META: Stability of Site
November 24th, 2015 at 10:02 AM ^
I got the same "connection refused" error as the last time, which was scheduled maintenance. I wager this was the same, no guarantees though.
November 24th, 2015 at 11:04 AM ^
also scheduled, and the back-end software should be all upgraded now. shouldn't happen going forward.
November 24th, 2015 at 12:49 PM ^
Or just rolling with what you currently have? It's hard to help when you are never willing to address the issue.
November 24th, 2015 at 10:12 AM ^
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November 24th, 2015 at 10:18 AM ^
+1. Jessica Jones was great.
November 24th, 2015 at 10:04 AM ^
I have never paid for any online content but I would pay for this.
November 24th, 2015 at 11:03 AM ^
what's stopping you?
November 24th, 2015 at 12:15 PM ^
November 24th, 2015 at 10:06 AM ^
BEVELED GUILT.
November 24th, 2015 at 10:08 AM ^
Sure, great idea. I have no problem donating, but I'd like to have some assurance that issues will be addressed. I'm certainly not comlaining about free content, but this is the only (free) site I visit that regularly goes down.
November 24th, 2015 at 10:29 AM ^
November 24th, 2015 at 2:05 PM ^
Not at all. Not sure why you think that based on what I said.
edit: like, seriously, nothing I said above is in any way rude or implies anger.
November 24th, 2015 at 10:35 AM ^
content, and before you donate you want "assurances"? /wanking motion
get bent
November 24th, 2015 at 10:51 AM ^
While there is no MgoSubscription fee, we are still Brians customers. That would be some real Dave Brandon shit if Brian has the same attitude about our complaints as you.
tl ;dr no, you get bent.
November 24th, 2015 at 10:55 AM ^
November 24th, 2015 at 11:10 AM ^
Made no such equation :)
Nice straw man though.
November 24th, 2015 at 11:26 AM ^
November 24th, 2015 at 11:44 AM ^
November 24th, 2015 at 11:34 AM ^
You were the one who brought Brandon's name into the conversation, and you can't seriously expect to do that without the entirety of Brandon's record coming along with that mention. It's hard to think of another sports figure who brings more negative baggage with him on MGoBlog than Brandon.
November 24th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
Yes I can and should expect to not have everything about everything brought up. That's the heart of the issue with the straw man fallacy. If you cannot discuss Dave Brandon's actions on say general admission seating without thinking I'LL BET HE'S KICKED A NUMBER OF PUPPIES OVER THE YEARS* that's your problem.
It's pretty fucking simple guys. I responded to this:
"metric f*cktons of free content, and before you donate you want "assurances"? /wanking motion get bent"
With saying that's some fuck-my-stakeholders-Dave Brandon-attitude and I'm glad Brian doesn't think that way.
*my $ says he has.
November 24th, 2015 at 12:46 PM ^
If you cannot discuss Dave Brandon's actions on say general admission seating without thinking I'LL BET HE'S KICKED A NUMBER OF PUPPIES OVER THE YEARS* that's your problem.
+1 sir. +1.
November 24th, 2015 at 1:18 PM ^
the guy with the dog at gunpoint....?
November 24th, 2015 at 1:41 PM ^
Seven years... heard about it maybe twice.
This season? Evey post someone makes a deal of my pic.
November 24th, 2015 at 11:26 AM ^
Technically we are the product. Site owners make money from ad revenue, not us. So the people buying ads on the site are the paying customers. And they are paying to get the ads in front of the product, us. The site content is like deer bait in hunting season; it just gets the product where it needs to be.
This is the "new way" and I'm not complaining, just pointing it out. When people understand this relationship the privacy whack-a-mole game that Facebook plays makes more sense.
November 24th, 2015 at 11:53 AM ^
Probably. I hate marketing. My point is simply that we are necessary for MgoBlog to exist.
November 24th, 2015 at 12:58 PM ^
Which might explain your reasonable and well-intentioned but I think unrealistic expectation that baggage shouldn't accompany the mere mention of somebody's name.
Marketing generally depends on the leveraging of unspoken associations in the target audience's mind, even if they're tangential to the specific thing being marketed. That it's frequently scurrilous in intent—like racial dog-whistling in political campaign ads—doesn't mean it's not effective, unfortunately. Compartmentalization in the human mind isn't absolute.
November 24th, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^
You're doing a fine job with your argument.
November 24th, 2015 at 10:50 AM ^
I mean, is it really that bad? Especially for a free site that is minimal with the ads? I believe the last time it went Brian said it was because a user put some copyrighted material as their avatar that got flagged and the website taken offline until they could remove it. Not sure what the MGoBlog staff can really do about that stuff unless you want every avatar to be approved before it's put on the site. That's pretty damn labor intensive too.
November 24th, 2015 at 12:39 PM ^
I mean, is it really that bad? Especially for a free site that is minimal with the ads?
No, it's worse than that bad.
I've run free sites, and I'm a member of a number of other advertising supported sites (one with over 100,000 members) - and they don't have these problems.
Note - I didn't say they don't have these problems as often. They just plain don't have them.
This is a relatively cheap and easy thing to fix, that has been going on for years. It's not a traffic problem, it's not a cost problem, it's not a technology problem... it's just a lack of willingness to solve relatively simple and well understood issue.
A few thousand dollars to some developers, a move to virtual servers... all these problem would be gone in a month and the interface would at least get up to Y2K levels of modernity.
The issues here continuing aren't an insurmountable moutain - they're a choice.
November 24th, 2015 at 11:10 AM ^
I believe drupal is an app that isn't very load balancer friendly even if MGoblog were hosted in a cloud environment (I don't know if it isn't.)
http://www.slideshare.net/burgerboydaddy/scaling-drupal-horizontally-an…
November 24th, 2015 at 10:07 AM ^
November 24th, 2015 at 10:11 AM ^
You play cards in the morning?
November 24th, 2015 at 10:15 AM ^
Touch the Banner was down too. Any explanation?
November 24th, 2015 at 10:17 AM ^
Supposedly, there was a power outage where the servers are located. The site is back up now.
My site goes down too much, too. I am looking into changing servers. But I have a lot less traffic and capital than MGoBlog.
November 24th, 2015 at 10:33 AM ^
November 24th, 2015 at 10:33 AM ^
Are cloud-based server hosts more expensive? And if so, by how much?
November 24th, 2015 at 11:11 AM ^
But, depending on how things are architected, transitioning over is not trivial. You need web servers, DB servers and cache servers. It's all doable at AWS or Google or MSFT but the transition is tough and would be very tough during the season.
November 24th, 2015 at 10:37 AM ^
I sometimes wonder whether it’s because Bruce BANNER may be angry about all the TOUCHing?
November 24th, 2015 at 11:01 AM ^
is TTB and MGoblog on the same farm? I thought there was something wrong with my connection when I was failing to connect to both sites at once.
November 24th, 2015 at 11:18 AM ^
Not that I know of. It was just an unlucky coincidence.
November 24th, 2015 at 12:42 PM ^
Virtual servers.
I really, really, don't understand why anyone would be running a site on actual physical harware with no fallover.
When my wife was running a few hundred person site and spending <$2000 per year in hosting - SHE was doing it.
November 24th, 2015 at 1:21 PM ^
$2,000 a year isn't chump change.
November 24th, 2015 at 1:40 PM ^
A couple of years ago they managed to gin up $60,000+ to put out a magazine, and they have something like 5 employees - $2,000 is not a large part of their budget.
My wife managed to come up with her hosting fees through donations on a couple hundred member site... there are what, 20-30,000 members here?
November 24th, 2015 at 2:04 PM ^
I thought you were suggesting it for me and my site. My site isn't as lucrative as MGoBlog. But yeah, it's obviously less drastic of an expenditure for MGoBlog.
November 24th, 2015 at 10:18 AM ^
IT IS A CONSPIRACY!
November 24th, 2015 at 10:29 AM ^
November 24th, 2015 at 12:31 PM ^
There are four letters in "Ohio."
"Touch the Banner MGoBlog" is four words.
Words can be spelled out in script.
The Ohio State band is known for spelling out the word "Ohio" in script.
[hand waving]
Illuminati.