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[Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A warning from experience: beware that our current feature flag story works pretty well for beta testing authenticated users, but not so well for anonymous users.  We should be vigilant to make sure that things work for anonymous users before turning flags on for everyone--presumably by turning flags on for everyone on local instances and then on qastaging/staging (as appropriate) and doing some exploratory testing.
>

Hi, Gary.

Can you be specific about what didn't work for you?  Is it that the
feature flag system assumes an authenticated user, and so once opened
for everyone, anonymous users saw nothing as if the content was still
hidden behind the flag?  Or was the behavior more unpredictable for
anonymous users and flags?  Just curious about the sort of problem to
look for myself.

Cheers,
deryck

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