META: What the hell's going on out here

Submitted by SAMgO on

Even for a site not exactly known for constant stability, a two hour constant outage on NSD that requires a total reset with a ton of lost posts? Cumong man.

Please, please let us all chip in for a total overhaul this offseason.

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LSAClassOf2000

February 1st, 2017 at 3:41 PM ^

Yeah, but having seen a Drupal site in action, would you want to create one? Serious question.

Actually, I could get into it and I was deleting the the "Hello" posts that were not recruiting or Lionel Richie related when the big reset and loss of much of today's data occurred. Very odd indeed, even for this site (we rarely see the sort of failures that result in an entire day being erased, but yeah, something needs to improve).

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bluebyyou

February 1st, 2017 at 4:00 PM ^

Odd?  Hardly, the only thing you can guarantee about this site's performance is that if you are depending on it, you are likely to be disappointed if anything newsworthy is taking place.

Brian has put way too much into this site to be indifferent.  If there is something going on that is none of our business, I respect that, but otherwise, a very loyal community deserves some comment about the future of this site.

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Yooper

February 1st, 2017 at 4:44 PM ^

It always baffles me why Brian is so reluctant to communicate with his customers regarding their complaints, his intentions regarding responding to service issues, etc.  It is disrespectful.  It is like sitting on a plane that won't take off and the pilot won't tell you what's going on.  It is customer service 101-your customers, especially the loyal ones, will put up with a lot if you tell them what's going on and what steps you are taking to meet expectations.  

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bluebyyou

February 2nd, 2017 at 11:06 AM ^

Some of us are his customers.  Until this year, I always sent something in the way of a contribution Brian's way every year.  This year I haven't because it is the only way I can think of to send a message.

If this site were updated to something decent, I'd be way more generous,

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MonkeyMan

February 1st, 2017 at 5:05 PM ^

"It always baffles me why Brian is so reluctant to communicate with his customers regarding their complaints, his intentions regarding responding to service issues, etc.  It is disrespectful."

Brian knows that all you will ever do is bitch and moan- but keep coming back. He knows his reader base is made of people who just gripe or are too lazy to create their own site. What really angers you is that he has read you correctly.

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Gr1mlock

February 1st, 2017 at 3:14 PM ^

Well that was weird.  Though Brian and the gang picked today of all days to do a massive site update.  Hacked?  Somebody pressed the wrong button? Hamster went on strike?

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Magnus

February 1st, 2017 at 4:18 PM ^

Too much traffic was the problem with my site. Not sure about MGoBlog, but I'm guessing that was the problem here, too.

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