sites down? stardust, crystalhall, fictioneer, etc.

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Anyone have an idea why several sites seem down? stardust, crystalhall, fictioneer, etc. I know crystalhall was working last night.

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Working on it

erin's picture

The server seems to be hung, we're checking to see why.

- Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Yeah, early this evening I

Brooke Erickson's picture

Yeah, early this evening I quit getting a timeout error. Now I just get a blank page.

Brooke brooke at shadowgard dot com
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Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
"Lola", the Kinks

Oh, the forums!

I've checked the Crystal Hall dot org site/page several times. Pulled up a story at random and skimmed the details, no problem. But I finally realized you were talking about the forum/chat areas. Personally I never think about those due to the extremely high noise to signal ratio. Last time I tried to report a problem there with a bad storylink, Warren went all ballistic and chewed out me and another person who'd been trying to report the same problem. Turns out he never even bothered to check to see if our reports might be valid. He was the almighty site master and he knew we were wrong, wasn't any reason to check.

When he finally found out for himself that there WAS a problem, he fixed it and then bragged to all how he'd find the problem and fixed it, but never offered any apology to the two of us. So I don't go there and don't much care if it ever gets fixed. I just read the stories.

So you might want to make sure the trouble shooters understand what you actually mean when you say the Crystal Hall is down, as IT isn't.


"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

Well, I look at Fanfiction,

Brooke Erickson's picture

Well, I look at Fanfiction, fanfiction discussion, and author's corner (just for one story) and ignore the rest.

Since I *write* fanfic (and beta for one of the other fanfic authors) those being down is rather important.

I only check the main page twice a week to see if there are any new canon stories.

Brooke brooke at shadowgard dot com
http://brooke.shadowgard.com/
Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
"Lola", the Kinks

Oh, btw, without the forums

Brooke Erickson's picture

Oh, btw, without the forums (or chat, which is also down) how exactly *am* I supposed to inform the maintainers of anything?

There's no email contact link on the main page.

Brooke brooke at shadowgard dot com
http://brooke.shadowgard.com/
Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
"Lola", the Kinks

Crystal Hall forums should be back up now

erin's picture

And the chat is down because the link on the site is obsolete, it's still pointing at one of Bob's servers. Piper has sent the information to change the link to Diane.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.