System Outagegay.com and Planetout.com are 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.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Down again
Just tried to log on and got this:
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Chat Client 9.0 is in beta testing!
HOORAY!!!! We're getting closer and closer to finally having a 3rd-party program to use for chatting on gay.com!!
Jean-Guy has Chat Client 9.0 in beta testing. You can follow its progress here http://www.gayboi.org/ and clicking the "Forums" link in the upper right corner.
The program is not available to the general public yet, but some people are getting in on the beta testing.
Maybe this will be the salvation of chat on gay.com
Jean-Guy has Chat Client 9.0 in beta testing. You can follow its progress here http://www.gayboi.org/ and clicking the "Forums" link in the upper right corner.
The program is not available to the general public yet, but some people are getting in on the beta testing.
Maybe this will be the salvation of chat on gay.com
Monday, May 4, 2009
Didn't we just do this two days ago?
On gay.com tonight:
Well, maybe if they do it more often they won't be down 8-12 hours at a time. Although this is going to cut into their international prime time usage.
Planned Outage
gay.com will be offline on May 5, 2009 from 4:00 am to 8:00 am PST for scheduled maintenance.
Well, maybe if they do it more often they won't be down 8-12 hours at a time. Although this is going to cut into their international prime time usage.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
"Scheduled Maintenance"
So, I see today they have posted:
Translation:
Last night, around 10 p.m. Central time users couldn't pull up profiles at all. Chat rooms were working fine, but if you tried to open someone's profile the browser just "hung" waiting for the page to load.
There is currently no mention of the maintenance at their official blog, but I'm sure that they'll post something at around 10 am PST when the site has been down 2 hours longer than anticipated (this is their usual MO).
The merger with Here/Regent still hasn't been finalized and they've extended the deadline from April 30 to May 31 (SEC Filing). It makes me wonder if Regent is realizing just how little the gay.com name is now worth. Let's face it, the domain name is about the only real asset they have. There is no customer loyalty to the brand, so the existing subscriber base is worthless (everyone who subscribes would gladly jump to another site). The existing web site is a mess and will need to be completely reprogrammed to be useful (the goal of trying to keep out adbots with the new site was circumvented within 2 days of the release of the new site). Any gay.com staff that might have been of benefit to Regent have been laid off or resigned. The stock that was selling for over $1.00 at the time of the agreement hasn't sold for over 25 cents in the past 3 months.
Maybe Regent is just waiting for gay.com to go bankrupt and then buy the domain name at a firesale price.
Planned Outage
gay.com will be offline on May 3, 2009 from 6:00 am to 8:00 am PST for scheduled maintenance.
Translation:
OOPS!
We found something else wrong with the system so we'll be offline for at least 8 hours trying to fix it.
Last night, around 10 p.m. Central time users couldn't pull up profiles at all. Chat rooms were working fine, but if you tried to open someone's profile the browser just "hung" waiting for the page to load.
There is currently no mention of the maintenance at their official blog, but I'm sure that they'll post something at around 10 am PST when the site has been down 2 hours longer than anticipated (this is their usual MO).
The merger with Here/Regent still hasn't been finalized and they've extended the deadline from April 30 to May 31 (SEC Filing). It makes me wonder if Regent is realizing just how little the gay.com name is now worth. Let's face it, the domain name is about the only real asset they have. There is no customer loyalty to the brand, so the existing subscriber base is worthless (everyone who subscribes would gladly jump to another site). The existing web site is a mess and will need to be completely reprogrammed to be useful (the goal of trying to keep out adbots with the new site was circumvented within 2 days of the release of the new site). Any gay.com staff that might have been of benefit to Regent have been laid off or resigned. The stock that was selling for over $1.00 at the time of the agreement hasn't sold for over 25 cents in the past 3 months.
Maybe Regent is just waiting for gay.com to go bankrupt and then buy the domain name at a firesale price.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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.
I'm wondering if the Regent/here! management will have the balls to admit the failures that the old PlanetOut management refused to acknowledge?
Posted by Jason Herrick on April 7, 2009We 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.
I'm wondering if the Regent/here! management will have the balls to admit the failures that the old PlanetOut management refused to acknowledge?
Monday, April 6, 2009
Shock!
This is the first time I've seen one of these in a long time.
Of course I haven't been online as much as I used to.
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.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Long time!
It's been more than 6 weeks since I've noticed an outage worth blogging about ... although the past two days I've had a helluva time staying connected to the group chats. Sometimes it's my computer/browser that acts up. Several times it's that I've been logged out due to "inactivity" despite the fact that I'm one of the most chatty guys in the room.
It's also been more than 6 weeks since I've heard much of anything about the Regent takeover of PlanetOut. PO's CEO resigned. They have NO executive officers listed on their corporate web site (http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=179769&p=irol-govmanage).
There's a really interesting article online about how gay print media is "going bust." http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=3516&MediaType=1&Category=28 The glossy mag Genre just closed up shop. Apparently there's been some "corporate raider" behavior of regional gay publications being bought up, stripped and dumped.
Then there's some interesting information about how one holding group now owns more than 25% of PlanetOut, recently buying more half of their stake at 6 cents a share.
They've been notified (again) by NASDAQ that they don't meet minimum listing requirements (http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/03/16/daily1.html).
I'm just wondering when (or if) the merger/purchase will be completed.
It's also been more than 6 weeks since I've heard much of anything about the Regent takeover of PlanetOut. PO's CEO resigned. They have NO executive officers listed on their corporate web site (http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=179769&p=irol-govmanage).
There's a really interesting article online about how gay print media is "going bust." http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=3516&MediaType=1&Category=28 The glossy mag Genre just closed up shop. Apparently there's been some "corporate raider" behavior of regional gay publications being bought up, stripped and dumped.
Then there's some interesting information about how one holding group now owns more than 25% of PlanetOut, recently buying more half of their stake at 6 cents a share.
They've been notified (again) by NASDAQ that they don't meet minimum listing requirements (http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/03/16/daily1.html).
I'm just wondering when (or if) the merger/purchase will be completed.
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