Surely April is the cruelest of months… for the 3rd time in 21 days, the greatest and most intelligent Fan Forum in the NFL has had the plug pulled on their continuous live performance…
First it was the ignominious platform change at PE.com’s “On The Inside” which temporarily blacked out the Eagles’ best fan gallery on March 31…
Then, given shelter from the storm here at Eagles Eye, the “Bored” was momentarily off-line again as our own Bloguin Network switched gears to a new “livefyre” Comments module, causing a brief interruption of gallery greatness…
The final and most recent insult: very early Thursday morning, “livefyre” got hi-jacked along with a million other subscribers to Amazon’s massive worldwide Server product, as Amazon suffered a major crash…the result being, I can talk to you now, but you can’t talk back to me or each other—yet…
As an Eagles fan since childhood, I can handle this kind of adversity. I simply hope Amazon gets this figured out soon enough that we don’t lose any further touch with each other. Sure, I’m always hopeful Dave (“Spuds”) Spadaro will get his own Comments issues resolved soon enough that none of this will really matter. But as of today I have not seen significant progress in that direction. Yes, Dave has restored the old Eagles’ Message Boards to their former comfort zone, for which I applaud him. But what about “On The Inside”‘s fan forum’s need to return to the classic format?
Glitches like these tend to alienate the great posters. That is a fact of show biz life. “Staying up” online is the heartbeat of every quality poster’s life. Continuity is the key. The Eagles’ greatest fan posters in the NFL already have the talent…but they require a quality venue.
Through this latest trial, I’m learning more about worldwide Servers than I ever really wanted to know…
Some 12 hours after Amazon’s Server failure brought down large swathes of the social web, the company has still not fixed the problem.
The outage has brought down the social bookmarking website Reddit, the social location sharing website Foursquare, the social questions and answers website Quora, the Twitter newspaper website paper.li, the Twitter web client Hootsuite (as well as their ow.ly and ht.ly link services), the social commenting system LiveFyre and possibly the publishing industry’s Publishers Weekly website as well as many others.
According to Amazon’s service dashboard, the company is working into the night as we speak to resolve problems with its servers in Northern Virginia…which aparently fuel our “livefyre” comments board here…
The Twittersphere is having a lot of fun with the fact that this outage follows the script of “Judgement Day”, aka the day in the “Terminator” movie franchise when Skynet becomes self-aware and starts its attack on humanity.
And I’d be lying to you if I didn’t add— the PE.com loyalists are dancing a few celebratory jigs over at “On The Inside”‘s reconstituted gallery—such as it is.
So I wait, and I wonder. “Livefyre” wasn’t the perfect answer to the Comments dilemma…but it did have some things I liked, namely auto-log-in, auto-refresh, and no censorship.
I never asked for a Comments War anyway… just a Comments section that was built to showcase the talent of the great commenters. It’s an untimely hardship for them to have to endure another blackout…but that’s a part of war…and a part of life. We’ll get through this.
UPDATE: As of Friday morning, April 22, the “livefyre” Comments section is functional again… now we wait for the full restoration of all the extra bells and whistles, including the old posts and “points” from the past month… I’ll consult with the GK to determine if MACH 10 entries need to be resubmitted… And thanks for all the kind and supportive comments over at PE.com while the Amazon meltdown was raging.
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