August 16, 2003
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What’s the Charge, Officer?
As I promised Dan from Xanga, below is an update to my previous flog (flame-blog) of two days ago, “The daily Poo – Special Edition ‘Wither goest thou, Xanga’“.
Today the Xanga folks posted an ablogogy (apology-blog) that explains the odd behavior we have encountered the last week or so. But after reading the blog, I think it still leaves one to wonder why Dan was quick to explain the power outage, which was easy to figure out, but only made cursory reference to why the servers were down for several days before that last week. Though an earlier blog explains the suspected DDoS attack during the first week of August.
I give him credit for the effort he put into trying to restore connectivity during the blackout – and to be fair, it sounds as if he did everything he needed to on that end (although, the tone is sometimes as such that it seems to want us to feel sorry for him for doing what is essentially part of that type of job.) It appears though Xanga realizes it needs to communicate with users by placing announcements where we will find them (not all of us I fear, subscribe to Dan’s blog—though I am now and I would recommend it
). If announcements at the site don’t work, I would send out a mass e-mail, just explaining the rudiments of the current ordeal. But, no one is perfect and we are all a work in progress.
So in all fairness, I give Dan props. I think they are really busting their butts up there. I am a new Xangite, so I may well be behind the curve on some of the Xangese ways. But as a paid lifetime premium member who thought he had thoroughly done his homework before deciding to Xang-it, I just kept thinking, “Great, I could have bought five Gwyneth Paltrow DVD’s…
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-Blogbat
Post script
To my knowledge, I think I just coined “Flog” and “Ablogogy”, though if there is already someone who has, I’m sure he is laying low.
Comments (1)
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