Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 1:42 pm
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Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 6:03 pm
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 12:52 pm
Dammit man there might be new videos I need to know about!
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:02 am
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:49 am
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:03 am
It's coming back online, hang tight. Should be tomorrow sometime. We had to rebuild the server and it's currently (very slowly) repopulating the data from a disk image.
Needless to say, we're taking a hard look at a few things. Expect some changes after we get back up.
Needless to say, we're taking a hard look at a few things. Expect some changes after we get back up.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:06 pm
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Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 2:30 pm
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 5:57 pm
biggie biggie biggie
OMG I used to be obsessed with that robot guy, what was his name Twiki? I had the action figure and I would carry it around everywhere lol.
OMG I used to be obsessed with that robot guy, what was his name Twiki? I had the action figure and I would carry it around everywhere lol.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:19 pm
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 3:05 pm
It's still down for me! How am I supposed to know what new games came out this week?!?!?
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 3:17 pm
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 3:39 pm
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:32 pm
I can only imagine how painful this must be to try to fix. I can't think that anyone is happy with this much down time. Good luck to those slaving away in the salt mines of server rebuilding.
We're all counting on you.
We're all counting on you.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:46 pm
We are SO close! Just a few odds and ends that we're chasing down.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:47 pm
Ok, the front page of the site is back up (though we lost a few days of posts). We're still trying to fix the forums, and we'll have un update on that later today.
Thanks for bearing with us, everybody! This has been an ordeal to be sure
Thanks for bearing with us, everybody! This has been an ordeal to be sure
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:59 pm
and you've doubled your post count here.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:11 pm
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:16 pm
You lost an apostrophe. Was it surgical or a catastrophe?
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:22 pm
I think it was a passwordIsgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:16 pm You lost an apostrophe. Was it surgical or a catastrophe?
Honestly, that was so long ago I don't remember. Is there a way to merge the two?[EDIT: I actually think it was the apostrophe that made it impossible to login or change password at the time, after a software update or something...]
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:45 pm
I really need the forums fixed by tomorrow or I will be worrying about what the remaining 5 members are going to play during the President's Day weekend!!! 
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:22 pm
80% of us are here as well. I've considered posting the thread here before. it sounds like a job for Mr Post Count Isgrimnur though
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:31 pm
I think you misspelled Lord Mortis!coopasonic wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:22 pm80% of us are here as well. I've considered posting the thread here before. it sounds like a job for Mr Post Count Isgrimnur though
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 1:43 pm
Not to be too analytical but I think the problem here is you did a "what did you play?" as opposed to a "what are you going to play?" thread. The latter is filled with much more excitement and anticipation for what's to come, while the content of the former can simply be encompassed into the latter.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:14 pm
I'll be playing Final Fantasy XIV and maybe some Etrian Odyssey Nexus (although it's not grabbing me like I hoped it would).
Happy now??
Happy now??
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:22 pm
Not to ruffle any feathers, but has there been any thought to a merger between the two sites? GT seems focused on having an actual website with a frontpage where OO's focus is on its forum, and it would seem that the each would have something to offer the other and be mutually beneficial.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:25 pm
In that case I want to be paid.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:29 pm
The GT forum software is integrated with the site to some degree and the forum software itself is awful. GT is a business and OO is a hobby. There are really only two active posters on GT, at least on the gaming forums, that don't post here. Rittchard is the third that has been more GT than OO. I think Engine doesn't like that consoles have been kind of second class here with a segregated forum that muddies discussion since most games are cross-platform.
In the end it's not a simple thing.
In the end it's not a simple thing.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:55 pm
I don't like that much myself, and have pushed a couple of times to have the console and PC Games forums merged. It would be easier, it would give more more discussion of cross-platform games, it wouldn't alienate people, and it honestly doesn't make sense to do it the way we do anymore. It's a relic of Gone Gold that was at least justifiable a decade ago - but not anymore.coopasonic wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:29 pm I think Engine doesn't like that consoles have been kind of second class here with a segregated forum that muddies discussion since most games are cross-platform.
It isn't like the old objection ("too much traffic would push posts off the page too fast") is still valid.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:59 pm
Oh, and the Bargain Bin and Trade Forum need to be merged. The Trade Forum is really just a single thread (Pay it Forward Freebies.) Trading PC games isn't really a thing anymore. The entire forum beyond that thread has received exactly two posts in the past year. Moving PIFF to The Bargain Bin would give it and any actual trade/buy/sell threads that much more exposure.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:00 pm
The nature of electronic gaming has changed significantly in the last decade and now that we're all old and soft, merging the console and PC gaming areas would likely make sense.
There's a war going down between my brothers tonight
I don't want no war going down tonight
There's a war going down between my brothers tonight
I don't want no war going down tonight
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:35 pm
This is about to change dramatically. Vanilla did not deliver on ANY of its promises. Stay tuned.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:21 am
And see, that's why I thought to mention it. As a forum, OO seems to get a bit more traffic and posting. There really isn't all that much difference between the two forums other than that.coopasonic wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:29 pm There are really only two active posters on GT, at least on the gaming forums, that don't post here. Rittchard is the third that has been more GT than OO.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 2:19 am
A few years ago I wouldn't have given it a second thought. Now? I don't hate the concept of the two being merged. It would give GT a community, and potentially give OO some fresh blood. I'd hate to see this community die of the slow attrition we've been experiencing over the years. With no front page to draw people in, we rarely replace those who leave. (In ancient times GT was our sister site, for those who don't know - OO started as Gone Gold, GT started as Console Gold, a Gone Gold spinoff.)
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 2:27 am
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 2:27 am
I must be rewarded with candy bars.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:20 pm
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:32 pm
+1. I'd give it another whirl if it gets a fresh coat of paint.
Re: GamingTrend offline for a short time
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:41 am
+1. Hated the software they have been on for the last while.