Okay, not so shocked

Once again a poorly planned "upgrade" has gay.com down during prime time (at least for the U.S.). Yeah, the work that was supposed to be done in 8 hours is now over 16 hours. While they announced this upgrade in advance on gay.com they didn't bother to make any mention of it in their blog until the site had already been down at least 5 hours longer than anticipated.

Site Update - April 7

We are in the midst of a major system upgrade that will improve performance on gay.com. Unfortunately, given the complexity of the maneuver, it’s taking a little longer than we expected.

Thanks for checking in and please bear with us as we work to get gay.com up and humming for you again soon.

Posted by Jason Herrick on April 7, 2009

I'm wondering if the Regent/here! management will have the balls to admit the failures that the old PlanetOut management refused to acknowledge?

Shock!

This is the first time I've seen one of these in a long time.

Planned Outage
gay.com will be offline on April 7, 2009 between 2:00 AM to 10:00 AM PST for scheduled maintenance.

Of course I haven't been online as much as I used to.