While a number of us posted thread titles excoriating management last night, there’s nothing today. No questions. Nary a peep.
All of the announcements are gone. Apparently, if there’s no acknowledgement of the gorilla in the corner, he ceases to exist.
It’s sad to see that when shitty service continues long enough, people become inured to it, and will welcome it over no service at all.
I sent a hand-written letter to the Chicago Reader very diplomatically telling them that their board software is a fucking worthless piece of hog shit. If every active Doper did the same thing, we might actually make a difference.
I applaud your action, Argent Towers. While I’d like to believe that they will listen to lowly shlubs like thee and me, my realist says we’ve been tuned out, because our $ lost from nonrenewal is more than offset by new meat. And ads. So why cut down on the hookers and blow to improve?
I don’t give a fuck. When the forum doesn’t work I do something else.
I think you’re under some sort of misunderstanding that the Chicago Reader developed vBulletin. This is not in fact accurate. They are customers who are long since hostage to the same software that we are.
I don’t comment on the OP as a whole, but I post on a number of message boards that use vBulletin. This is the only implementation of it that sucks notably. There are much later versions of it, also.
I’m sorry, I could not log on or reset my password for the last few days. Did I miss something…or maybe that was some of the issue?
Pardon me. Where did I make that claim, or infer same?
Work with me, here. The SDMB, a pay site, is running vBulletin 3.0.7
Other FREE websites which don’t crash, are running vBulletin 3.7.2
Previous posts by folks who know a boatload more than you and I have indicated that the upgrade is chump change.
The Chicago Reader did not develop vBulletin. They can certainly upgrade it. though, to the most recent version: 3.7.2. The SDMB is on 3.0.7. Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening soon; change of any sort at the SDMB happens at a glacial pace compared to most popular message boards out there.
Wow! It’s like Vuja Dave.
If I make “The server at boards.straightdope.com is taking too long to respond” my sig line, will the mods think I’m being a jerk? Because that’s what I get nearly as often as an actual thread.
An SDMB server walks into a bar. The other servers aren’t that fucked up, and duck.
From the SDMB:
From the JelSoft website:
VBulletin 3.0.x, which the SDMB is using, dates back to mid-2004.
As others have noted, there are literally hundreds of bulletin boards out there, many of them larger that the SDMB, and many of them FREE, that manage to run the latest version, and that also manage not to be crap.
It’s because we hated you.
No. seriously-the board was down last night because one of the hampsters strained a groinical extensor maximus ligament, and the replacement hampster was on holiday in Ampstedam.
We don’t hate you.
If the problem persists, go to ATMB and make an appropriate offering involving goats, calimari, and stylish 1950’s womens shoes.
Have you any suggestions, mhendo?
Well, if you’d stop having your goddamn "Cat Black and White Formal Ball"s in the server room maybe the hamsters would stop getting spooked and running away!
Yeah, I know it was you, danceswithcats, your username IS somewhat incriminating…
So, when are we going to free posting, then? I’m pretty sure we were told either June or July. It’s now August.
They didn’t say what year. We’ll be complaining about human interest stories and insufficient coverage of synchronized handball on NBC coverage of the London Olympics before free posting returns to the SDMB, I fear.
And it’ll still be running 3.0.7. Yeah, there’s still some other boards running 3.0.7, but nothing on the scale of the SDMB.
Yeah. What they said 19 months ago is applicable to today. And probably 19 months from today. As I’ve said before, past is prologue.