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| Posted by: Dexter
- [376211414] Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 15:21
Anybody else having trouble getting into their site and message forum? |
| | | 1 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 15:29
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Yes. Wouldn't surprise me if they are doing maintenance during the ASB, although I never saw that announced.
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| | | 2 | Dexter
ID: 376211414
Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 15:38
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Thx Guru...gotta send you some $$$
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| | | 3 | harrb2
ID: 216521414
Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 15:52
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The site has been down since 11am. Strange time for maintenance with season 2 baseball beginning thurs, and mamagers forming their teams
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| | | 4 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 18:16
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We are in the process of migrating servers. Unfortunately, this has taken longer than expected. Our technical staff is working diligently on resolving all issues. We hope to have everything back up and running soon. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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| | | 5 | harrb2
ID: 96301418
Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 19:30
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why would you do this at a busy time for your site.
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| | | 6 | Dave R
SuperDude
ID: 3010361110
Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 19:47
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Seems to working for me, other than the message boards. But I didn't try and make any trades, so....
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| | | 7 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 20:36
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I doubt if this is a busy time. I would think this would be a good time, with no games for 3 days. Certainly better than doing it on any game day.
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| | | 8 | eMets
ID: 49661420
Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 21:07
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Hey folks, I too was surprised and frustrated to see TSN site
down today (games now up, forum still down) but thought I'd
copy this message from "SSchrager -- Director of Programming
and Product Development, Sporting News.com" from his blog:
Quote: "Hey All, Just a quick update. As you've noticed, the site
has been going up an down all day. To make a long story short,
this has to do with a lot of the upgrades we've been talking
about. We just moved SN.com from 40 servers in Virginia to a
new, state-of-the-art server farm here in Charlotte. This move
is going to allow us to serve the site faster and handle a bunch
of tech stuff that you don't want to hear about, right here in our
backyard. Obviously this is a massive undertaking and there are
lots of fires to put out. In the end this is anther "growing pain"
that I deeply regret, but something we must do. We are working
around the clock to make sure the downtime, inconveniences
and problems are kept to a minimum. Thanx as always for your
support and patience.
Shawn " Unquote
Isn't it reassuring when one with such a lofty position uses fun
stuff like the 'alternate X' spelling of 'thanks'?
Thanks to Rotoguru for having an eye on the TSN stuff, it's
needed.
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| | | 9 | twolves
Dude
ID: 811161317
Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 07:46
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I still cannot get on or to the sporting news site. Is it still down?
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| | | 10 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 08:14
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It's up. There are still some formatting issues, but it seems to be functioning.
I think it was up all day yesterday as well.
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| | | 11 | twolves
ID: 161542014
Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 14:03
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I must have done something as I keep getting Domain register.com when I do the sportingnews.com. The one time I got in, I could not do anything and when I signed out that came up and everytime I go back to try to get back in I get the above site instead of sporting news.
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| | | 12 | Little M
ID: 129492211
Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 15:27
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I was unable to get onto the site during the day yesterday and today. I was able to get on the site last night from home. When I tried today, it said the site was down for routine maintainance and should be up this morning and to e-mail any urgent transactions to them and they would make sure they were recorded.
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| | | 13 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 13:45
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Seems to be down now.
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| | | 14 | deraynman
ID: 86341714
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 15:34
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This is laughable. I've never seen so many problems. I hope they get it up before 7pm, I still have trades to make but I don't know how much cash I have.
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| | | 15 | deepsnapper
Leader
ID: 017103420
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 16:59
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It's not just the game, it's the Sporting News MLB Scoreboard, the Fantasy Source, the whole shooting match.
My guess is the move of baseball over the weekend to different servers probably for football season didn't go so well after last night. Must've had a choke point.
Does anyone have the TSN email address for "emergency" trades? I'd appreciate it. I saved the $$ for Lee to Lincecum & don't want to skip him.
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| | | 16 | hills
ID: 76261713
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 17:15
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Deepsnapper--here it is
escalation@sportingnews.com
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| | | 17 | deepsnapper
Leader
ID: 017103420
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:01
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thx hills.
They're trying to come up, but I'm sending the trades in anyway in about 15 min.
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| | | 18 | hills
ID: 76261713
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:07
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Deepsnapper--no problem--I'm going to send my trades in a few minutes also--how do you know they are trying to come up
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| | | 19 | smallwhirled
ID: 336141717
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:14
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I can't even remember which players are on my alternate team to do the necessary trades.
I've been trying for over an hour and a half with no luck. I'm pretty used to this though, TSN always sucks.
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| | | 20 | eMets
ID: 206201717
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:20
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hills, maybe snapper is seeing what I'm seeing, which is that I've
gotten some pages to load, but it takes 2 minutes to load each
page. Just main SN, main Fantasy page, and even one time the
forum page loaded once, but on none of these was i able to
successfully log in.
So how do you think they'll handle about 25,000 escalation emails?
mine are sent
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| | | 21 | smallwhirled
ID: 336141717
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:26
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No clue, but they better accept them.
I'm picking up Lince today, but I don't even know how far I have to downgrade. Can't even remember which downgrade candidates I have. Luckily I do remember D Wright as a guy I've wanted to dump for weeks.
They better accept all of these. This is unacceptable.
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| | | 22 | hills
ID: 76261713
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:27
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eMets--if they have 10 customers left after this disaster it will be a miracle--I'm a very patient person but I've had all I can take--I will not play their football or hoops games this year
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| | | 23 | hills
ID: 76261713
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:38
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I think they are up--just got into 1 of my D&T teams
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| | | 24 | Pesky Pole
ID: 06481717
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:48
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Can't get into Ultimate, Challenge, or forums.
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| | | 25 | hills
ID: 76261713
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:48
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D&T is working but I can not access Ultimate
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| | | 26 | hills
ID: 76261713
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:50
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Must be bringing the games back 1 at a time--I can now also access golf
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| | | 27 | Pesky Pole
ID: 06481717
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:51
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Probably stock car next.
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| | | 28 | deepsnapper
Leader
ID: 017103420
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:55
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{20} I was able to get into my team page and all the way to the "Buyer List" page, but when I input parameters to look at "P", it started the Loading, please wait... and it just keeps trying to reload the damn page to no effect w/o me trying so I end up with dozens of pages logged in my history.
I don't know why I'm surprized, it's been this way at the MLB ASB this millenium .....
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| | | 29 | Pesky Pole
ID: 06481717
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 18:58
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They will still blame it on server migration and say it is not the games.
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| | | 30 | hills
ID: 76261713
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 19:03
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Maybe they should clear their cache & cookies--thats what they always tell us to do--ha ha
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| | | 31 | BigBobE
ID: 3630217
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 19:54
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From tsn
Unfortunately, due to system problems, Salary Cap Baseball Challenge Season 2 had to be taken down indefinitely. We are honoring all escalation requests that were filled out correctly and sent by 7:15 eastern time. We realize this is disappointing, but it is vital in order to get the site stable for the rest of the season. The price update will still take place even if the game is not up. Because prices will be changing, we will not be taking escalation requests for tomorrow. We hope to resume trading at some point tomorrow. We sincerely apologize for this and are doing everything we can to correct it.
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| | | 32 | harrb2
ID: 516151719
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 20:15
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Tsn crashed their site by diverting servers for fantasy football which does not start for 6 weeks.
jmo
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| | | 33 | Pesky Pole
ID: 26301719
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 20:30
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"Tell your friends how season 2 will start smoothly after all the corrections were made to enhance features like live scoring"
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| | | 34 | Dexter
ID: 376211414
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 23:14
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Guru...please, please save us!!!! If you would just come up with a new game site yourself......
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| | | 35 | eMets
ID: 206201717
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 23:29
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another TSN response, from moderator "bernieh" on his blog:
http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/bernieh/195290
and again SSchrager's blog has "updates":
http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/SSchrager/195157/
it's not good
"Our Director of Technology and Systems Administrator booked
a last minute, early morning flight to Virginia this morning in
order to recover all of the old hardware. The server that handles
the baseball database that runs that game didn't react well to
the upgrade. We tried for 24 hours to fix the problem remotely.
When that didn't work, we decided to take drastic measures. As
we speak, they are on the road, in a rented truck, driving back to
Charlotte with 40 servers from Virginia. This way we can have all
of the hardware here.
They got a later start, but they will be back tonight and will try
and get the baseball server up ASAP. The plan is to have
everything back up very early tomorrow, but as you can see,
$#!+ happens.
We are moving heaven and earth to make this right. Stay tuned. I
know the Fantasy guys are also working round the clock and
have been posting updates."
Pathetic, if you ask me. A RENTED VAN?????
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| | | 36 | money4later
ID: 2111213116
Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 23:43
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I can see it now as they pull up to the building in that rented van. The doors fly open and one guy gets out and says, "Hey bud, let's party!". LMAO
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| | | 37 | IraLives
ID: 23561722
Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 00:22
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I'm guessing that TSN's "Director of Technology and Systems Administrator" position will be advertised sometime this fall...
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| | | 38 | Dexter
ID: 376211414
Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 00:22
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They say reality is stranger than fiction. These "Keystone Kops" prove that! LOL
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| | | 39 | Dexter
ID: 376211414
Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 00:28
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Anybody else miss Smallworld?
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| | | 40 | reebbertxx
ID: 4629181
Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 02:29
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Guru...please, please save us!!!! If you would just come up with a new game site yourself...... We can only hope.
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| | | 41 | deepsnapper
Leader
ID: 017103420
Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 10:39
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Interesting though, when I was able to see my Season 2 team page yesterday, I had 5 trades in a no trade league. Do you think the system blew up because they can't make a 5 into a 4 equal out? It's always the simple things that bite you in the butt.
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| | | 42 | soetal1
ID: 56301818
Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 19:30
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Is TSN message boards still down?
What a joke this game has become.
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| | | 43 | Pesky Pole
ID: 26301719
Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 19:44
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They are probably keeping the message board down so we can't post all our complaints as it might crash the server.
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| | | 44 | RogueWing16
ID: 26381819
Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 21:03
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Boom there goes the dynamite. Can't imagine the fireworks on the TSN baseball boards once they come back up. It's gonna be ugly.
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| | | 45 | Dexter
ID: 376211414
Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 00:22
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This is unreal! How can SN expect to have anybody playing their games after this latest disaster?
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| | | 47 | Pesky Pole
ID: 26301719
Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 13:20
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No live scoring. TSN is crap.
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| | | 48 | mojomike
ID: 50621913
Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 14:02
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Hahahah SN is the best!!!
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| | | 49 | money4later
ID: 2111213116
Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 14:13
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I wonder if their rented van broke down...
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| | | 50 | RogueWing16
ID: 26381819
Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 17:13
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Live scoring back up. Missing a few players though.
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| | | 51 | EFerrier
ID: 50621913
Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 21:16
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Go tell all your friends, the game will be stable for season 2 as it was the last two months of season 1.
EFerrier,
General Manager of Sporting News Fantasy games (by default).
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| | | 52 | Dexter
ID: 376211414
Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 23:19
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Re 51....What's he mean "by default"?
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| | | 53 | IraLives
ID: 23561722
Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 23:33
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#51 = Likely troll post... Unless EFerreira can't spell his own name...
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| | | 54 | mojomike
ID: 50621913
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 01:29
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I was just quoting what Eric of SN said before the season started...figured everyone would have a good laugh, didn't think people would miss the sarcasm and really think it was the GM.
Dexter-
They have a new GM each year at SN, it is a short-lived job. First it was Jeff G. a couple years ago, then kings33 lasted about a year, now Eric is in. Soon it will be Darnott!
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| | | 55 | hills
ID: 76261713
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 10:51
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Anyone able to get on to the site?
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| | | 56 | EFerreira
ID: 16662011
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 12:06
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Announcement:
Since everyone here at SN is trying so hard and we are so proud of ourselves, we will not be enabling the message forums again this year. This will prevent any whiners from posting anything negative about TS. If anyone has any complaints about Season 2 startup, live scoring or any other issues, go f yourself. Eric
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| | | 57 | soetal1
ID: 526142011
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 12:14
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I just got this from the real 'Eric'
"We completely understand and are sincerely apologetic. However, getting the games to where we need them is a higher priority right now. When we feel comfortable, we will bring the boards back up.
Sincerely,
Eric
SN Member Services"
Still not having message boards up there is a big bs.
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| | | 58 | IraLives
ID: 57443170
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 12:24
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Team pages are accessible for Ultimate, at least mine are, but the forums (of course!) are still offline. At this point one gets the sense that TSN is not planning on enabling the forums any time soon. Actually, not much to be gained (for them) if they do. They will be bashed unmercifully in the baseball forums the moment they come up, with a lot of people saying they are done with TSN forever. If that's the case, no need for them to risk the server load on people who won't be back. Not saying it's the smart thing to do, but I could see the reasoning...
Actually, Ultimate without the standard message board manipulation that goes on is quite a different game. I sort of wish they was a way to play it without the boards all the time. I'm sure someone like Kevin Correia, for example, would have never gone above 2% ownership if it wasn't for the message boards...
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| | | 59 | anon
ID: 45611915
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 13:52
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Ultimate has around 6000+ teams, with an average of 4-5 teams for each owner , so it is something like 1300-1500 Owners playing the game.
I do believe ( as an active TSN ultimate forum user) thar around 200-300 owners use the forum, so it is less than 15% owners...
I believe it is not enough to manipulate the market with trends that comes from the forum
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| | | 60 | tsn veteran
ID: 176312012
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 14:10
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>59 obviously a newbie.
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| | | 61 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 14:18
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If 15% of owners went in a similar direction, the price change would be very large.
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| | | 62 | BigBobE
ID: 3630217
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 14:56
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The folks found out they could tell TSN to f-off at the 411 Blog
http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/SN_FantasyGame
TSN turned it off...
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| | | 63 | KrazyKoalaBears
ID: 721308
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 15:57
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PR Nightmare in 3, 2, 1...
I used to play a fully simulated soccer game online and, occasionally, they'd have some MAJOR issues. To me, they did two things right in EVERY instance.
1. They refunded all paying members an amount equal to the amount of downtime. So, if you paid $30/month and the service was down for 3 days (which happened), you got $3 credited to your account. Seems trivial, but the fact that it was done automatically and you didn't have to ask for it actually made me feel good about their customer service.
2. They CONSTANTLY added updates about what was going on. They explained the issues, what the plan was, and if things got messed up, they'd regroup and explain the new issues and new plan. They were smart about it and, on several occasions, I actually felt bad for them and wished I could help.
Maybe TSN could learn a few things...
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| | | 64 | soetal1
ID: 526142011
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 16:45
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message boards up & running
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| | | 65 | harrb2
ID: 596262021
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 22:27
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down again
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| | | 66 | eMets
ID: 536552021
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 22:55
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You can't make this stuff up!! 5 hours of full functionality, followed
by a full system meltdown. You'll never see the forums up ever
again. They can't chance it on the server load. Pathetic.
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| | | 67 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 23:07
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What'll happen the weekend leading up to the first NFL game?
Set your rosters early!
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| | | 68 | Dexter
ID: 376211414
Tue, Jul 21, 2009, 00:32
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And just imagine what'll happen when Rotohog takes over......: > (
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| | | 69 | deepsnapper
Leader
ID: 017103420
Tue, Jul 21, 2009, 15:33
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It's been slow since noon CT. I keep getting the "server's are busy message". It has to be people joining football as the first game isn't until 7PM ET.
[67] You're right and I think there's Thursday & Saturday games along with 2 MNF games so the whole 1st weekend is going to be crazy.
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| | | 70 | deraynman
ID: 4860248
Fri, Jul 24, 2009, 09:00
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down again
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| | | 71 | IraLives
ID: 57443170
Fri, Jul 24, 2009, 16:47
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And down all weekend! How will I find out who the next best 3 start hold is? Or whether the masses will continue to trade in their Sandovals for a Mitsubishi Montero?
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| | | 72 | thebonesmuggler
ID: 06232618
Sun, Jul 26, 2009, 19:23
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"This isnt related to rotohog" sure...
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| | | 73 | deraynman
ID: 1175019
Sat, Aug 01, 2009, 10:50
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Is it me or is it impossible to access your teams? I go to my teams or ulitmate and my team is not listed.
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