Hey everyone,
Just wanted to quickly post and let you know that we’re aware of the problems with viewing TSE’s videos. This is an issue with Blip.tv (the site where the video files are hosted), and all we know is that it’s related to a connectivity outage. I’ve been getting a lot of messages asking if people need to update video drivers and Flash, but it’s definitely on Blip’s end and will hopefully be resolved very soon. This would be a great time to sign up for TSE’s Forum, check out the written movie reviews, or have a look at the other site features you may have missed.
Thanks for your patience!
- Scarlett
Hey everyone,
Scarlett here! Just wanted to update about the missing sections of the website. The great news is that everything has been reformatted for the new site design, with the exception of the written movie reviews (I’m getting to ‘em, dammit!) So be sure to check out these TSE features:
Photo & Fan Art Gallery
Dean Talks Anime (new review added: Step Up Love Story)
Linkara vs. Dr. Insano: The Comic, Vol. 1
Linkara vs. Dr. Insano: The Comic, Vol. 2
Bent Spoon Webcomic
Also, I accidentally left the Spoony Experiment Store link off the menu (*facepalm*) and some people were asking about Spoony’s t-shirts in the comments. So go there and buy some sweet TSE themed goods. Chicks will dig ‘em, I promise. ;-)
There have been some complaints about the scrolling due to the comments all showing up on the same page. Unfortunately there’s a bug with the framework that prevents us from paginating the comments effectively, but hopefully that will be updated within the next few weeks. For now, you can quickly jump to the comment form by clicking on the “add one” link right above the first comment (”X comments… read them below or add one”).
And if you’re not a member of TSE’s Forums yet, get in here! We don’t bite … Hard.
The domain name changes appear to have propagated, so if you’re seeing this, you’re on the new server!
Major, MAJOR thanks to Mike Michaud, my webmistress Scarlett, and anyone else who had a hand in helping this transition go smoothly.
I’ve looked things over tenatively and they appear to be working properly. I say APPEAR, but there are undoubtedly some glitches. I’ve re-enabled the forum, but some data loss there was inevitable. If you created your account within the last week, you may have to re-register, and some posts in recent days may have been lost. If you spot any major errors, unusual behavior, or missing functionality, you can let me know at admin@spoonyexperiment.com
Right now we’re still using the “emergency” Wordpress template that Scarlett created to appease Dreamhost, so things aren’t in their final form yet. The written movie reviews are once again off the site because of this problem. I know it’s been more than a year since they’ve been working properly, but hopefully we’ll have a much faster way of converting them to a compatible format soon. The photo gallery is also down, I think.
Bear with us. Scarlett and I hope to be tweeking and fine-tuning the site’s appearance and functionality, and I’m still working feverishly on the new “epic review.” I probably won’t have it done by the end of the week like I hoped because of the server issues, but it’ll be done as soon as possible.
Hey everyone! This is Scarlett – also known as Spoony’s woman, TSE’s web mistress, and the whip-crackin’ fan seducer wrangler from the forums. I’ve just finished many feverish hours of damage control, and I think it’s safe to say that TSE is back up and running again … For now. [Cue thunder clap of doom.]
The written Movie Reviews, the Photo Gallery, and Dean Talks Anime will be unavailable for a while, as all of those sections require major updating (and in some cases, complete redesigning) now that TSE is running on all new coding. (Note to Dreamhost: I am going to PUNCH you in the SOUL!)
We’re going to be moving the site to a dedicated server sometime in the near future, probably starting with the forums, but we’ll let everyone know in advance of the changeover. In the event that Dreamhost hasn’t finished sodomizing TSE with Big Daddy’s drill, you may want to follow TheSpoonyOne on Twitter, just in case something happens to our hosting account before we make the switch.
Thanks to everyone for your patience, and apologies to those who were alarmed by Spoony’s last post. Looks like I really do have some skills outside of the bedroom after all! Awwwwww yeah. ;-)
The Spoony Experiment is going off the air indefinitely.
Dreamhost really jacked up the site and I don’t know if Scarlett can fix it. She’s brilliant but there might not be much she can do when some clown takes a fire axe to her templates and HTML.
So, fair warning. This ship is sinking. Scarlett will probably be taking the site offline as soon as tonight, and I don’t know when it’ll be back. If there are any forum posts you want to save, back them up yourself. I have no idea how this is going to turn out.
Edit: I know many of you are frustrated with what seems like bait-and-switching. There’s a lot going on in my life that you don’t know about, and because it all came up so suddenly, I decided to drop everything– Ripper, Terror TRAX, SWAT– and finish a special review. Then all of this crap with Dreamhost came up, and now I have to scramble to fix this particular disaster. This isn’t some stunt, and it’s not another example of classic procrastinating Spoony. This is a legitimate shitstorm, and I’m doing my best to weather it. My site is falling apart, and I’m not sure if I can fix it.
Even if I do move to a new server, it’ll probably end up being a $320/month dedicated server, and I seriously can’t afford it at this juncture. This site just does not produce that kind of revenue.
