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Post number 1324

milhous — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:56:31 -0800

What's going on at blogger today? The damn thing goes down more than anyone i've ever dated.

By: Cavatica

Cavatica — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:06:48 -0800

Good, I thought I was the only one. What's going on? I can see the crowds now pounding on their door like Zombies.

By: CrazyUncleJoe

CrazyUncleJoe — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:32:46 -0800

Braiiiiins! Braaaiiinns! Braaaaiiiiiiiiins!think of all the clever comments I would be making if Blogger weren't being difficult...

By: Cavatica

Cavatica — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:48:09 -0800

Send more Paramedics!! Send more Cops!! hahaha!

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:57:27 -0800

I thinks it's about time Matt put up a page dedicated to only Blogger complaints... META OF THE LIVING DEAD...

By: jkottke

jkottke — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:59:07 -0800

Do you think it would be a good idea not to post to MF every time a Web site is down?

By: CrazyUncleJoe

CrazyUncleJoe — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:07:42 -0800

Whoops. Were those *your* Post-Toasties, Jason? Sorry about that.

By: milhous

milhous — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:14:06 -0800

Obviously jason doesn't rely on blogger for his fine html needs.

By: evhead

evhead — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:25:13 -0800

Hi guys. Yes, Blogger is bad these days -- today, especially. We're not sure what's going on -- other than it's a victim of it's success and these are rather typical scalability problems that a lot of sites (esp. appplications) run into when their growth reaches a certain threshold. Not that that makes it all right! But I just want everyone to know, that we're very, VERY aware of the problems. We've spent a lot of money and even more time trying to solve them, and we're spending more until we get Blogger responding like a Ritz-Carlton bellhop (sorry -- I'm stretching for an analogy here). In a nutshell, the official story is: Sorry, we suck. But we're trying to suck less. We appreciate your patience. BTW, MetaFilter is being served from Pyra now -- so we don't *totally* suck -- maybe we should have Matt stop designing and start recoding Blogger! (Just kidding, Matt. ;)

By: CrazyUncleJoe

CrazyUncleJoe — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:33:51 -0800

FWIW, we worry because we care, ev. ;^) It's all about the blogger love.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:28:31 -0800

Putting six coders on that server really killed it, huh? :)

By: milhous

milhous — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:03:48 -0800

I never meant for my initial post on this matter to be of a pessimistic nature...i was kinda just pokin' the boys in the ribs a bit. It's a great thing to have, and it's free, so it's hard to complain too much.

By: treebjen

treebjen — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:04:05 -0800

I wonder why Blogger is so silly ...

By: megnut

megnut — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:36:34 -0800

Ahem...and *girl* don't forget. Poke the boys and the girl in the ribs a bit.

By: owen

owen — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:40:28 -0800

Mmmm... girl ribs.

By: milhous

milhous — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:42:27 -0800

Now that blogger appears to be back, my website's server is down. I think i should just give up for the day. Yes yes.....girl ribs.

By: CrazyUncleJoe

CrazyUncleJoe — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:17:28 -0800

Oh great. Just as I'm getting over Neale's evhead banner I'm stuck with an image of Meg covered in BBQ sauce. Damn you Pyrates! Damn you all to Hell!!!

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:37:24 -0800

I'm sorry. It's all my fault. Obviously, attempting to publish the extreme level of blathering drivel in my new meta-blog has fried the server's synapses. Just look at the notices blog on the front page: Ev's apology is timestamped April 13th at 11:30PM, and I first saw it around Noon (unless of course, Pyra has secretly packed up and moved to somewhere in Asia!)

By: Neale

Neale — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:37:51 -0800

The Pyra Crew actually work in my car hole now. You know, it really sucks having to do things like fetch them drinks and sandwiches. Funnily enough though, mark has asked to move in...

By: plinth

plinth — Fri, 14 Apr 2000 05:54:00 -0800

I feel compelled to point out that, given enough time, CUJoe imagines everything covered in BBQ Sauce.