Now this is getting just f'ucking sillyFollow

It's probably worth mentioning that while we've had the worst useability problems we've had messages on every single page stating that we were in the middle of server maintenance.

We're transitioning servers right now. The entire site is running on a set of temporary servers while we pick up our existing servers and move them to a new ISP. Hopefully, in the end it will make the site a lot faster, but until is is done, there are bound to be some glitches.

You'll notice that [Danalog and] I have hardly posted in asylum for the last week.

If Kao's posting on the feedback forum, that rocks. I have no idea where that forum is.

Hard drive performance degredation for no apparent reason can blow me though.

Don't take our lack of communication for lack of caring.

I post things as I find them out myself. I'm always available by PM, and as always we try to keep official announcementd in the feedback forum so that we don't miss one in other forums and have people get mad at us when we forget to update it.

Danalog, nizdar, Illia, Rale have all been putting in very long hours on getting the new servers up and running. We're operating on all new servers, at a new ISP, and we are having growing pains. it is my understanding that the existing servers are yet to be integrated with the new ones, and I think, but am not 100% sure that they are still in transit. One of the other admins, feel free to correct that if I am missinformed. There have been issues with the new ISP that have been outside our control. Things like that are getting resolved, and I know you are all frustrated, but once things start getting back to normal everythign should improve substantially.

As to some of the other admins, Allakhazam, etc not posting in the forums as much, alot of that stems from the whole merger thing. There was alot of negativity directed at all the admins, especially Allakhazam over that. After the 6th or 7th time I myself got caught up in that mess I too was considering staying out of the forums. There was a hell of alot of sh*t flung from that.

At any rate, if there is anything specific you want to know, if i know the answer let me know and I'll try to fill you in.

That's crap.

Ok let me rephrase. If people were expecting an immediate response every time a complaint about the ongoing problems was posted then it would be right on. But since all people seem to be asking for here are periodic updates on a stickied/dedicated thread or location - your comment is complete *****************

It would be I suppose if you chose to just read that comment and not bother reading the rest. If you had, you would realize I agreed with the point that the admins should post an update. The point I was trying to make was what you described. Having worked in this field for quite a few years, I can tell you with a lot of experiences to back it, that stopping to explain the situation every time someone asks is counter-productive. Whether you chose to believe it or not is entirely up to you.

[quote]I just thought the IT pat "If I told you what was happening I couldn't fix it" statement was absurd. IT folks say this all the time, in the situation or in solidarity and often all it really means is "I don't know what the hell is going on, but I can't admit that." Or, more often, "I'm doing what I'm doing, and I don't really have to tell you shit so live with it until it works."

I suck!

If Kao's posting on the feedback forum, that rocks. I have no idea where that forum is

Imagine you working at your job, whatever you do, and while you are plugging along at whatever project you are diligently working you are interrupted every 3-5 minutes with people popping their head in the door or calling you on your phone asking you what the status is. And every time they did that you had to give them a few minutes to respond as to where you were at. Can you guess at how fast your project would get done?