Superiorpics has been down for 24 hours

Could this be the end of the line? There have been many rumours, and I imagine that some of the mods would agree, that the owners don't really seem to care any more.

Or is it just a case of being a huge upgrade?

I doubt it's a huge upgrade...

Yeah, which is why I'm concerned its been 24 hours now.

This doesn't surprise me at all. At all. They've been going thru this ever since they moved (downgraded) their server a few years back (can't remember when that was). But after the blow up in that one thread there about how many of the major posters were getting really tired of the bullshit did the owners get things running halfway decent.

It just appalls me on how such a huge site with as much traffic as it gets is so poorly run. They make money off that site and can afford to put it on a different server that doesn't have any down time. There's always going to be downtime issues with any server, but theirs takes the proverbial cake.

I hardly go there any more. I cruise the pictures section about once a week. Last week, i didn't download anything. That's how bad the posts have gotten. Huge pics labeled as HQ and when you see the huge pic, it's grainy as hell. And then there's there flood of sub par images of celebs walking down the street. 90% of those aren't worth the time.

And don't dare ask a question as to why something doesn't work right in there unless you have 41,000 posts to your name. Duh. If everyone registered on the site posted every day, the server would melt.

Seems to be back up for now. Can't see anybody mentioning the 24 hr down time though, I guess they are too scared in case they get ridiculed for having too few posts

The_Amber_Spyglass wrote:Seems to be back up for now. Can't see anybody mentioning the 24 hr down time though, I guess they are too scared in case they get ridiculed for having too few posts

I just peeked in there to see if it was up. So, i went to the main forum and to SP Corner. Nothing about the downtime.

How arrogant is that? I mean, with the amount of people who spend their time there and the mods can't even explain what happened? Even if they don't know would be an explanation.

I think that forum will slowly lose members in due time.

Down again for the last 10 hours now.

You guys should capitalise on this opportunity - strike while the iron is hot and poach some posters!

BecMacFeegle wrote:You guys should capitalise on this opportunity - strike while the iron is hot and poach some posters!

Can't poach posters when you can't get in to start with.

There's been plenty of invites for others to come here. Most went unheeded for whatever reason. No biggie. I invite once or twice and then I leave it at that. I think that many believe that you can't post in more than one place... which is insane.

There's this thing called 'nagging'...

BecMacFeegle wrote:There's this thing called 'nagging'...

Then they put you on Ignore.

Then they're goits and we don't want them here anyway. No place for the lily livered! And quit poking me!!!

BecMacFeegle wrote:Then they're goits and we don't want them here anyway. No place for the lily livered!

Are they toffy-nosed?

BecMacFeegle wrote:And quit poking me!!!

Ooopsie. I better stop that or Matt is going to get mad at me. I might hit a funny spot.

Oh no, if it stays down where will we go for The World According to picturepaws?!

The_Amber_Spyglass wrote:Oh no, if it stays down where will we go for The World According to picturepaws?!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Going on 18 hours now.

I got a "website not available" message last night. Today, the website is back up but nothing is working.

Still down... I get the home page but can't go to any of the sections...

I've never seen such a huge and popular site so poorly mismanaged. General Raam has his hands tied. As others have said, the owners don't give a shit. As long as the site makes money from the ads, it's all good. But I've seen the threads on valuable members that have left.

It's back.

Tim for you to go Miley cruising.

She hasn't done anything worth looking for recently.

Yeah, the contributions there are getting kinda 2nd rate, too.

Not a word in there as to why it went down for almost 24 hrs. That happened last time. No mention. But I guess if you ask why, you're told you don't have enough posts to be asking that question... even if it's 4,689 like I have in there.

I have well over 44,000 posts there, perhaps I should ask Cam what happened.