There are new developments.  It's almost laughable.

The banner and ads showed up on the main page with this at the bottom but nothing else on that page:

Incorrect information in file: './mm/threads.frm'

Hell, I'm not approved yet and need to post 4 pictures to have the GKs look me over 

wtf

TXPhotog wrote:

Let's be fair.  The only reason the other site is having problems - they have already told us this - is because they implemented a new 18+POTD Contest and it crashed the site.  Evidently this latest problem results from issues involved in pulling the Contest back down.  And all future problems will also be related to that Contest.

It's really handy when what you want to do can be made to look like a necessity "for the greater good".

Had to read this thrice to get the full effect of the sarcasm. Hey admin is there a sarcasm smiley for us to use? 

Serious question Is there a way to turn off the "someone else posted you may want to edit your post" and just let me post my pontifications without editing or hitting submit again?

txphotog wrote:

Let's be fair.  The only reason the other site is having problems - they have already told us this - is because they implemented a new 18+POTD Contest and it crashed the site.  Evidently this latest problem results from issues involved in pulling the Contest back down.  And all future problems will also be related to that Contest.

It's really handy when what you want to do can be made to look like a necessity "for the greater good".

Hey Roger, I wasn't aware that the new contest was what crashed the site.  It was speculated, but I never saw it confirmed.

Did Brian or IB admit to the launch being the reason for the down time?

Hmm, that's interesting, because on one thread they claimed that their facility was undergoing issues because of a power outage...lol.

SLE Photography wrote:

mwano84gem wrote:

Hmm, that's interesting, because on one thread they claimed that their facility was undergoing issues because of a power outage...lol.

What they actually said was that their offices had no power so they had no way to access their servers to fix the corruption.
Still, tho...

Uh, yeah. They are in LA...they should damn well have a disaster plan in case of fire, flood, earthquake, state running out of money, whatever.

A power outage is easy- contract with a hotel or data center for a room with a T3 and buy some laptops. I've been part of disaster planning and this is a standard thing to implement. Hell, even someone's living room with a cable modem would work as a stop-gap.

SLE Photography wrote:

lamiller wrote:

Hey Roger, I wasn't aware that the new contest was what crashed the site.  It was speculated, but I never saw it confirmed.

Did Brian or IB admit to the launch being the reason for the down time?

I received a PM from the new IB admins stating that the contest was responsible for the site crash and so they were suspending the contest indefinitely.  They failed to mention that they pushed new advertisement codes at the SAME time.

Sounds like an excuse to me.

More adds, less naked, more money.

SLE Photography wrote:

lamiller wrote:

Hey Roger, I wasn't aware that the new contest was what crashed the site.  It was speculated, but I never saw it confirmed.

Did Brian or IB admit to the launch being the reason for the down time?

I received a PM from the new IB admins stating that the contest was responsible for the site crash and so they were suspending the contest indefinitely.  They failed to mention that they pushed new advertisement codes at the SAME time.

Hm?

How would the 18+ contest pull the site down but not the normal contest?

txphotog wrote:

Let's be fair.  The only reason the other site is having problems - they have already told us this - is because they implemented a new 18+POTD Contest and it crashed the site.  Evidently this latest problem results from issues involved in pulling the Contest back down.  And all future problems will also be related to that Contest.

It's really handy when what you want to do can be made to look like a necessity "for the greater good".

It's gods way of punishing those that show their bewbies. Everyone knows that bewbies will always crash websites. That's why there's no porn on the internet!

I have been getting that message all night over at MM. I am really going to miss that

Yes, with no DB errors, I'm free to browse the 24 members without interruption! Can't I have my cake and eat it too?

Sassy Bunch over here

But seriously

Who got high score at Curveball?