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istock downtime 9/4

Started by EmberMike, September 04, 2012, 21:07

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ShadySue

Quote from: gostwyck on September 05, 2012, 02:12
Quote from: Reef on September 05, 2012, 01:22
Quote from: gostwyck on September 05, 2012, 01:17
Breathtakingly piss-poor design in that the text explanation of the issue, in several languages but in grey colour, cannot actually be read against the (same colour) background. Who are the amateurs that 'design' these things? Extraordinary.

have we calibrated our monitor recently

Irrelevant. The same colour is the same colour, contrast-wise, however you calibrate the monitor.

Hmmm, nowadays, I often have trouble in reading text in deezine magazines (so I've stopped getting them  :) ) but I have no problem in reading that black text on the very pale grey background - even without my varifocals on.

cmannphoto

Quote from: gostwyck on September 05, 2012, 02:12
Quote from: Reef on September 05, 2012, 01:22
Quote from: gostwyck on September 05, 2012, 01:17
Breathtakingly piss-poor design in that the text explanation of the issue, in several languages but in grey colour, cannot actually be read against the (same colour) background. Who are the amateurs that 'design' these things? Extraordinary.

have we calibrated our monitor recently

Irrelevant. The same colour is the same colour, contrast-wise, however you calibrate the monitor.
You need to check you browser settings or something because it is fine on my screen


STILLFX

Why does he need two red pens? :o

cmannphoto

Quote from: STILLFX on September 05, 2012, 02:31
Why does he need two red pens? :o
To note all the bugs on the site?  ;D

ShadySue

Quote from: gostwyck on September 05, 2012, 02:12
Quote from: Reef on September 05, 2012, 01:22
Quote from: gostwyck on September 05, 2012, 01:17
Breathtakingly piss-poor design in that the text explanation of the issue, in several languages but in grey colour, cannot actually be read against the (same colour) background. Who are the amateurs that 'design' these things? Extraordinary.

have we calibrated our monitor recently

Irrelevant. The same colour is the same colour, contrast-wise, however you calibrate the monitor.

Huh?
Isn't a grey strip used precisely to check if your contrast is correct, ie that you can discern all the different shades of grey (not 50, of course), especially the ones at either end?

STILLFX

Quote from: cmannphoto on September 05, 2012, 02:36
Quote from: STILLFX on September 05, 2012, 02:31
Why does he need two red pens? :o
To note all the bugs on the site?  ;D

Lol, true.

Somebody needs to let Jay know his blue pen is leaking  ;D

lirch

Quote from: STILLFX on September 05, 2012, 02:39
Quote from: cmannphoto on September 05, 2012, 02:36
Quote from: STILLFX on September 05, 2012, 02:31
Why does he need two red pens? :o
To note all the bugs on the site?  ;D

Lol, true.

Somebody needs to let Jay know his blue pen is leaking  ;D
Yes! Jay, clean your nose too please.

Pixart

Quote from: cmannphoto on September 05, 2012, 02:28You need to check you browser settings or something because it is fine on my screen

Yup, you are probably right.  This is what I see (or don't see).

cmannphoto

#33
The Glitch Monsters has eaten Jay

hoi ha

Quote from: Pixart on September 05, 2012, 03:15
Quote from: cmannphoto on September 05, 2012, 02:28You need to check you browser settings or something because it is fine on my screen

Yup, you are probably right.  This is what I see (or don't see).

Same 4 me ...

oh and Mr istock "emberMike" - just to let you know - it is peak time for half the world - the world does not revolve around western canada - it is Tuesday smack dab in the work day and deadline time so sorry, you screw your buyers in half the world  - which means I suppose that your buyers in Austral/asia are so few you can afford to alienate them by not considering their "peak time" - otherwise yes Sunday would make sense for downtime - which tells me secondly you are not growing in the part of the world that is doing best financially and is growing fastest. Ominous for istock.

How badly can you run this site I wonder? SS never ever has these issues.

STILLFX

Quote from: EmberMike on September 04, 2012, 21:07

Since this isn't a widely publicized site outage and not very many people read the istock forums anymore, it's worth a note here before widespread panic ensues.

istock will be down today starting at 3:00 MST, just under 1 hour from the time of this posting. The outage should last a couple of hours.

...couple of hours... seems like more  :D

KB

Quote from: STILLFX on September 05, 2012, 03:43
Quote from: EmberMike on September 04, 2012, 21:07

Since this isn't a widely publicized site outage and not very many people read the istock forums anymore, it's worth a note here before widespread panic ensues.

istock will be down today starting at 3:00 MST, just under 1 hour from the time of this posting. The outage should last a couple of hours.

...couple of hours... seems like more  :D
It's been about 4 hours ... so far.

Even if they get it back up in less than 24 hours, how many days before it will actually be usable? Oh, I'm being too pessimistic, aren't I?

Reef

Quote from: Pixart on September 05, 2012, 03:15
Quote from: cmannphoto on September 05, 2012, 02:28You need to check you browser settings or something because it is fine on my screen

Yup, you are probably right.  This is what I see (or don't see).

if you are using Internet Explorer what do you expect!

back up now anyway

click_click

Oh great, they moved the bottom menu to the left now. What's gonna be next now, back to the top right again?  ???

I think I have never seen a web site where the cart icon is located on the bottom right. Who designed this cr@p?

Digital66

Jay is gone.  Just a blank page now  :-\

STILLFX

Quote from: Digital66 on September 05, 2012, 04:39
Jay is gone.  Just a blank page now  :-\


Maybe Jay broke it  :o

KB

I guess I was too pessimistic. Just 4 hours, and it seems to be working ok (a bit sluggish). But I'm confident some problems will show up.

It's weird to see file prices in $, though.

Digital66

I see nothing.  Firefox, Google Crome, Explorer....  Nothing , nada... >:(

STILLFX

Quote from: Digital66 on September 05, 2012, 04:50
I see nothing.  Firefox, Google Crome, Explorer....  Nothing , nada... >:(

Same here ???

Digital66

Could someone please post a message in iStock forum and let them know some of us see nothing but a blank page?   :'(

Thanks.

Freedom

I have logged in, and the sales were not too bad for a day like this.

STILLFX

Quote from: Digital66 on September 05, 2012, 04:56
Could someone please post a message in iStock forum and let them know some of us see nothing but a blank page?   :'(

Thanks.

I get this...

KB

They seem to be using Twitter to debug problems, so that's probably the best place to post issues.

Apparently there's a problem with the shopping cart not working unless you add the EL option. Sounds good to me.  ;)

traveler1116

They said restart your browser and try again.

Digital66

Quote from: traveler1116 on September 05, 2012, 05:11
They said restart your browser and try again.
I've done that.  three different computers and a tablet.... nada.