Cracking the Door Ajar (JKRowling Official site)

[Gandore Dumbledalf]

Jen wrote:
>...if nothing is behind there yet and
> JKR has told us to be patient, why not wait until she makes it
> possible to open the door on-site?
>
> Also, JKR referred to the opening of the door as the work of
> fans 'hacking' her site--do you consider what you're working on
> hacking or not?


I would think that using all regular built-in options of shockwave
interactive menus is not hacking; it's just that the wizard behind
the curtain didn't close the door option-wise. It's supposed to only
show up when X happens. Since they fixed it, it's not 'hackable'.

Tom Riddle's diary; writing in it is not hacking, casting a spell
or unbinding it would be hacking. Writing in 'what is the index?'
and getting unintentional data from the index of the book would
be messing with the intent.. Which I guess is the point.

I guess since there's no 'hacking-lite' term, but a bit naughty to 
generalize us fans as having 'hacked' the site. Not a good perception..

More like 'okay, we figured out 4 puzzles, where's the rest?' 

More of an underestimation of people figuring out puzzles versus content scheduling.

"Gandore Dumbledalf"