TP migrated servers
By on Jun 10th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
TP migrated servers
and we’re still experiencing a few technical issues, including delays in comments showing up. We hope to have everything fixed shortly. Thanks for your patience.
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June 10th, 2007 at 5:51 pmHow can we be paying so much attention to Paris Hilton when there are so many other more important issues of national import, such as how The Sopranos will end tonight?
Priorities, people, priorities.
June 10th, 2007 at 5:54 pmYes the posting has been acting strange the past few days.
June 10th, 2007 at 5:54 pmYou’re assuming I’ve been patient. :P
June 10th, 2007 at 6:04 pmYou’re assuming I’ve been patient. :P
Comment by Zooey
Naw, they’re being polite. Anyone who can read knows better.
June 10th, 2007 at 6:07 pmStill can’t paste others’ comments, highlight them, and use the bold, italic, etc. buttons.
Anyone know if this problem is being addressed?
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June 10th, 2007 at 6:22 pmI still can’t get any of my buttons to work either but that’s been going on for weeks now. Neither can I cut and past other’s comments….hopefully this is being addressed because I do believe that TP is one of the best liberal blogs around and I’d hate to have these problems continue and have the participation level drop off as it has done on some of the others.
June 10th, 2007 at 6:26 pmand I thought it was me
June 10th, 2007 at 6:28 pmComment by Tobey Tall — June 10, 2007 @ 6:22 pm
Your name is TOBY!
June 10th, 2007 at 6:28 pmComment by Mr. President — Don’t start humping Tobey’s leg now.
June 10th, 2007 at 6:31 pmhuh… i haven’t had any trouble using the buttons,
or copy/pasting…
the waits have been inconsistant – usually a minute of so,
but a few times immediately… THATs the oddity…
i did have to fill in the name/email info this morning
June 10th, 2007 at 6:31 pmbefore posting…
#1
I agree but you forgot one:
“I don’t recall”
June 10th, 2007 at 6:34 pmAdmin: I see that you issued a “TP migrated servers and we’re still experiencing a few technical issues, including delays in comments showing up. We hope to have everything fixed shortly. Thanks for your patience. 5:39 pm” Yah. Bullshiit. So the comments that I posted three days ago, they’re going to be posted when? How about before the server migration started? When will those comments be posted? Stop censoring TP!
June 10th, 2007 at 6:40 pmI just wish the Repuke trolls would migrate away from here.
June 10th, 2007 at 6:43 pmComment by Tom3 — They get paid to troll. Thier objective is to disrupt the thread, insert chaos, and deflect as many people as possible from using the thread as a viable source for the exchange of information, then leave. Just ignore them. The upside of trollism is, in this case, progressives get to vent their anger towards this virtual enemy. Rather theraputic on some level I suppose.
June 10th, 2007 at 6:57 pmI’m confident that Thinkprogress.org will have the technical expertise to conform its systems to growing commentary traffic.
June 10th, 2007 at 7:14 pmJTitor ~
June 10th, 2007 at 7:25 pmSeconded, in the affirmative.
I try to never respond to them, except to dis them in general.
Occasionally, in a weak moment, I’ll taunt Daryll.
Their formatting keys haven’t worked for MONTHS now!
They promised to take care of the troll issue – at least 6 MONTHS ago!
I emailed them about the problem I encountered today, very nicely, and you know what: ZERO response.
They don’t care about us. They don’t.
We are the community. WE care about others.
I am so sick of their “Holier than Thou” response to us.
One thing that I’m going to bring up – and it’s petty, I know, but encompasses TP’s thinking – is the Libby sentencing thread a couple of days ago. I did an OT on the Think Fast thread that live blogging of the Libby sentencing was on FDL – since it was not deemed important enough to be included on the Think Fast thread.
When they finally mentioned something, I had the first comment and AGAIN stated you could go to FDL for live blogging.
Then they issue an “Update” – Live Blogging, blah blah.
No HT. Because they don’t like me. I kept my mouth shut because I knew this was them, but their half-assed “Sorry” compelled me to give another example of their contemptness.
They do not care about us.
These people are tools. I get much more info from other sites. I really only come here for my friendships.
So, deal with that, TP.
Actually DO something, instead of your empty promises. For Once.
June 10th, 2007 at 7:35 pmOh, and BTW: Some who have a bad experience simply do not return. It’s the ones who care enough to complain that you should try to keep. (A business principle)
US Arming Sunnis
June 10th, 2007 at 7:43 pmI smell troll poop
June 10th, 2007 at 7:52 pmtru ~
June 10th, 2007 at 8:01 pmHow ya doin?
This was reported in the WaPo a couple of days ago.
The troops have zero confidence that this alliance with Sunni militia will gain much, and the article mentioned the Islamic Army had already worked out a truce with al Qaeda.
The next day, a tank patrol was supposed to hook up with the militia to do a raid, and yup, no militia.
One sergeant said he had zero trust that these militias wouldn’t turn on the Americans in a heartbeat.
Just another dead end failed “strategy” (if you could even call it that).
For some reason, the new servers (?) are delivering text that shows up in Firefox as HUGE, while other web pages are fine. In IE7, everything is fine.
And no problems with buttons here, ever, and certainly not now, in either browser. This is in XP.
June 10th, 2007 at 8:10 pmOf course I can’t see any responses because TP hasn’t fixed squat, so I’m posting this to have an update.
June 10th, 2007 at 8:20 pmSorry everyone. Blame them.
Thanks, RUCerious.
I could only see your response after posting some crappola.
This sucks.
They’ve had all weekend to fix this problem.
Grrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!
PS – how are you?
(Not that I’ll be able to read it here! Maybe a quick email? )
;)
June 10th, 2007 at 8:23 pmgummitch,
June 10th, 2007 at 8:24 pmI also have windows XP.
Nothing has worked for months.
Emailed them about 10 times.
Never a response.
And no problems with buttons here, ever, and certainly not now, in either browser. This is in XP.
Comment by gummitch
I use Firefox and have XP, no problems with the buttons, ever, and no problems with text size. Just can’t see comments for hours at a time. Make a comment, clean the house, make a comment, watch a movie. :)
June 10th, 2007 at 8:34 pmNever a response.
Comment by trueblue
Responses would be nice. I get a response every now and then, but usually when I really don’t feel like a need one. Email Faiz directly, I’ve always gotten responses from him.
June 10th, 2007 at 8:36 pmWow. Both of my previous comments showed up immediately.
*sniff*
Just like the goold old days….
June 10th, 2007 at 8:37 pmAw jeebus, the “good old days.”
June 10th, 2007 at 8:43 pmComment by trueblue — June 10, 2007 @ 8:24 pm
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I’ve written the admins, oh, 4 or 5 times in the past when comments would never show up (no violations of the Terms of Use). Never a response.
June 10th, 2007 at 8:54 pmAdmin/TP: Stop censoring my posts! All the posts that you have sensored have been within your threads guidelines. This is worse then the trolls that come in here and disrupt this site. Also, please create a “no topic” thread that people can talk about anything.
June 10th, 2007 at 9:04 pmFor what it’s worth, I’m using IE 7 in Windows Vista.
(Note to all…if you are a user of the Windows operating systems and find yourself shopping for a new computer the next time Microsoft announces the release of a new operating system, by all means avoid the new OS at all costs, at least for a couple of years. Get a system with the current OS because in this case, it looks like it’s going to take a year for all the software vendors to get up to date with Vista. I wanted to get a laptop with XP on it, but all the retailers sold out a week before Vista was being released. And as some of you probably know, Bill Gates & Co. refused to sell Vista, or any system with it preinstalled, before a certain date.)
Anyway…here’s the error code I get when I try to use the formatting buttons:
Can’t move focus to the control because it is invisible, not enabled, or of a type that does not accept the focus.
I’m now typing the html formatting codes manually, but it would be real nice if the buttons worked. Yes, in our remote controlled, drive-through, instant messaging world I’ve become lazy.
I’m searchng the Yahoo! now to see if there are any solutions.
June 10th, 2007 at 9:15 pmComment by JTitor — June 10, 2007 @ 9:04 pm
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I concur…an “open thread” once a day would be a nice addition.
June 10th, 2007 at 9:17 pmHmmmm…just noticed this announcement at the bottom of the comment window. Has it been there long?
Be patient, your comment may take up to a minute to appear.
June 10th, 2007 at 9:18 pmreading the latest comments, it occurred to me that the info about what systems we are using could be beneficial to TPs troubleshooting…
but, really, what do i know? …
however, for the record, i’m a mac os10…
…
i love my mac like i love my toyota…
June 10th, 2007 at 9:26 pmsome things are just made right…
btw – my corolla wagon is 15 yrs old, 175000 miles…
the mac is almost 4… uncounted “miles” on it…
…
Hi miz katy!
June 10th, 2007 at 10:21 pmJTitor & WC,
There is an open thread each weekday — the ThinkFast. They link to several different stories, but it’s always been an open thread.
TP used to do one in the evening, as well, but they stopped doing it for some reason. We loved it.
Weekends, we’re on our own. I consider Paris Hilton & Bill O’Reilly-type threads to be open threads.
June 10th, 2007 at 10:22 pmduh
June 10th, 2007 at 10:23 pmRUC,
Did ya get my “walk through?” :-)
June 10th, 2007 at 10:23 pmNothing’s perfect and considering we don’t have to pay to read or post, don’t get spam, don’t get pop-up ads or any other form of advertizing, I’d rather type in text codes or deal with posting delays or the sort of mechanical problems that have to do with technology than there be no TP at all.
I do, however, agree that deleting posts that don’t violate the rules is a different matter that’s human and not mechanical… Though TP is much more tolerant post-Judd, it is frustrating to have a comment disappear when it was legal, and relevent.
It’s just nice to be kept informed of what’s going on, because those who post here (minus the trolls) consider ourslves a part of the community, as Judd used to call it. We don’t know anything unless you tell us about it, and as I’ve learned, our culture tends to assume the worst if you don’t first explain. :D
Thanks!
June 10th, 2007 at 10:30 pmComment by unbelievable — June 10, 2007 @ 10:30 pm
Yeah, it’s like we’re one big happy, happy family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 10th, 2007 at 10:32 pmYeah, it’s like we’re one big happy, happy family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Mr. President — June 10, 2007 @ 10:32 pm
I excluded you. That’s what ‘minus the trolls’ means.
People with healthy self-esteem have what are known as ego boundaries. If you insist on crossing them, no matter how often you are asked to stop, you get excluded from the group.
If you want to be included, you have to play nice and act like a reasonable human being. Otherwise, your choice – your consequences.
June 10th, 2007 at 11:02 pmThere is an open thread each weekday — the ThinkFast.
Comment by Zooey — June 10, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
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Duh. You are correct. But I was thinking literally, I guess. Other blogs have open threads that are called just that.
June 10th, 2007 at 11:11 pmDuh. You are correct. But I was thinking literally, I guess. Other blogs have open threads that are called just that.
Comment by WC
We’ve asked for that, but no go. I don’t know why.
June 10th, 2007 at 11:40 pmThanks Mistress Z~!
June 10th, 2007 at 11:53 pmHopefully the Capn will come alive!
RUC,
I can’t wait!
June 11th, 2007 at 12:00 amRUC,
Check your name spelling.
We’re here to serve. Thank you.
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RV
June 11th, 2007 at 1:03 amComment by Royston Vasey — June 11, 2007 @ 1:03 am
What the fukc is all this mess?!?!?!?
There is no “ing” in Latin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
June 11th, 2007 at 1:40 amSo, TP went to all the time and effort of migrating servers, but didn’t bother to upgrade the message board software.
So many things could have been accomplished with a software upgrade…threaded commentary, user registration, comment moderation, etc., etc., etc. …not to mention having posts show up in a timely manner.
But, none of that has been done. A server migration would have been a GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY to get all this accomplished, and revitalize this site, but the Powers that Be at TP would rather continue the status quo.
In fact, the only change I can discern is the message added to the bottom of the page: “Be patient, your comment may take up to a minute to appear.”. Thanks a lot, TP. That’s the online equivalent of the doctor responding to the patient that says “Doctor, it hurts when I do this.”, with the pithy “Well, don’t do that, then.” . Completely useless.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. There are plenty of other sandboxes out there, and if you continue treating your sandbox as a catbox, don’t be surprised when we decide to look for a cleaner sandbox.
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