User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-474870-20100901201840/@comment-473563-20100904012004

I agree it is frustrating not knowing if you have an email coming or not but as far as eagerness to engage in beta testing is concerned I suspect that there are at least two schools of thought.

Mendel offered good insight into the virtues of gradually engaging users into private beta test environment and I think it might have been Sannse who confirmed some of that rationale. (Don't ask me for a link - it's too darn hard to locate anything useful in such a long list of threaded comments.)

I think I'd be tearing my hair out if I was involved in the beta right now.

I'd much rather spend time on something that is "close to the end product" than on bug-ridden earlier versions.

What I would have enjoyed being a part of was review of the target specification for the new skin. That is where real influence might have been possible. As it is today this all seems very much fait accompli.