They are hoping to have limited capacity on the site in a few hours. They have not slept very much and called Six Apart the minute everything went to hell. Plans for the holiday weekend for the Fitzpatricks went to hell and no one has had much rest. They are testing everything and all the rumors out there are just that - rumors. Mena and her crew were notified the minute it went down.
So the people calling up LJ's customer service threatening to slit their throats, saying Six Apart got punk'd, and everything else - can you be more emo? Come on now, if you need to journal that bad - head over to GJ just get your fix. Otherwise, give them time. This has only happened one time before and that was confirmed by Sandy when she called me back (I called asking for an interview and more information as I am doing a story on blogging and this outage for a site I write for.)
My god, you would think someone is killing kittens or something the way people are crying in chat rooms.
http://www.mandelion.com
From when the first article was posted, people started going insane. He knew this was going to happen. Support requests were opened and ignored. People of course start talking out their ass and rumors start flying, like here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/kyoto_falls/8464. html
Give me a break. Instead of making stupid memes and graphics (ok, my friend and I did to make fun of these people), why not ask Brad? He didn't address the issue until one of the servers was about to crash and even then - he didn't say anything:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_maintenanc e/99736.html?page=1#comments
So yeah, he's playing the hype game quite well. Look at the amount of posts, people backing up to the point servers are crashing, and non-stop posting about it. If these people could organize and riot, they would.
I posted, asking why no one was asking Brad out of all these people posting these cute little memes talking about saving their LJ's and am told Brad couldn't talk. About a press conference? He could confirm that and at least calm some of the masses down. He has 5 million journals and he's playing it up for all it's worth. I post saying this and people get pissed.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/agateway/140707.h tml
And now that I have said this - Brad made it official 4 minutes ago.
This is why I posted about it here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/agateway/140707.h tml?view=1761443
All Brad has to do is confirm or deny the fucking press conference to calm these excitable people down and he won't. Why? He's playing the hype game.
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They are hoping to have limited capacity on the site in a few hours. They have not slept very much and called Six Apart the minute everything went to hell. Plans for the holiday weekend for the Fitzpatricks went to hell and no one has had much rest. They are testing everything and all the rumors out there are just that - rumors. Mena and her crew were notified the minute it went down. So the people calling up LJ's customer service threatening to slit their throats, saying Six Apart got punk'd, and everything else - can you be more emo? Come on now, if you need to journal that bad - head over to GJ just get your fix. Otherwise, give them time. This has only happened one time before and that was confirmed by Sandy when she called me back (I called asking for an interview and more information as I am doing a story on blogging and this outage for a site I write for.) My god, you would think someone is killing kittens or something the way people are crying in chat rooms. http://www.mandelion.com
From when the first article was posted, people started going insane. He knew this was going to happen. Support requests were opened and ignored. People of course start talking out their ass and rumors start flying, like here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/kyoto_falls/8464. html
Give me a break. Instead of making stupid memes and graphics (ok, my friend and I did to make fun of these people), why not ask Brad? He didn't address the issue until one of the servers was about to crash and even then - he didn't say anything:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_maintenanc e/99736.html?page=1#comments
So yeah, he's playing the hype game quite well. Look at the amount of posts, people backing up to the point servers are crashing, and non-stop posting about it. If these people could organize and riot, they would.
I posted, asking why no one was asking Brad out of all these people posting these cute little memes talking about saving their LJ's and am told Brad couldn't talk. About a press conference? He could confirm that and at least calm some of the masses down. He has 5 million journals and he's playing it up for all it's worth. I post saying this and people get pissed.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/agateway/140707.h tml
And now that I have said this - Brad made it official 4 minutes ago.
This is why I posted about it here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/agateway/140707.h tml?view=1761443
All Brad has to do is confirm or deny the fucking press conference to calm these excitable people down and he won't. Why? He's playing the hype game.