yesterday was obviously monday.

[kaydeefalls]

You know, as irritating as the ongoing LJ technical kablooie is, it would bother me a lot less if somewhere -- ANYWHERE -- the LJ team would post a quick explanation of what's going on and when we might expect it to be fixed. Like on the LJ news or announcements comm, for example. Or at status.livejournal.org, which is incredibly vague and hasn't been updated in nearly 24 hours. Look, I get that sometimes things just go kablooie, and they aren't quickly or easily repaired. I don't even need a definitive ETA. But some kind of regular update saying look, this is the situation, we're not sure how long it will take, we've restored features XYZ but ABCDEF are unavailable until further notice -- I'm just saying, it would be appreciated. A page that I can refresh that will actually tell me when things are functional again. Which, hey, the status page might, but with the whole hasn't-been-updated-in-nearly-24-hours thing, I really have no reason to trust it right now. UGH.

In other technical difficulties, yesterday was my one evening off. (I work two jobs. I don't get full days off. On Mondays I only work a 6-hour day -- that's my "day off".) So I decided to treat myself to a movie, since I still haven't seen the last Harry Potter, or Captain America. I got off work, I headed out to the mall a mile-ish away from my apartment, checked the showtimes, killed time for about an hour before the movie -- and then learned that the A/C in the movie theater was broken. My fondness for Harry Potter is not such that I'm willing to sit in a muggy 95F theater for 2+ hours, sorry, NO. And that was my last "day off" for two weeks. ARGH.

So I went home and wrote 3k more words of the kinkmeme fill that I can't post because LJ is kablooie. And of course, this was the scene I have been looking forward to the whole time -- like, this was the first image that came into my head, around which the entire 35k-words-and-still-going-strong fic is based. And I can't fucking post it. In the scheme of life, the universe, and everything, this is a terribly petty thing to get hung up on, I know, but still. FRUSTRATED.

Comments

[hope]

Their twitter seems to have a bit more frequent updating: https://twitter.com/#!/livejournal

[kaydeefalls]

That's...slightly better than the status page, though not by much. But thanks for the link!

[hope]

And the fact that it's used more than their OFFICIAL STATUS PAGE is total bullshit. But yeah ;)

[tardis_stowaway]

Oh no, your failed attempt to see Harry Potter sounds so frustrating! Lack of AC on a humid summer day is definitely a deal-breaker. Alas.

Long LJ outage with almost no information is driving me bonkers. It would definitely be better if they kept us a little more informed, even if the news wasn't good or was largely tech speak I don't really follow. The lack of updates makes it look like they're clueless and/or just don't give a damn about the users. I keep wanting to commiserate with my flist about it, but that doesn't work when I can't get onto the bloody site.

I have other useful things to do online that I should be doing while I'm not occupied on LJ, but I find myself unable to concentrate on much beyond refreshing to see if it's back yet. Of course the outage began when I had just come to a cliffhanger chapter ending of a fic I was reading, clicked the link to the next chapter, and found that LJ had been eaten by a velociraptor. :(

[kaydeefalls]

It's just kind of ridiculous that they have no notice on their homepage about the technical issues. If you don't know about the status page -- which is only linked from the main page if the entire site is down -- you'd have NO IDEA why things weren't loading or comments not going through. Seriously, LJ, I will gladly take techspeak that I don't understand, because at least it reassures me that someone, somewhere is fixing things. :/

[msilverstar]

LJ is so not communicating well about this :-(

Could you post the kinkmeme fill here?

[kaydeefalls]

LJ fails at communication. As per.

I'm still posting the fill anonymously at the kinkmeme itself -- I don't want to de-anon until the fic is complete. :/