the origins beta is already active, but it has received patches. It's internal only atm clearly.The forums will be down on Thursday from 9am PST/Noon EST to 11am PST/2PM EST. I asked on Discord if that would be a problem for starting beta, as we don't know what time it starts, and Denmum said:
Denmum — Yesterday at 10:50 PM
The forums "should" be back up an hour before the beta begins.
So not sure how much earlier than that the beta download will be available, but probably not much earlier. Nobody wants to be downloading the previous beta by accident, though, ugh.