We'll probably start with logged out home to a percentage of traffic and work our way to updating the rest of the site and handling the full traffic over a few weeks.
If people need help converting their apps, I believe the Firebase guys have offered to help. Contact us at api@ycombinator.com and we'll connect you.
Love the staged roll out idea. You could probably also use user agents to recognize scrapers from real users (could also be helpful for slowly rolling out to older browsers).
If people need help converting their apps, I believe the Firebase guys have offered to help. Contact us at api@ycombinator.com and we'll connect you.