Today's downtime

[shinyedges]

Good thread, and thanks Kevin for keeping the place alive. It's my internet home and idc how many times we gotta deal with server space or downtime, I'm not going anywhere, unfortunately for some of yall

 

[Wild Willie]

Good thread, and thanks Kevin for keeping the place alive. It's my internet home and idc how many times we gotta deal with server space or downtime, I'm not going anywhere, unfortunately for some of yall

That's my take too. I view the downtime like getting to your crazy uncle's place and he's not home. Just come back later, the shenanigans will most certainly pick up where they left off.

 

[shinyedges]

That's my take too. I view the downtime like getting to your crazy uncle's place and he's not home. Just come back later, the shenanigans will most certainly pick up where they left off.

Inevitably people get worked up because this place doesn't have the software reliability of Facebook. I just don't care. Vbulletin, xeno, whatever. I been through my share of outages and issues here, and if this place ever shut down I'd refresh it everyday hoping it would come back.

 

[91bravo]

I love this forum. Made some lifelong friends here, that I would let crash on my couch if they ever needed to.

 

[shinyedges]

I love this forum. Made some lifelong friends here, that I would let crash on my couch if they ever needed to.

See you soon

 

[Wild Willie]

Inevitably people get worked up because this place doesn't have the software reliability of Facebook. I just don't care. Vbulletin, xeno, whatever. I been through my share of outages and issues here, and if this place ever shut down I'd refresh it everyday hoping it would come back.

Me too. Small operations without billions of dollars in backing are bound to have a hiccup eventually. I've no use for the big social media companies. So long as Spark keeps the lights on this will likely remain my only link to the outside world, without bladeforums my slip into full hermit status would be complete.

 

[shinyedges]

Me too. Small operations without billions of dollars in backing are bound to have a hiccup eventually. I've no use for the big social media companies. So long as Spark keeps the lights on this will likely remain my only link to the outside world, without bladeforums my slip into full hermit status would be complete.

You know I'm the same exact way, last time I used Facebook was on deployment in 2010. 14 years ago. I've never had Instagram or Twitter or others. Hermits unite.

 

[91bravo]

I’ve been through some ups and downs here, but at the end of the day, this is where the majority of my internet time is spent. Friends and knives, 2 of my favorite things.

 

[Pàdruig]

This is the only "social media" worth tuning into these days. I'm looking forward to the upgrades; having room to grow is always a good thing.

 

[Blues]

I only participate on one other site...which is primarily firearms (and LE) focused. But this has been home since before it officially opened in 1998...and I hope it will be around for (at least) another 26 years.

 

[oldmanwilly]

During the down time I must have checked the site about 2 dozen times, and each time I realized: "this is it, the only social media I really engage with." If it goes down again I'll just wait until it comes back online. There's no other place like it.

 

[jux t]

During the down time I must have checked the site about 2 dozen times, and each time I realized: "this is it, the only social media I really engage with." If it goes down again I'll just wait until it comes back online. There's no other place like it.

 

[Planterz]

I'm still getting timeouts here and there.

 

[jlauffer]

I'm still getting timeouts here and there.

Start behaving and that won't happen...

 

[palonej]

That rapscallion will never behave!

Start behaving and that won't happen...