Anyone here able to get on the emb ngs?

Roy Lambert

On 8/12/2014 8:47 AM, Roy Lambert wrote:
> Anyone here able to get on the emb ngs?

Still down for me - http showed "under maintenance" yesterday but today
even that is dead

Raul

Raul wrote:

> On 8/12/2014 8:47 AM, Roy Lambert wrote:
> > Anyone here able to get on the emb ngs?
>
> Still down for me - http showed "under maintenance" yesterday but
> today even that is dead

I went to the web site, and it has some error message about
configuration. Another big breakdown I guess. Good job software isn't
their core competency.

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Matthew Jones

It has been down for me since Saturday.
This morning I got connected and picked up one new post .. then it
vanished again.
Fortunately I am not waiting for any answers!

On 8/12/2014 9:26 AM, Malcolm wrote:
> It has been down for me since Saturday.
> This morning I got connected and picked up one new post .. then it
> vanished again.
> Fortunately I am not waiting for any answers!
>


Maybe they're switching to twice annual release cycle also - you can
post and read 2 times per year

Issue as i recall is that the forums is a highly customized version of
3rd party product - they're unable to update it since it's radically
different from vendors version at this point and of course migrating it
to something else would be massive undertaking as well so it gets
minimal resources.

Raul

Raul wrote:

> Issue as i recall is that the forums is a highly customized version
> of 3rd party product - they're unable to update it since it's
> radically different from vendors version at this point and of course
> migrating it to something else would be massive undertaking as well
> so it gets minimal resources.

Plus last time (not long ago) it went down, it came up, people posted,
and then they reset to a different backup, thus losing the postings.
Awaiting stability will be wise for anything important.

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Matthew Jones

Matthew

>I went to the web site, and it has some error message about
>configuration. Another big breakdown I guess. Good job software isn't
>their core competency.

Ya know I've often thought that

Roy

Malcolm


>Fortunately I am not waiting for any answers!

Nor me I just want to post to tell people I've finally fixed something

Roy

Wow!
You finally discovered why your overnight stay awake, didn't?

Raul

>Issue as i recall is that the forums is a highly customized version of
>3rd party product - they're unable to update it since it's radically
>different from vendors version at this point and of course migrating it
>to something else would be massive undertaking as well so it gets
>minimal resources.

As we've said before I think Tim should sell them his - I don't know how well it would stand up under the load but Tim's are certainly off-line a lot less.

Having done a number of data migrations I don't think migrating the current stuff should be such a big deal unless current and future file systems are an abomination.

The current ones are a mess, they break threading, muck up formatting and seem to break down frequently. They should have been changed years ago.

Roy