Discogs down since yesterday
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Maybe Teo has finally pulled the plug, it used to kick off regularly on the forums and he threatened to shut it down
I thought it had been sorted tho and the nobs had been banned
I thought it had been sorted tho and the nobs had been banned
It may not be the case, it could just be a server problem
Its been a while since it was threatened with closure, and I havent seen owt since a few lunatics got kicked off
Bunkerheadz might now
Its been a while since it was threatened with closure, and I havent seen owt since a few lunatics got kicked off
Bunkerheadz might now
skippy said:hooray!
it's back online...
Ooow ya buggar, i was just about to tell everyone meself!!
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yep I briefly got on late last night and saw a message from Nik (one of the admin) that said they were having major problems with the servers and would people refrain from refreshing slow loading pages.
But I haven't been able to get on at all today...
I'm not sure if Teo runs his own servers or uses a hosting company, either way I hope it's not serious; he sounds well clued up on the tech side so I would hope he's got the whole database backed up three times over!
But I haven't been able to get on at all today...
I'm not sure if Teo runs his own servers or uses a hosting company, either way I hope it's not serious; he sounds well clued up on the tech side so I would hope he's got the whole database backed up three times over!
heres copy/paste from
http://help.discogs.com/wiki/
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SERVERS DOWN
Dear Discogs User,
As you will have noticed, Discogs has been offline now since yesterday. We experienced a cascade of problems with the servers yesterday that ended with the whole site inaccessible to everyone including the system admin's. Since then, we have been working hard on a solution to getting us up and running again. Thankfully, this server that hosts the help.discogs.com site has been revived, and this may allow us to get the whole site running again. However, this is an extremely technical job, and may take some time to complete.
As sod's law dictates, we have four brand new servers already ordered and will be installing them by the middle of July. These should ensure we don't experience an outage such as this again.
We apologize, and ask you all the be patent while we try and figure out a solution. In the meantime, if you need to contact me or another Discogs user with an urgent matter, please use the form below, and I will try and help.
Yours Sincerely
Nik | Discogs Community Manager
p.s. may I suggest that now is a good time to pick thru the help section here, and maybe add some style descriptions or (for the mod's and editors) see if anything in the guidelines could be better written or need added to. Cheers!
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http://help.discogs.com/wiki/
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SERVERS DOWN
Dear Discogs User,
As you will have noticed, Discogs has been offline now since yesterday. We experienced a cascade of problems with the servers yesterday that ended with the whole site inaccessible to everyone including the system admin's. Since then, we have been working hard on a solution to getting us up and running again. Thankfully, this server that hosts the help.discogs.com site has been revived, and this may allow us to get the whole site running again. However, this is an extremely technical job, and may take some time to complete.
As sod's law dictates, we have four brand new servers already ordered and will be installing them by the middle of July. These should ensure we don't experience an outage such as this again.
We apologize, and ask you all the be patent while we try and figure out a solution. In the meantime, if you need to contact me or another Discogs user with an urgent matter, please use the form below, and I will try and help.
Yours Sincerely
Nik | Discogs Community Manager
p.s. may I suggest that now is a good time to pick thru the help section here, and maybe add some style descriptions or (for the mod's and editors) see if anything in the guidelines could be better written or need added to. Cheers!
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As far as i'm concerned, discogs is the most important electronic site on t'internet. As a source of electronic music information, it is second to none.
That said, my enthusiasm has diminished significantly over the last few months, and I blame it 100% on the time it takes for me to get any form of response with my submissions.
I've spent a lot of time submitting tunes to the site. Current figure is over 500, which is a fair few. You would think that might get you a little bit of leeway, however, I have found that the more I submit, the less responsive people seem to get to me. I would have given up several months ago had it not been my desire to be able to download the collection whilst out hunting for tunes. I have got the majority of the collection sorted and can't really be bothered doing much more
I think the moderating has got worse/slowed down considerably so I am much less enthusiatic about submitting tunes that take 2 months to get in to the database. That might be due to the fact that there are more and more people submitting, however, I have got very dis-illusioned with the whole thing. I have submitted more tunage than loads of moderators and I am beginning to think it is less driven by a desire to get the information into the database and more to do with conforming to particular formats.
It's all about priorities, and this is what makes me a bit sad: I think the priorities have chagned a little over the last year or so. It has edged more towards being exclusive rather than inclusive in nature.
Regardless of the rant, I do appreciate that it is probably a thankless task trying to validate the information from a moderators point of view, so am still more than happy with the site. It's still the best electronic music resource on t'internet
That said, my enthusiasm has diminished significantly over the last few months, and I blame it 100% on the time it takes for me to get any form of response with my submissions.
I've spent a lot of time submitting tunes to the site. Current figure is over 500, which is a fair few. You would think that might get you a little bit of leeway, however, I have found that the more I submit, the less responsive people seem to get to me. I would have given up several months ago had it not been my desire to be able to download the collection whilst out hunting for tunes. I have got the majority of the collection sorted and can't really be bothered doing much more
I think the moderating has got worse/slowed down considerably so I am much less enthusiatic about submitting tunes that take 2 months to get in to the database. That might be due to the fact that there are more and more people submitting, however, I have got very dis-illusioned with the whole thing. I have submitted more tunage than loads of moderators and I am beginning to think it is less driven by a desire to get the information into the database and more to do with conforming to particular formats.
It's all about priorities, and this is what makes me a bit sad: I think the priorities have chagned a little over the last year or so. It has edged more towards being exclusive rather than inclusive in nature.
Regardless of the rant, I do appreciate that it is probably a thankless task trying to validate the information from a moderators point of view, so am still more than happy with the site. It's still the best electronic music resource on t'internet
LOL!
Never read this part a lot but I saw DISCOGS DOWN and wanted to reply but Pinky beat me
Indeed major server probs, hope they'll sort it out quickly as I don't like the feeling of being an addict who can't score
Anyway to the lads complaining above about their pendings taking so long: DROP ME AN EMAIL AND I'LL GET YA PENDINGS MOVING!
ps - include ya USERname in that email since some of you use other names on OGGS
Never read this part a lot but I saw DISCOGS DOWN and wanted to reply but Pinky beat me
Indeed major server probs, hope they'll sort it out quickly as I don't like the feeling of being an addict who can't score
Anyway to the lads complaining above about their pendings taking so long: DROP ME AN EMAIL AND I'LL GET YA PENDINGS MOVING!
ps - include ya USERname in that email since some of you use other names on OGGS
Well it's back on now, but going incredibly slow - like being back on 56k Also none of the images for the tunes are loading. It'd be a shame if they've been lost.
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Hi all,
It appears to be down again and it's been over 24hrs. I've no idea what has caused it this time and can only hope it's because they are installing the new servers they were talking about getting and not something more serious.
ahthankyew.
pinky
It appears to be down again and it's been over 24hrs. I've no idea what has caused it this time and can only hope it's because they are installing the new servers they were talking about getting and not something more serious.
ahthankyew.
pinky
