Post by milowent on Nov 28, 2006 22:11:47 GMT -5
SO, you knew it was doomed from the start didn't you? Here's the basic facts:
EDIT 10:28pm EST:
In Bree's last video, posted 2am PST time Monday, she said she would be chatting at 6pm pacific "tomorrow" in the lonelygirl15 chatroom about what she should do. The phorum admins clarified this meant Tuesday at 6pm PST, and that they hoped to have a new chat interface up by then. OK, say it with me: Disaster foreshadowing!!!
5pm PST Tuesday. No new chat interface is up. The official phorum userplane chat is filling with people. 50+ and counting already, 60, 70, 80 . . . . The admins are posting that the new link for the chat will be posted, and that the chat WILL NOT be on userplane, but in the new chatroom.
5.45 PST. it becomes clear to all that the new chat interface is not coming (like you couldn't have guessed this already)! The main chat room "Bree's House" has already exceeded 100 users, the claimed limit.
The other phorum chat rooms (normally Lobby and OpAphid) are renamed Bree's House 2, 3. A 4, 5, and 6 are created (though 5 and 6 later disappear). People are shunted from one to another without rhyme or reason, people are frantically asking where Bree will be. Random posts are flying around. "Aaron Spelling: My thingy hurts!" Casual fans are posting stuff like "Who is Jonas?"
SO, iT turns out she will be in room 3. So we are told at about 5:58 PST. In whatever room i stumbled into, which was not Room 3. Interestingly, nikkibowerreport leaves room 1 and shows up in room 3 before anyone know where Bree will show up.
Room 3 is filled with over 100 people (somehow) and keeps rising during the chat. There must be a backdoor - because it gets up to 320 users in there before the hour is over.
320 users who don't have to keep quiet. Picture a middle school auditorium filled with sugar-addled teens. Anybody can post in the room, and they do. It is madness (so I am told). Admins try to relay some of bree, gemmas, and jonas posts to the other rooms.
Daniel apparently doesn't show up at all because he though it was stupid? So said Bree. (And you question our love for daniel, Creators?)
Apparently Bree hems and haws about what to do. Jonas offers for Bree to come stay with him, or he can send her money. Jonas says he cannot be a cop, because, well, he's a skateboarder. Ah, instant cred! Posts from random people fly so far on your screen no one can really tell what is happening.
Then Bree leaves. BYEE!!
EDIT 2: 10:34PM: This fiasco could have been predicted. Oh yeah, i did predict it!! The amount of traffic should have been expected. I bet over a 1,000 would have attended the chat if usable access was afforded. Everyone should have been silenced, except for bree, daniel, and gemma, and a few here and there through admin control to allow for some interaction.
Look for a transcript to show up here (not currently very readable, but its appearing already):
www.lonelygirl15.com/lgpedia/index.php?title=Bree%27s_November_28_chat
EDIT 3 (11:32pm EST):
TWJaniak has posted the ultimate spin at the phorum. You gotta hand it to TW, he should be a political speechwriter:
www.lonelygirl15.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=83461#83461
10:30pm (EST):
Um, chatrooms are not a brand new form of entertainment. I mean, Al Gore invented them looong ago!
EDIT 10:28pm EST:
In Bree's last video, posted 2am PST time Monday, she said she would be chatting at 6pm pacific "tomorrow" in the lonelygirl15 chatroom about what she should do. The phorum admins clarified this meant Tuesday at 6pm PST, and that they hoped to have a new chat interface up by then. OK, say it with me: Disaster foreshadowing!!!
5pm PST Tuesday. No new chat interface is up. The official phorum userplane chat is filling with people. 50+ and counting already, 60, 70, 80 . . . . The admins are posting that the new link for the chat will be posted, and that the chat WILL NOT be on userplane, but in the new chatroom.
5.45 PST. it becomes clear to all that the new chat interface is not coming (like you couldn't have guessed this already)! The main chat room "Bree's House" has already exceeded 100 users, the claimed limit.
The other phorum chat rooms (normally Lobby and OpAphid) are renamed Bree's House 2, 3. A 4, 5, and 6 are created (though 5 and 6 later disappear). People are shunted from one to another without rhyme or reason, people are frantically asking where Bree will be. Random posts are flying around. "Aaron Spelling: My thingy hurts!" Casual fans are posting stuff like "Who is Jonas?"
SO, iT turns out she will be in room 3. So we are told at about 5:58 PST. In whatever room i stumbled into, which was not Room 3. Interestingly, nikkibowerreport leaves room 1 and shows up in room 3 before anyone know where Bree will show up.
Room 3 is filled with over 100 people (somehow) and keeps rising during the chat. There must be a backdoor - because it gets up to 320 users in there before the hour is over.
320 users who don't have to keep quiet. Picture a middle school auditorium filled with sugar-addled teens. Anybody can post in the room, and they do. It is madness (so I am told). Admins try to relay some of bree, gemmas, and jonas posts to the other rooms.
Daniel apparently doesn't show up at all because he though it was stupid? So said Bree. (And you question our love for daniel, Creators?)
Apparently Bree hems and haws about what to do. Jonas offers for Bree to come stay with him, or he can send her money. Jonas says he cannot be a cop, because, well, he's a skateboarder. Ah, instant cred! Posts from random people fly so far on your screen no one can really tell what is happening.
Then Bree leaves. BYEE!!
EDIT 2: 10:34PM: This fiasco could have been predicted. Oh yeah, i did predict it!! The amount of traffic should have been expected. I bet over a 1,000 would have attended the chat if usable access was afforded. Everyone should have been silenced, except for bree, daniel, and gemma, and a few here and there through admin control to allow for some interaction.
Look for a transcript to show up here (not currently very readable, but its appearing already):
www.lonelygirl15.com/lgpedia/index.php?title=Bree%27s_November_28_chat
EDIT 3 (11:32pm EST):
TWJaniak has posted the ultimate spin at the phorum. You gotta hand it to TW, he should be a political speechwriter:
www.lonelygirl15.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=83461#83461
10:30pm (EST):
The production team of lonelygirl15 is overwhelmed and excited by the turnout for the first ever LG15 live web chat. Tonight hundreds of you became part of a completely new form of entertainment, yet thousands of you could not participate.
We are beta testing a NEW entertainment experience and a NEW way of telling a story, and unfortunately we underestimated the volume of viewers who wanted to participate. Over 350,000 of you visited our site during the chat. Though we had a solution in place for handling a large number of participants, last minute technical difficulties forced us to resort to less than optimal methods. In the future (and their will be future chats) we will be ready for the load, and the conversations will be easier to follow.
Thank you for your support while we work out the kinks.
With greatest appreciation,
The Lonelygirl15 Production Team
We are beta testing a NEW entertainment experience and a NEW way of telling a story, and unfortunately we underestimated the volume of viewers who wanted to participate. Over 350,000 of you visited our site during the chat. Though we had a solution in place for handling a large number of participants, last minute technical difficulties forced us to resort to less than optimal methods. In the future (and their will be future chats) we will be ready for the load, and the conversations will be easier to follow.
Thank you for your support while we work out the kinks.
With greatest appreciation,
The Lonelygirl15 Production Team
Um, chatrooms are not a brand new form of entertainment. I mean, Al Gore invented them looong ago!