Author Topic: Embarrassing Error Page (Read 24559 times)

The Mighty Jungle · « **on:** November 30, 2011, 17:46 »

G... almighty... what an embarrassingly unprofessional Error Page.

What's going on now?

aeonf · « **Reply #1 on:** November 30, 2011, 17:47 »

Allow me to quote:
The glitch monsters are at work down in the dark internety room, but they sent a note up that said: “Dear You, Me fix broken thing. Sorry for trouble. Love, Monsters.”

They, and the site, will be back up soon. In the meantime, we’d like to offer you 10% off your next purchase of 50 or more iStock credits using the coupon code below.

traveler1116 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 30, 2011, 17:48 »

I agree. I'll never understand why fixes aren't done on the weekend, november is the busiest month of the year (at least for me) and these are business hours still for the west coast. And when I click on the twitter link it says the page doesn't exist.

rubyroo · « **Reply #3 on:** November 30, 2011, 17:50 »

Yep. Anyone who didn't see the 'we thought it had been hacked' screen. Check out iStock right now.

The Mighty Jungle · « **Reply #4 on:** November 30, 2011, 17:51 »

this wasn't a planned take-down... this was a crash!

gostwyck · « **Reply #5 on:** November 30, 2011, 17:52 »

Quote from: traveler1116 on November 30, 2011, 17:48

I agree. I'll never understand why fixes aren't done on the weekend, november is the busiest month of the year (at least for me) and these are business hours still for the west coast.

Because Istock don't work at the weekend and the office is closed.

jjneff · « **Reply #6 on:** November 30, 2011, 17:53 »

So naive! I mean there are no words for this complete melt down!!!

traveler1116 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 30, 2011, 17:53 »

Quote from: aethelflaed on November 30, 2011, 17:51

this wasn't a planned take-down... this was a crash!

It says down for maintenance, that doesn't sound like a crash to me.

The Mighty Jungle · « **Reply #8 on:** November 30, 2011, 17:54 »

if it were a planned thing, they would have immediately put up a professionally designed Error Page... like they used to.....

sure they are going to say down for maintenance.... it would be too embarrassing to admit our site just crashed....

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #9 on:** November 30, 2011, 17:56 »

Quote from: traveler1116 on November 30, 2011, 17:53

Quote from: aethelflaed on November 30, 2011, 17:51
this wasn't a planned take-down... this was a crash!
It says down for maintenance, that doesn't sound like a crash to me.

It says the glitch monsters are in the internety room; that's a crashy-washy.

ShadySue · « **Reply #10 on:** November 30, 2011, 17:56 »

Quote from: aethelflaed on November 30, 2011, 17:46

G... almighty... what an embarrassingly unprofessional Error Page.

What's going on now?

They seem to have lost the CSS link.

LesHoward · « **Reply #11 on:** November 30, 2011, 17:57 »

I thought you were joking, but ... no.

The Mighty Jungle · « **Reply #12 on:** November 30, 2011, 17:58 »

>They seem to have lost the CSS link.

yes, bad path to maint-screen.css

imageegami · « **Reply #13 on:** November 30, 2011, 18:00 »

Quote from: ShadySue on November 30, 2011, 17:56

Quote from: aethelflaed on November 30, 2011, 17:46
G... almighty... what an embarrassingly unprofessional Error Page.

What's going on now?

They seem to have lost the CSS link.

Lobo probably fell into the spinning gears and gummed up the crankwobble.

SNP · « **Reply #14 on:** November 30, 2011, 18:03 »

Quote from: jjneff on November 30, 2011, 17:53

So naive! I mean there are no words for this complete melt down!!!

~~naive~~....personally I would have used a different adjective. but otherwise you have it just about right

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #15 on:** November 30, 2011, 18:09 »

Quote from: SNP on November 30, 2011, 18:03

Quote from: jjneff on November 30, 2011, 17:53
So naive! I mean there are no words for this complete melt down!!!

~~naive~~....personally I would have used a different adjective. but otherwise you have it just about right

Will you settle for "juvenile"?

The Mighty Jungle · « **Reply #16 on:** November 30, 2011, 18:09 »

“Dear You, Me fix broken thing. Sorry for trouble. Love, Monsters.”

Sheeesh.....

I now understand why istockphoto.com has had so many glitches lately... the developers are 1st graders

gostwyck · « **Reply #17 on:** November 30, 2011, 18:10 »

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on November 30, 2011, 17:56

It says the glitch monsters are in the internety room; that's a crashy-washy.

It is __ and a major fucky-wucky too.

ShadySue · « **Reply #18 on:** November 30, 2011, 18:11 »

What are the language 'links' at the top meant to do? Nothing, as far as I can see.

ProArtwork · « **Reply #19 on:** November 30, 2011, 18:11 »

Is Jay working on it again?

ProArtwork · « **Reply #20 on:** November 30, 2011, 18:13 »

Screen grab it and send it to cnet for a Headline news!

cobalt · « **Reply #21 on:** November 30, 2011, 18:14 »

I don´t know what to say. I seriously hope the site was hacked. I´d prefer that to what I am seeing.

The competition must be opening champagne bottles tonight.

I´m already getting the first concerned emails from other members of the German forum who can´t believe that istock would be so unprofessional.

john_woodcock · « **Reply #22 on:** November 30, 2011, 18:16 »

They've changed it now to something marginally less toe-curling.

"Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

cobalt · « **Reply #23 on:** November 30, 2011, 18:19 »

Much better.

contrastaddict · « **Reply #24 on:** November 30, 2011, 18:23 »

On the last day of the month to, I was having solid sales today. This is such a joke, how is a site that earns millions of dollars a day unable to operate.

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