Okay, so I’d say 11/11/11 is out. Maybe they’ll go for 12/12/12.

Discouraging. Really, really discouraging. Especially for those of us who couldn’t sit up and wait half our lives for the ruddy quill only because we have to work full-time.

I am honestly a little disappointed. This is the 2nd time they have had to extend the date! Like a few of you, I was not lucky enough to be one of the beta testers – I was away at camp that week!!! Anyways, I guess I am glad that by the time I get on it will be practically perfect, but the thing is, I don’t want to wait. I want to be part of the experience!!! It will build up my Potterhead experience. Thanks for all the encouraging remarks, Beta Testers, but there isn’t really much to cheer us non-Beta-Tester Potterheads up. Ah well. I always say I miss something to look forward to, but this might be pushing it just a tad…just a tad.

Hope this lives up to the hype as the waiting for the rest of us (non-betas) is getting to be a real pain in the neck.

I’m really glad I got there so soon, all this waiting must be awful.

I am so disappointed… Its the first time when i’m disappointed with anything Potter related. the fact that they dont give us any new eventual date means that they wont open the site this year. They couldnt deal with the issues since June till October so i guess they will need another few months. And then another months of waiting for e-mail…… I am soooooooooooo ANGRY!!! Eh :’(

I agree with Night Zephyr and others – too disappointing and like others I was not able to compete in the Quill competition. Oh well I have the books and films and maybe I don’t really need a website too.

I am not sure I want to join pottermore. Been thinking about it and I guest I might not. Maybe somedays.

Sugaharry: The problem with meeting the October opening date was they thought what they had in July would cope with the load and the beta period showed it didn’t. They have had most of October to re-plan, and are starting to make changes next week. So I think it is entirely plausible they can get the site ready in another month or so.
However they aren’t giving us a date as they have already tried that and found they couldn’t meet it.

Roonwit: I’d love if this would go the route that you described but i have a bad feeling about this. Hopefully they will open the site this year though. At least they should open the registration and then wait a bit with sending e-mails if it’ll be needed. I’m sure it would make some potterheads be less mad about pottermore.

As a beta tester, I think most Potter fans would be disappointed if they opened the site to you as planned. Dueling doesn’t work at this time (I haven’t even had a chance to duel, as I was one of the later e-mails), and potion brewing is still really, really, buggy (potions get stuck in loops where they never finish brewing, the counters for how many ingredients you added and how many times you stirred don’t always work). I know several people who have reached a point in the story and gotten stuck, so they cannot finish it, or even get sorted! So please be patient. Adding millions of more users to the site will not make these problems go away, they will just make you more annoyed.

I completely agree with Laura. I was one of those people who got their welcome email with the last batch in late September, and I currently have nothing left to do but wait until they fix some stuff and let everyone in. The whole experience is stalled right now, so I don’t bother to brew potions that are going to get stuck (and then lose all of my ingredients), and you can’t duel (I was never able to even try), and only the first book it open for exploration. I’ve gone through the first book three times and am now just kind of bored with it.

Don’t get me wrong im not trying to be pesimistic but its the end of october and the site isnt working as it should even for BETA testers. How much time they will need to put many more people in then? Im afraid it will take a longer while (Months?).

I honestly have to say that I don’t mind waiting for this to be debugged and perfected more. I have sort of put it out of my mind, and I figure, when they have it down, then it will be much more satisfying when we finally get in. Postponing pleasure is a lesson well learned: here and in life. It’s something really special to look forward to. You know the old saying, ‘Having never equals wanting’. It probably applies here.

They say a boat is a hole in the ocean you throw your money into…. Methinks Pottermore just may be a hole in the internet that our dearest Jo will be throwing her money into! :+/

I’m glad they’re improving the site! For those are complaining, please just shut up. It’s annoying compared to all the work they put into this site. If you were disappointed by the site, then, well, they’re trying to impress you by this. Don’t worry for those of you who didn’t get in (me included) we’re going to, it’s not like it’ll never happen.