The official site being down

[gemma]

Its irritating me to no end.

Even if there isn't a new video when I click on the site its still fun to check, now I feel like furiously refreshing until the site is back up.

Perhaps this has something to do with my boyfriend leaving to go home and me being bored and at a loose end at 1.30am but I am obsessively refreshing at this stage and it sucks.

[gemma]

This is all true.

I was thinking more of my own personal boredom/procrastination of physics writeup but those are really good points.

Although maybe the server is out of their hands, if they are relying on the new host company to get it up and running.

[trash180]

Yeah...it really should been seemless, unless they're trying to drive the audience in some way. I don't get it. Is this going to be a grand reveal of some sort. Is this for anticipation? Phorum's down too. Nothing, but a letter to lgpedia people to get to work on a "story so far" section...to be finished by tomorrow (11/20).

So they're trying to be ready for the impending rush by doing these upgrades and handing out homework, but the site is down and so is the phorum...

[gemma]

If the site looks exactly the same when its back up everyone is going to be ever so slightly deflated.

[curiousgeorge]

Business as usual, and yet they keep their popularity. One has to wonder how easy this will be for a "Big Media' company when they get a project up and running. Can you imagine what Joss Whedon could do with this medium!!!

[milowent]

the official site is at least partially back up -click the "here" link that appears , am checking out now to see if anything is new. there is some new registration thing on the main video page.

EDIT link i followed: www.lonelygirl15.com/?p=111&play=1
Gemma (see post below) can get in yet - i bet there are still some bugs being worked out.

- the "member directory" tab now links to a list of registrants. this is a relatively small list (i just registered as #57). each registrant can make a profile page.

- explanatory post by jsmith at the phorum (none of these upgrades seem very radical to me):

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jsmith
Lead Programmer

Joined: 06 Nov 2006
Posts: 12

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:33 am Post subject: Server Move Complete & New Features --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We have successfully moved over all the data to a new, better server and released a bunch of new features! Over the next few hours, DNS "bumps" may occur causing you to temporairly lose access to the site. These should simmer down and disappear within the next 4 hours.

New Features:

User profiles!
Upload a photo of yourself, tell us about yourself, and if you give us your revver username, your videos will be available on your profile!

E-mail notifications!
By subscribing, you will receive a notification everytime a new video is released! Never be late to a video again!

Comment authentication!
Never get your identity stolen again! From now on, you will have to be registered and logged in to post a comment to a video.

Private messaging!
You will be able to send private messages to people on the site by going to your profile, or even by just clicking on "Send Note" next to a person's comment! This allows you to easily and privately reply to text comments

Auto-Linking!
Links given in comments will be turned into HTML links automatically


Thank you all for your support and please don't hesitate to reply with your thoughts and comments on the new site.

[gemma]

i don't see a 'here' link!

edit: thanks milowent.

its getting so frustrating trying to get in, seems like all those 'bumps' are on my road!

i'll try again in an hour or so.

[Terryfic]

I really hope those emails are something that you have to opt in for, cause otherwise I am so not signing up.

I also don't really understand why you have to sign up again, are they not using the forum accounts? Or will you have to sign in to leave a comment and then sign in again to talk on the forum? And if that is the case I assume these new private messages aren't linked with the forum private messages and that just seems confusing. Since the site isn't working for me right this moment I guess I shall just have to wait and see the logistics of these upgrades.

[hyemew]

Wow do you realize that in that list of new upgrades, the Cove already has just about every single one of those things? Was that really worth over a day of downtime? jsmith is evil.

[milowent]

terryfic said:

I also don't really understand why you have to sign up again, are they not using the forum accounts? Or will you have to sign in to leave a comment and then sign in again to talk on the forum? And if that is the case I assume these new private messages aren't linked with the forum private messages and that just seems confusing.

this all appears to be the case. the phorum memberlist is huge compared to this new registrant link, i can't see how they are linked because there are different methods of accessings pms.

EDIT: and the email notification for new vids appears to be an opt in feature.

[jayhenry]

They appear to be completely unlinked. It's kinda amazing. In order to fully participate you're supposed to have an LGPedia account, a phorum account, a Lonelygirl15.com account and a revver.com account -- at minimum.

What a tedious burden to put on their fans. I'm trying to think if I even know of another site that requires four passwords to participate.

[gemma]

Is anyone else just getting the message about switching servers that was there yesterday?

[twinklyci]

gemma said:

Is anyone else just getting the message about switching servers that was there yesterday?

just a lurker here, but yes, I see the same message