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Metafilter was unreachable this morning and is incredibly slow this evening - is there something we should know ?
posted by sgt.serenity to Bugs at 10:44 AM (46 comments total)

Yeah - aim for the head. MetaFilter won't be satisfied until it eats your brain, now.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 10:47 AM on October 24, 2006


I'm sorry son, she has rabies.
posted by bob sarabia at 10:50 AM on October 24, 2006


...is there something we should know?

/snaps out of forlorned gaze, glares over shoulder vindictively at the blue
posted by prostyle at 10:51 AM on October 24, 2006


MeFi's unreliability is part of its charm, seriously.

thank God the img src thingie has been disabled, this thread would have been buried under various owls and .gifs of pangolins fucking fax machines
posted by matteo at 10:55 AM on October 24, 2006


The server went down right after I went to sleep, and didn't come back up until the next morning when web services auto-restart. This hasn't happened in months, but once in a while it does.

The server has also been really slow from about 10am-2pm Pacific time (6-10pm GMT?) since that's kind of the height of mid-day, bored American worker time.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:58 AM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]


Absence makes the heart grow fonder. It is those long dark early mornings, nervously drinking coffee and sitting by the phone and wondering when, and, eventually, if mefi will be back, if this time it has left you for good—it is those interludes which cement in the mind of the truly faithful the special contract of mutual satisfaction they share with Metafilter.

Plus it gives us something to complain about in IRC.
posted by cortex at 11:12 AM on October 24, 2006


ach well.
posted by sgt.serenity at 11:14 AM on October 24, 2006


Absence Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:21 AM on October 24, 2006


Anschluss makes the heart go yonder.
posted by cortex at 11:26 AM on October 24, 2006


Abs inch mixed a hard grove under.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:38 AM on October 24, 2006



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O RLY?
posted by Eideteker at 12:03 PM on October 24, 2006 [3 favorites]


Hah, I guess I got flagged hard. Here's the original, kids.

BTW, I closed the pre tag in my next comment; sorry if I hosed the mycomments page (but the followup comment would've fixed that).
posted by Eideteker at 12:07 PM on October 24, 2006


I have a dish. In my spats.
posted by loquacious at 12:27 PM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]


Abcess makes the fart go "Honda."

(C'mon, it's an old joke...)
posted by klangklangston at 12:32 PM on October 24, 2006


I blame Google. And the new custom Googly thing.

The server went down right after I went to sleep, and didn't come back up until the next morning when web services auto-restart.

Have you thought about doing the auto-restart more often?
posted by grouse at 12:50 PM on October 24, 2006


Whatever you do, don't suggest that the slowdown has anything to do with those tabs - there might be a trainwreck flameout.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 12:52 PM on October 24, 2006


12:51 Pacific time and MeFi is almost groaning audibly. I have other things to do, so I will leave the slim capability available for those more seriously addicted.
*expects public service medal*
posted by Cranberry at 12:54 PM on October 24, 2006


Obsessed takes on Ron for Foster

Shit, that's no good. Damn you, Hinckley.
posted by cortex at 12:55 PM on October 24, 2006


yes - 3 minutes to post
posted by Cranberry at 12:55 PM on October 24, 2006


Ass stink shakes foley's fondle.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 1:21 PM on October 24, 2006


do a barrel roll.
posted by StrasbourgSecaucus at 1:28 PM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]


On the good side, Mefi down means I actually got some work done today.
posted by typewriter at 1:39 PM on October 24, 2006


ok, i promise never to snark again , you can turn the wheel on the internet pipe back on now matt .........
posted by sgt.serenity at 2:06 PM on October 24, 2006


How nice has MeFi been w/o the img tag lately? Cheers!
posted by xmutex at 2:40 PM on October 24, 2006


It may be a coincidence, but access from London has been very slow since the Ajax incursion.
posted by urbanwhaleshark at 2:44 PM on October 24, 2006


on the other hand, my tub is gleaming.
posted by quonsar at 3:02 PM on October 24, 2006


well, Santa is short one reindeer because Comet is cleaning my tub...
posted by wendell at 3:14 PM on October 24, 2006


Also, just to be clear, there is no cabal.
posted by cortex at 3:15 PM on October 24, 2006


I for one look forward to the return of the img tag, as images wielded by mefites consistently make me laugh.

But then I like politics threads, so what do I know? :)
posted by By The Grace of God at 3:25 PM on October 24, 2006


Matter felt aw as in rear chapel the sworn in hand sink red up lease loathe is even ink - stair sum think wheesh hood no?

Yes, I'm wasting my 1000th MeTa comment on that.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 3:30 PM on October 24, 2006


However, if it meant that the IMG tag would stay gone permanently, I'd gladly put up with slower load times.

yes, I know the two aren't related


Actually, it's a little known fact that MetaFilter is supported by pissing elephants.
posted by Stauf at 4:11 PM on October 24, 2006


Actually, it's a little known fact that MetaFilter is supported by pissing elephants.

And they're standing on the back of a shitting tortoise, who is shitting on the head of the tortoise that it stands on, and so on, all the way down.
posted by solid-one-love at 5:35 PM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]


I want to do a tagline here, something about metafilter: and being supported by pissing elephants since 1999, but that would require more energy than I have right now.

cortex : Also, just to be clear, there is no cabal.

Liar. I have it on good authority that you, amberglow and delmoi all have fiber running directly to the MeFi primary cluster thus ensuring that you have constant access, even in the event of a world wide nuclear holocaust.

Lucky bastards.
posted by quin at 5:43 PM on October 24, 2006


Well, yes, but that's really more of a triumverate. A cabal, now...that'd be something. If there was one. Which there isn't.
posted by cortex at 5:47 PM on October 24, 2006


You know what else is a triumvirate? The Axis of Evil.

I'm just sayin'.
posted by quin at 5:51 PM on October 24, 2006


Yeah, but so was The Police. So it's a wash.

Admission: I use google as my spellcheck. I tried triumverate, and the hit count seemed awfully low (only 64K or so?) but it didn't offer its usual helpful correction, so I ran with it. Woe!
posted by cortex at 5:59 PM on October 24, 2006


Ha! Bow before the mighty power that is Firefox 2.0's integrated spellcheck!

(Actually I thought your spelling was correct. I was quite surprised when it highlighted to tell me to select try a different spelling.)
posted by quin at 6:48 PM on October 24, 2006


select

*sigh*
posted by quin at 7:02 PM on October 24, 2006


Google as spellchecker? pffft. dictionary.com is where it's at.
posted by crunchland at 7:54 PM on October 24, 2006


Have you thought about doing the auto-restart more often?

I thought Matt had set it up months ago to auto-restart more often than once per night. Was that not the case, Matt?
posted by mediareport at 8:43 PM on October 24, 2006


Huh. Guess not. It's every 12 hours. Matt, is there a reason *not* to do it more often?
posted by mediareport at 8:46 PM on October 24, 2006


dictionary.com is where it's at.

Never underestimate the power of human laziness. Google is my copilot homepage. Middle-click newtab, type, enter, bam.
posted by cortex at 9:03 PM on October 24, 2006


I google google because google its google useful google.
posted by oxford blue at 9:23 PM on October 24, 2006


dictionary.com sux. dictionary.hm is the schznit!
posted by Otis at 6:11 AM on October 25, 2006


Can you next time just add the word "dictionary" after your search? A search for [triumvirate dictionary] will show you pretty quickly that that is the correct spelling (while "triumverate" is clearly not).
posted by grouse at 10:25 AM on October 25, 2006


That would no doubt do it, but I was really defeated by a fundamental failure in common sense. I went to google because I wasn't sure of my spelling; I looked at the hit count and balked at the low numbers; and yet, because the top hit was a dictionary definition of the word and because google did not correct me, I failed to act on my gut instinct and perform further research.

There is no technical solution needed—I just need to not be so credulous when presented with questionable data.
posted by cortex at 12:53 PM on October 25, 2006


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