I thought I'd lost you all forever last night.
quote:Originally posted by Moomin:
I thought I'd lost you all forever last night.
Me too, went over to DS, not the same at all. Phew at least it's back now.
It didn't bother me at all....If I'm watching, I'm watching and if I'm forumming, I'm forumming.
I watched the eviction from the comfort of my bed.
As for the site going down, these things happen....hardly a big deal.
I watched the eviction from the comfort of my bed.
As for the site going down, these things happen....hardly a big deal.
quote:Originally posted by Steven:
Hopefully next time we can give you all more advanced notice of an emergency system failure.
WHAT!!! you mean this wasn't all pre planned?
i am so disapointed, i was going to start a conspiracy thread.
There was a warning .... I'll try and find it ..... I think it was a sticky
That thing happened late afternoon...last night wasn't pre-planned.
Is this the new place or not?couldnt get on last night so I assumed this was the new place! 
Can I unpack my trunk yet?quote:Originally posted by Steven:
Hopefully next time we can give you all more advanced notice of an emergency system failure.
Who forgot to put a shilling in the meter?
quote:Originally posted by DanceSettee:quote:Originally posted by sunny dayz:
Is there anywhere else where people are going?
dunno...but it would be nice if we could all have a back up plan for when this happens again
yeah i thought the same. I am comfy here and dont want and cant be bothered to find anywhere else but if its going to keep going down and right now is it here we post or live cloud? And I cant get into live cloud....
I am very confused to tbh.
I like ths forum and i like the forum setup, but just wondered where else there was IF anyone was going anywhere, i know there was a few kicking around at the begining, wtd etc.
As I understand it, we are not there yet .... I think the whole forum will look different once we are there ... so don't unpack just yet Figtreequote:Originally posted by figtree:
But this forum is run from the USA, so surely with the 8 hour time difference, the maintenance WAS planned for a relatively quiet time - early Friday afternoon US time? Surely no-one expects people who run a website on another continent to plan their maintenance needs around a TV show in the UK?quote:Originally posted by DanceSettee:quote:Originally posted by Steven:
Hopefully next time we can give you all more advanced notice of an emergency system failure.
I'd prefer an explanation of why you choose to do maintenance at the busiest time to be honest.
I assume the system failure was related.
this site isn't often down sunny.just bad timing made it more noticeable last night.quote:Originally posted by sunny dayz:quote:Originally posted by DanceSettee:quote:Originally posted by sunny dayz:
Is there anywhere else where people are going?
dunno...but it would be nice if we could all have a back up plan for when this happens again
yeah i thought the same. I am comfy here and dont want and cant be bothered to find anywhere else but if its going to keep going down and right now is it here we post or live cloud? And I cant get into live cloud....
I am very confused to tbh.
I like ths forum and i like the forum setup, but just wondered where else there was IF anyone was going anywhere, i know there was a few kicking around at the begining, wtd etc.
why can't you get into livecloud? if you are here, which you are, it means you are already registered at livecloud, don't try to get in by the link on the top right of this page, go to https://www.hoo.do.
quote:Originally posted by JacksonB:this site isn't often down sunny.just bad timing made it more noticeable last night.quote:Originally posted by sunny dayz:quote:Originally posted by DanceSettee:quote:Originally posted by sunny dayz:
Is there anywhere else where people are going?
dunno...but it would be nice if we could all have a back up plan for when this happens again
yeah i thought the same. I am comfy here and dont want and cant be bothered to find anywhere else but if its going to keep going down and right now is it here we post or live cloud? And I cant get into live cloud....
I am very confused to tbh.
I like ths forum and i like the forum setup, but just wondered where else there was IF anyone was going anywhere, i know there was a few kicking around at the begining, wtd etc.
why can't you get into livecloud? if you are here, which you are, it means you are already registered at livecloud, don't try to get in by the link on the top right of this page, go to https://www.hoo.do.
I think Live Cloud was down completely yesterday evening. When I clicked on the link that I had bookmarked it even told me the site didn't exist
quote:Originally posted by Growlybear:But this forum is run from the USA, so surely with the 8 hour time difference, the maintenance WAS planned for a relatively quiet time - early Friday afternoon US time? Surely no-one expects people who run a website on another continent to plan their maintenance needs around a TV show in the UK?quote:Originally posted by DanceSettee:quote:Originally posted by Steven:
Hopefully next time we can give you all more advanced notice of an emergency system failure.
I'd prefer an explanation of why you choose to do maintenance at the busiest time to be honest.
I assume the system failure was related.
But if their busiest time is because most of their clients are UK-based then surely they should take that into account? The maintenance happening two hours later or on a Monday morning would have not caused anywhere near the disruption levels and antagonism that it caused.
The system failure in my opinion was almost certain to be caused by the maintenance and so saying that they couldn't predict the failure, whilst technically true, is still a little trite considering when they chose to perform the site maintenance.
Also, performing the site maintenance when the forum is at it's busiest is asking for problems as well. It would have benefitted them as much as us had they chosen a different time to do this.
I would like to add that I understand WHY you needed to perform the maintenance and I am grateful for the site and that it is a free resource BUT I do think that it could have been more thought-out because customers, as I am sure you understand, are what keeps these things going and that kind of thing is the kind of thing that puts customers off.
quote:Originally posted by Growlybear:
But this forum is run from the USA, so surely with the 8 hour time difference, the maintenance WAS planned for a relatively quiet time - early Friday afternoon US time? Surely no-one expects people who run a website on another continent to plan their maintenance needs around a TV show in the UK?
Well that depends on whether there are any American FMs using the site...haven't seen them yet so as far as i'm concerned they are just rumours at the moment
In fact I would like to know if we were here first, looking at the gagajoy twitter site last night it seemed to imply that we were....I'd be happy to be put right if this is not the case.
Whatever the case, it does seem that the needs of the UK BB viewers are not paramount in their planning schedules
and as we are the biggest UK viewing group here, I can assume that it might be that the UK members are less important altogether, or we are just handy to keep the site active until the important people arrive.Whatever, I think it's an almighty cock up...It's like joining an Usain Bolt appreciation site only to find out they schedule maintenance for the same time as the 100 metres final
The majority over there are Americans, not UK based.
And I got a nice pic of The robot from Lost in Space telling me they had problems.
And I got a nice pic of The robot from Lost in Space telling me they had problems.
Just checking I'm still a FM?
Well gutted that site was down on the eviction of the series!
What % did 'Bea'tch get? *prays it was more than Nicole last year*
Well gutted that site was down on the eviction of the series!
What % did 'Bea'tch get? *prays it was more than Nicole last year*
c'mon guys the place was down for about an hour or so,i know it was bea's eviction but we could chat about that when the site was back up.
the conspiracy theorists, make me smile though.
the conspiracy theorists, make me smile though.
quote:In fact I would like to know if we were here first, looking at the gagajoy twitter site last night it seemed to imply that we were....I'd be happy to be put right if this is not the case.
I don't think we are ........ but I'd love it if we were .... I'd love the format to stay exactly the same as it is now ..... but I was under the impression it would look like the Live Cloud forums, once we were there
Are we there yet ? ... anyone know for sure ?
we could still dial 999
From what I've seen, the mods here don't work 24 hours - presumably they work something like normal days. If they had carried out the maintenance a couple of hours later, wouldn't that have meant the mods working on a Friday evening? Monday morning maintenance would have meant them working during the night on Sunday. Would you do that for a group of strangers on the other side of the world? Particularly when Gaga have bent over backwards to provide a temporary home for us, and have had loads of grief from some people in return. I wonder whether the mods even realised that Friday afternoon their time would be Big Brother eviction time in the UK - I suspect they might have had other priorities.quote:Originally posted by littleleicesterfox:
But if their busiest time is because most of their clients are UK-based then surely they should take that into account? The maintenance happening two hours later or on a Monday morning would have not caused anywhere near the disruption levels and antagonism that it caused.
The system failure in my opinion was almost certain to be caused by the maintenance and so saying that they couldn't predict the failure, whilst technically true, is still a little trite considering when they chose to perform the site maintenance.
Also, performing the site maintenance when the forum is at it's busiest is asking for problems as well. It would have benefitted them as much as us had they chosen a different time to do this.
I would like to add that I understand WHY you needed to perform the maintenance and I am grateful for the site and that it is a free resource BUT I do think that it could have been more thought-out because customers, as I am sure you understand, are what keeps these things going and that kind of thing is the kind of thing that puts customers off.
Are we nearly there yet ?
starting to sound like kids on a car journey
quote:Originally posted by JacksonB:
c'mon guys the place was down for about an hour or so,i know it was bea's eviction but we could chat about that when the site was back up.
the conspiracy theorists, make me smile though.
It was much longer than an hour!! I stayed up till fairly late but couldn't stay up too late as got a young child getting up at sparrows fart so I haven't been able to discuss Bea's eviction yet and no doubt if I start a thread now about anything some wise arse will tell me its already been discussed like always...
that's how i see it too ,growly.
quote:Originally posted by Lazybug:quote:Originally posted by JacksonB:
c'mon guys the place was down for about an hour or so,i know it was bea's eviction but we could chat about that when the site was back up.
the conspiracy theorists, make me smile though.
It was much longer than an hour!! I stayed up till fairly late but couldn't stay up too late as got a young child getting up at sparrows fart so I haven't been able to discuss Bea's eviction yet and no doubt if I start a thread now about anything some wise arse will tell me its already been discussed like always...
you start it and i'll be your bouncer, no dissing the op...
quote:I haven't been able to discuss Bea's eviction yet and no doubt if I start a thread now about anything some wise arse will tell me its already been discussed like always...
It's a public forum
..... start what you like .... if others don't like your thread, they need not enter .... simple as, imo Lolquote:Originally posted by JacksonB:quote:Originally posted by Lazybug:quote:Originally posted by JacksonB:
c'mon guys the place was down for about an hour or so,i know it was bea's eviction but we could chat about that when the site was back up.
the conspiracy theorists, make me smile though.
It was much longer than an hour!! I stayed up till fairly late but couldn't stay up too late as got a young child getting up at sparrows fart so I haven't been able to discuss Bea's eviction yet and no doubt if I start a thread now about anything some wise arse will tell me its already been discussed like always...
you start it and i'll be your bouncer, no dissing the op...
Will you be wearing proper bouncers gear? 
yep and i'll get a clipboard, if yer name's not on the list, you ain't coming in,petal.
quote:Originally posted by Growlybear:From what I've seen, the mods here don't work 24 hours - presumably they work something like normal days. If they had carried out the maintenance a couple of hours later, wouldn't that have meant the mods working on a Friday evening? Monday morning maintenance would have meant them working during the night on Sunday. Would you do that for a group of strangers on the other side of the world? Particularly when Gaga have bent over backwards to provide a temporary home for us, and have had loads of grief from some people in return. I wonder whether the mods even realised that Friday afternoon their time would be Big Brother eviction time in the UK - I suspect they might have had other priorities.quote:Originally posted by littleleicesterfox:
But if their busiest time is because most of their clients are UK-based then surely they should take that into account? The maintenance happening two hours later or on a Monday morning would have not caused anywhere near the disruption levels and antagonism that it caused.
The system failure in my opinion was almost certain to be caused by the maintenance and so saying that they couldn't predict the failure, whilst technically true, is still a little trite considering when they chose to perform the site maintenance.
Also, performing the site maintenance when the forum is at it's busiest is asking for problems as well. It would have benefitted them as much as us had they chosen a different time to do this.
I would like to add that I understand WHY you needed to perform the maintenance and I am grateful for the site and that it is a free resource BUT I do think that it could have been more thought-out because customers, as I am sure you understand, are what keeps these things going and that kind of thing is the kind of thing that puts customers off.
I meant Monday morning their time
The point I was trying to make was that they could have chosen almost any other time in the week and the site would have been a lot quieter and it would have been better all round. But I do take the point about them having to work Friday evening if they took it down a couple of hours later.Firstly, I'd like to think that we're not strangers any more.
I have been involved in the running of a website with an international user base and we always tried to do what was right for everybody! I have absolutely no doubt that we would have taken this into consideration.
I don't think they have had nothing but grief in return and I'm a bit more cynical - they bent over backwards because there was, just sitting there to be plucked, a great big forum of regulars looking for a new home. How many of us are there? 200 - 300 - which is a busy forum by anyone's standards. It takes time and hard work to build a forum up normally but we just fell into their laps! We are not just strangers. We are customers - and when LiveCloud becomes our main home hopefully $39 paying customers.
The mods are not on here 24/7 but they are on here enough to understand the rhythms of the forum and I still maintain that they should have known what was approaching.
Now, if they come back to us and say that's the only slot that their server providers said they could have then that's fair enough and out of their control but otherwise I think we have a right to feel a little peeved.
But we all know that people will go into a thread sometimes just to be annoyong or negative (god I hate that N word now thanks to Beaquote:Originally posted by Poker Face:quote:I haven't been able to discuss Bea's eviction yet and no doubt if I start a thread now about anything some wise arse will tell me its already been discussed like always...
It's a public forum
) Thing is the eviction is so last night lol - I can't think what I want to discuss now
Oooooooohhhhhhhh goodyquote:Originally posted by JacksonB:
yep and i'll get a clipboard, if yer name's not on the list, you ain't coming in,petal.
I've not read the whole thread but there does appear to be quite a lot of negative comments. I think that is being very ungrateful to the people who took us in when Channel 4 just closed down their site and threw us out.
I, for one, am very grateful to still have somewhere to come and post. Okay it was annoying that it happened at the time it did but sometimes these things happen.
Just be grateful for what we've got!!
I, for one, am very grateful to still have somewhere to come and post. Okay it was annoying that it happened at the time it did but sometimes these things happen.
Just be grateful for what we've got!!
quote:But we all know that people will go into a thread sometimes just to be annoyong or negative
That's thier problem .... just ignore them .... why should a minority ruin your enjoyment ?
I'm sure we have an ignore function on here anyway (not that I've ever had to use it)
quote:I've not read the whole thread but there does appear to be quite a lot of negative comments. I think that is being very ungrateful to the people who took us in when Channel 4 just closed down their site and threw us out. Just be grateful for what we've got!!
I agree .... well said
for all of you talking of time zones, busiest time and all that stuff, THIS WAS NOT THE PLANNED MAINTAINANCE, the site crashed, that is all.
I`m as disappointed about last night as everybody else but because it was a system failure there`s not much more to say imo.
I read somewhere that we are moving over to Livecloud on 4th Spetember, the final night of BB, is this true?
If it is, I`m a bit concerned. I would rather spend the final night here, where we know the site, rather than struggling on a new site on the most important night of BB.
Does anyone know for sure?
I read somewhere that we are moving over to Livecloud on 4th Spetember, the final night of BB, is this true?
If it is, I`m a bit concerned. I would rather spend the final night here, where we know the site, rather than struggling on a new site on the most important night of BB.
Does anyone know for sure?
quote:Originally posted by ContessaQ:
for all of you talking of time zones, busiest time and all that stuff, THIS WAS NOT THE PLANNED MAINTAINANCE, the site crashed, that is all.
Aaah but that is an inconvenient truth cos that removes whinging rights.
My sigs gone!
quote:Originally posted by Scotty:
I`m as disappointed about last night as everybody else but because it was a system failure there`s not much more to say imo.
I read somewhere that we are moving over to Livecloud on 4th Spetember, the final night of BB, is this true?
If it is, I`m a bit concerned. I would rather spend the final night here, where we know the site, rather than struggling on a new site on the most important night of BB.
Does anyone know for sure?
I really hope not .......it would be nice to wind it all up on here ..............hey ho - beggars can't be choosers I suppose.
My fear is that we'll lose even more FM@s in the changeover ..............we are already depleted from the last move.