What I find most amusing is that…

- There is more outright nastiness on the part of those blindly and 
unconditionally defending BGG than those raising entirely valid concerns 
and complaints. 

- This is still happening 8 hours into a site outage. It's been 3 years 
since I've seen a site this well supported and funded go down for this 
long. Is it the end of the world? Of course it's not, but it sure as heck 
points to serious problems at the admin level. 

Most encouraging thing I've seen here (on the Google Group most definitely 
not this thread) is that the owner is finally seriously looking at 
solutions not built from his own code. It's an enormous feat that one guys 
work has taken this site so far, but it's also quite clear that this is no 
longer sustainable or what is best for the community as a whole. 

I think it's a shame that so many are unwilling to acknowledge that there 
even IS a problem, or see commentary on it as a simple statement of fact 
rather than an "attack". This kind of blind groupthink positivity actually 
hurts more than it helps, because if folks didn't always get shouted down 
for suggesting that there's a real issue, perhaps these alternatives would 
have been explored by the owner far earlier.

On Monday, January 14, 2013 12:59:46 AM UTC-5, raygun gothic wrote:
>
>   I'm shocked that there are people here that can't seem to allow a member 
> to vent a little frustration.   Do they really need to be called whiners or 
> told to go somewhere else or the like?  Can't you just let them get it off 
> their chests.  I think anyone who is a member of this site has the right to 
> say they are discouraged about something.  Criticism doesn't hurt 
> anything.  Cut a little slack jeez.  Most of nastiness isn't even from the 
> people who are expressing their frustration, it's the other side. 
>  
> Of course defenders have their right to speak also but do it nicely 
> please.  One can defend BGG and all it does without attacking or being rude 
> to anyone.
>  
>    One of the best things of BGG are it's users and some of the 
> people here are not making a good example.  Just my 2 cents.  OK carry 
> on... I must leave you and go deal with Wu-Feng.  Happy gaming!
>  
>
> On Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:28:41 PM UTC-6, Wytefang wrote:
>
>> I love the site, honestly, like we all do, but I don't think I've ever 
>> seen a site go down as much as this one.  In fairness, there's a lot going 
>> on here with the three sites but wow.  :(
>>
>> Might be time for some new database software or servers or something - 
>> clearly whatever is being used isn't cutting the mustard, so to speak.
>>
>> Yikes!  
>>
>>
>>

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