, it is tedious, and it can be complicated. But bear in mind that we are still in closed beta; we really only want people in the game to test who really want to play, and have expressed an interest. Out goal right now is not to make it easy to invite people (it will be eventually of course, just not right now) but to continue to gather a core group of testers. So we have this big backlog of people who have signed up but not been invited, and it occurred to use that it sure would be neat, both for us testing social features of the game, and for our existing users, if we could invite people from that backlog of signups who had some IRL connections to people already playing the game.

    In short, we're not looking to attract new people to sign up to be testers right now, we're trying to invite from the backlog of signups we already have in a way that makes as many people as happy as possible :)
    Posted 20 months ago by eric Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @eric - thanks for the info.
    Posted 20 months ago by riscy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My friend has requested an invite and she's not showing up on my friends who needs an invite list.
    Posted 20 months ago by GretaZuFs Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @eric - Thanks. Makes sense.
    Posted 20 months ago by George McFly Subscriber! | Permalink
  • GretaZuFs : can you ask her to check whether her signup request was linked with Facebook via this tool? glitch.com/fb/

    If she's still having trouble after going through that process, please post back here and we'll take a closer look.

    Thanks!
    Posted 20 months ago by hitherto Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm having trouble adding a facebook friend too.  My friend says he may not be searchable by his email, would that affect the invite?  This friend does show up as "friends also using this app" when I go to the glitch facebook page.
    Posted 20 months ago by Marie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am also having trouble inviting a friend. He has signed up and connected via FB, but he doesn't show up on my invite list!

    Edit: He checked to see if his FB account was connected correctly with glitch.com/fb/ and it was.
    Posted 20 months ago by Fenchurch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I find that I always get the error:

    error: invite add failed


    When trying to add my friend.
    Posted 20 months ago by Homer Grey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Is there a possibility that more FB invites will be available today? I have one player just itchin' to get in! Thanks!
    Posted 20 months ago by Mistress*of*Fishies Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes! In fact, there are some now!
    Posted 20 months ago by hitherto Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Any news about being able to invite people if you're not a FB user?

    My friend has requested an invite, and I know the email address used.
    Posted 19 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Will there be any more Facebook invites available? I've finally met a RL person who's keen to play the game!
    Posted 19 months ago by Momo McGlitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sorry to make the already-so-long list even longer, but I too have a friend who signed up with Facebook that I cannot invite. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I really like the idea of playing with friends and people I already know in addition to those already around.
    Posted 19 months ago by Put Q. Simply Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have my sister and a coworker all pumped up about the game....  Was assuming I could invite once the game opened again. 

    Hope to hear from a dev on this!

    Edit: thanks for the help kevbov!
    Posted 19 months ago by Pirate Apples Subscriber! | Permalink