Remember the early-to-mid-nineties and those really annoying "Under Construction" gifs that lots of people thought were the cleverest things on the planet? The ones which resulted in a bunch of seldom-updated homepages all starting out, "As always, this page is under construction"? Yeah, I hated those too. (Look, I fidget like this constantly. Stop looking at me like that.)
So. See. You... y'know that downtime we had earlier?
No? Ah. I see. You were sleeping. Well, that's a good thing. You needed that nap, you know, after that thing this weekend.
Well, we had some downtime earlier. And that was just, like, it. So, there's some stuff we have to do behind the scenes and under the hood. Important stuff. Like move to a new hosting service provider. And make sure it all works before we flip the switch. And mow the lawn.
If you don't see logorrhaea for a couple of days? Yeah. It's not you. That lawn? It's really bad. All overgrown, and full of deprecated markup, and kind of patchy. And we really don't want to go throwing new posts onto the lawn before we have to mow it.
EDIT: Don't forget that you can use the Snarkoleptics LiveJournal community if you happen to find the site unavailable, or want to start a new discussion with others. You need an LJ account to make a new post to the community, but those can be had for free.
Also, comments you make here from this point onwards, until the move is complete, will not appear on the new site.
So I take it this means we shouldn't expect any Snarks for the next couple of days?
Rob H.
That struck me as self-evident, but yes. We certainly won't be making any sort of extensive posts that we'd like to keep around with, say, comment threads intact and such whatnot. We have a usable snapshot of the database to hand, and we'd rather not deviate too strongly from it.
If Websnark goes down, you can get a fix at the Snarkoleptics community. You can get there by clicking my name.
Bookmark now for future outages.
I'll make an edit to the post, mckenzee.
And... this is the first official test of the new website's commenting system.
Christ, I hope it works.
-- AND THEN, YOU PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A TOADY, DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO TO YOUR --
...oh! We're back?
Alright, guys, you know what that means - pants are mandatory again.
Everyone out of the pool!
Uhm... were they mandatory before? Definitely curtails some of my late-night commenting now...
Not really - heck, I've commented pantsless before. I just like the inherent humor value of the phrase, "Pants are mandatory again."
No patty-fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times. Hold on to your hats.
Whee, it's fun to be able to comment again (somehow typekey wasn't letting me play).
Hey! I made it. Sweet. And I didn't even have to change my cookie shtuff.
Cool. Goes to check on number of drinks that calls for coffee. Gotta be in the hundreds.
Never understood drinks that call for Energy Drinks as part of the recipe.
Dancing is Forbidden.
Dan-Dancing is Forbidden.