Tuesday, January 13, 2009

More weirdness

Online chatting right now I tried to open a "mini bio" from the user list and got this:


Planned System Maintenance
gay.com and Planetout.com are
currently down. This is a planned outage for system upgrades and we should
be
back online by 7:00am Pacific Time.
In the meantime, please visit our
sister
sites:
Gay Sports Blog —
www.gaysportsblog.com
Gay TV Blog — www.gaytvblog.com
Gay Music Blog — music.gay.com
Hot Topics — hottopics.gay.com
Gay Travel Blog — travel.gay.com
For news on the gay.com site, check out gay.blogs.com/gaycomblog
Thank you for your
patience.
Eric WilsonVP, Product Planning and Strategy

Although just going to http://gay.com/ you get:


System Outage
gay.com is currently experiencing technical
difficulties. We are aware of the problem and are working to fix it as soon as
we can. Please bear with us, we will be back online soon.
In the meantime,
please visit our sister sites:
planetout.com —
www.planetout.com
Gay Sports Blog —
www.gaysportsblog.com
Gay TV Blog —
www.gaytvblog.com
Gay Music Blog —
music.gay.com
Hot Topics —
hottopics.gay.com
Gay Travel Blog —
travel.gay.com
For news on the gay.com site,
check out
gay.blogs.com/gaycomblog
Thank you for your
patience.
Eric WilsonVP, Product Planning and Strategy


without the BS about it being a "planned" outage. So, where is the product "Planning and Strategy" in all of this???? Oddly enough chat continued to work for a few minutes after those errors.

These people can't be fired too soon.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

One of your wishes is coming true:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1287258/000095013409000555/f51106e8vk.htm

CTO William Bain is being laid off with a third of gay.com employees.

Great. I'm sure the service will REALLY improve now that nobody will be there to run it.

John said...

You really think it could get worse? I honestly think it might run better if left alone ... well, returned to where it was in September and left alone. I wonder if I can find the details of Bain's severance package. I hope it is 100% stock options.

Thanks for the news!!