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Originally posted by Scotty:
My sigs gone!

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Originally posted by Scotty:
My sigs gone!

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Originally posted by JacksonB:

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Originally posted by Scotty:
My sigs gone!

ppssst, those 'mericans stole it...

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Originally posted by Scotty:

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Originally posted by Scotty:
My sigs gone!

Iwv just done a Bea..me me me.

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:

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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.

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Originally posted by Soozy woo:

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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.

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Originally posted by Lazybug:

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Originally posted by Scotty:

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Originally posted by Scotty:
My sigs gone!

I`v just done a Bea..me me me.

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Originally posted by Scotty:

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Originally posted by Lazybug:

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Originally posted by Scotty:

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Originally posted by Scotty:
My sigs gone!

I`ve just done a Bea..me me me.

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Originally posted by Zaphod:
Scotty .. go check my wall on LC re your avatar


Z.

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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.

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Originally posted by Scotty:

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Originally posted by Zaphod:
Scotty .. go check my wall on LC re your avatar


Z.

Okay dokay Zaph..thanks x

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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?

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Originally posted by Poker Face:

It's a public forum ..... start what you like .... if others don't like your thread, they need not enter .... simple as, imo

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Originally posted by littleleicesterfox:

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Originally posted by Growlybear:

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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.

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.

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.

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Originally posted by Scotty:

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Originally posted by Soozy woo:

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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.

I`m sure there will be a few casualties.

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Originally posted by Shar:

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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.

That particular point just doesn't seem to be hitting home ....

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Originally posted by Shar:

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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.

That particular point just doesn't seem to be hitting home ....

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Originally posted by JacksonB:
some of us are just a big messy mass of reaction and knee jerks...

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Shar:

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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.

That particular point just doesn't seem to be hitting home ....

it's bloody pointless, some people only read the last page and some just post without reading anything

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Originally posted by Lazybug:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Shar:

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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.

That particular point just doesn't seem to be hitting home ....

it's bloody pointless, some people only read the last page and some just post without reading anything

I think you just have to let FM's have their moan - after all last night we were all wondering what was going on etc. Once all the moaning and finger pointing has settled down and people realise it wasn't anyone's fault and it was just one of those things everyone will just calm down and move onto the next topic to moan about...

Don't get het up about it as you are fighting a losing battle at the moment me thinks.

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Originally posted by queenshaks:
Whinge whinge moan moan.

Mod being sarcastic.

Welcome back to the forum...another regular day!

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Originally posted by Twee Surgeon:
Last night seemed weird without the forum when the eviction had happened. I felt something was missing. There was nowhere to discuss live feed and I wasn't prepared to wait up until the forum came back.

We have all become accustomed to the forum just being there for our use. When it is no longer available, it leaves a gap. It is when this happens that we are prompted to appreciate it more. When I came back online to discuss BB in early June, the forum I was used to was gone. It was only when I went onto DS that I found out about this place. It was like coming back to familiarity and sameness, the forum I knew and understood back in the day with familiar names and a posting style I liked within a forum. Had this forum not been created, a diaspora of the BBGF members would have taken place and we would have all been scattered throughout the Internet without a home.

It is for this reason that I thank the people of GaGa. Had it not been for them, then what happened last night when we were unable to post on our usual forum would have been a permanent feature in our Big Brother experience this year. It was a timely reminder that we should be grateful to them for giving us a home in the first place.

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Originally posted by Zaphod:
You can sign back in now Scotty

Look a lot better now


Z.

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Originally posted by tupps:
Just

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Originally posted by Lazybug:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Shar:

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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.

That particular point just doesn't seem to be hitting home ....

it's bloody pointless, some people only read the last page and some just post without reading anything

I think you just have to let FM's have their moan - after all last night we were all wondering what was going on etc. Once all the moaning and finger pointing has settled down and people realise it wasn't anyone's fault and it was just one of those things everyone will just calm down and move onto the next topic to moan about...

Don't get het up about it as you are fighting a losing battle at the moment me thinks.

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Originally posted by squiggle:

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Originally posted by Lazybug:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Shar:

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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.

That particular point just doesn't seem to be hitting home ....

it's bloody pointless, some people only read the last page and some just post without reading anything

I think you just have to let FM's have their moan - after all last night we were all wondering what was going on etc. Once all the moaning and finger pointing has settled down and people realise it wasn't anyone's fault and it was just one of those things everyone will just calm down and move onto the next topic to moan about...

Don't get het up about it as you are fighting a losing battle at the moment me thinks.

And also a lot of people are moaning about other people moaning! Which is quite funny when you think about it

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Originally posted by Sky:

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Originally posted by squiggle:

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Originally posted by Lazybug:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Shar:

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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.

That particular point just doesn't seem to be hitting home ....

it's bloody pointless, some people only read the last page and some just post without reading anything

I think you just have to let FM's have their moan - after all last night we were all wondering what was going on etc. Once all the moaning and finger pointing has settled down and people realise it wasn't anyone's fault and it was just one of those things everyone will just calm down and move onto the next topic to moan about...

Don't get het up about it as you are fighting a losing battle at the moment me thinks.

And also a lot of people are moaning about other people moaning! Which is quite funny when you think about it

Exactly Squiggs! They give ME a "headache" everytime i read them moaning and whinging about moaners and whingers...blimming moangers.

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Originally posted by squiggle:

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Originally posted by Sky:

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Originally posted by squiggle:

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Originally posted by Lazybug:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Shar:

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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.

That particular point just doesn't seem to be hitting home ....

it's bloody pointless, some people only read the last page and some just post without reading anything

I think you just have to let FM's have their moan - after all last night we were all wondering what was going on etc. Once all the moaning and finger pointing has settled down and people realise it wasn't anyone's fault and it was just one of those things everyone will just calm down and move onto the next topic to moan about...

Don't get het up about it as you are fighting a losing battle at the moment me thinks.

And also a lot of people are moaning about other people moaning! Which is quite funny when you think about it

Exactly Squiggs! They give ME a "headache" everytime i read them moaning and whinging about moaners and whingers...blimming moangers.

Now don't you run away if they come after US next!