Oops

The downside is we'll need a few days to get our archives back and work out the bugs,

Probably would have been better to have this happen after the election. And the collapse of the American economy. Ah well....

Yeah, what he said!

Thank goodness you are back I was having major withdrawal symptons

You incredible idiots are truly the AOL of the blogosphere. You manage to lose not only your entire current thread list, but the logins of all your commenters. I trust your advertisers will be lining up for refunds. Have you no concept of computer backup? A bunch of middle school students could run a better blog infrastructure.

Of course, the trademark dishonesty of TimeWarner will prevent us from ever learning just what happened, but I am convinced that it involved profound stupidity. Your organization is truly the journalistic equivalent of the Bush administration: arrogant, incompetent, and better forgotten.

Can we get an RSS feed again?

oops is right. to say nothing of my withdrawal issues when I couldn't get my TIME fix.

or should that read "fix on TIME"

Some days are better than others.

Josh,

You need to have that time is down page redirect to the new. People with that link did not know that things working again.

Thanks.

well gunny they've dropped the "scheduled" from the message anyway.

If you just update your bookmark, gunny, it will work okay, I think. Also, if you navigate through the time.com site, it seems to be directing properly to the newly named pages.

Of course, nobody ever does that...

And the blog links at the top are working. Losing all the precrash content, especially on a Friday, though, is not so good.

Testing moderation parameters has apparently gotten me blocked in the Joe the Plumber thread. Still here? Or am I down for the count?

My productivity doubled yesterday when you were down.

This was a royal pain. Have lost my screen name once again, as someone else has kathy. But it's still me.

The major complaint I have about this is the line that you were down for a "scheduled" reworking of the blog. It would appear this is either an outright lie or an admission of appalling incompetence, not to have notified us in advance that it was scheduled.

Don't trifle with us.

So, color this a strictly professional curiosity, but what exactly happened? Don't you all have disaster recovery servers/plans? Did anyone lose their job over this (because I know I sure as hell would have)?

And really, to echo what stillkathy said, putting up a message about 'scheduled' maintenance is just lame, especially when your servers have already been down for 18+ hours. Ain't no one out there in any industry has scheduled downtime during business hours.

And the worst part of all of this? Your maintenance message wasn't even grammatically correct. For shame.

Your bio links do not work at this time. They currently re-direct to a new account or new blog sign-up page.

New name, still a dirty Fing hippie.

I was planning to Joe Klein's Full Obama Interview transcript. Here's hoping the archives come back up sooner rather than later (the discussion thread was pretty interesting as well).

Good luck w/ the migration.