June 18, 2005

  •  0 eprops – 1 comment

    Dear Xanga,
    I thought I’d leave you a comment. Remember them? Likle Rip van Winkle, I woke up this morning and everything was different. No comments on Xanga. No joy in Mudville. Comments? I woke up and they were gone. Absent without leave. They’ve been misplaced. The service is not available. You’re working on the problem, and it could take 12 hours.We are to expect an indeterminate delay before we can communicate.  I know I had more comments on the entry below. Now it says one, and I can’t get to it. None of my links in the Interesting posts from the past column work. The guestbook doesn’t work. Nothing works.
    People are upset. They are blogging about it. Some don’t understand. Some are parodying your updates.
    If I were a bit more paranoid than I already am, I would swear that you are doing this deliberately, Xanga. Just to show us who’s boss. All of a sudden the feature that promotes individuality is disabled. I have a terrible suspicion a lot of “comments” were surreptitiously erased on the way to Cyber Limbo too. How do we interpret this? You are very cryptic in your message to us. Every thing will be all right, you soothe, but still you cut out our tongues.

    Saturday, June 18, 2005

     COMMENTS

    We know, we know – comments have been down for too long!!

    (Are comments ever going to come back? MFN)

    Rather than wait to hear back from our vendors on how to easily recover the comments, we’re just going to re-enable commenting.

    (What happened to the comments? Why did you let your vendor take them? Does re-enable mean turn it on. That would be nice.You should be able to “turn the comments on by inserting some blogger code in our sites, and archiving the comments pages.  MFN)

    We’ll be restoring comments from a backup over the next 12 hours.  It will take time for your comments to re-appear on your site!  Please bear with us – it will take some time, but we figure that this way… at least we can all use the site in the meantime.

    (It’s taken some time already. I divide my time on Xanga, like everybody else between posting entries, reading comments, and posting comments. If you deleted the comments by mistake, then why can’t you just enable the comment posting? One is an archive, the other is a process. What next? Is my email going to be disabled? Then the search engine will start sending me where it wants me to go. MFN)

    We’re working around the clock to get the comments back onto site ASAP.  We’re very sorry for this, and will keep you posted on updates as soon as we have them!

    UPDATE 12:45 pm, EST: It’s taking longer than we had hoped to re-activate comments.  Our first plan didn’t work, but we have some alternative paths we’re taking now.  As soon as we have a sense of timeframe, we’ll post an update with more details.

    (Our first plan didn’t work. ???? Since when do you need a “plan” to reinstall some code on your servers. Are we being afflicted with a virus? What are “alternative paths?” Are you selling Xanga to LiveJournal or something? Or did Google buy you. MFN)

    All sorts of scenarios are playing themselves out, and I can’t comment to anyone but you. I’m not giving you any eprops, either.

    I know you know you’ve done some crazy things, Xanga. We trust you, and this thing with the lack of “comments” really makes no sense. You need a “timeframe”. We might have irretreivably lost our comments, Xanga, but please just flip the switch, insert some code, and let us comment now.

    Xanga without comments is like a computer without a keyboard.
    Xanga without comments is like an orchestra without a conductor
    Xanga without comments is like a phone without a receiver
    Xanga without comments is like a blind man with a mean golf swing
    Xanga without comments is like a bowl of soup without the bowl
    Xangs without comments is like blogger, and even they have comments now.

    And they’re working. In fact, you can comment on this entry HERE.

    Yours very truly,
    Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool

Comments (14)

  • Thank you Mike for your wonderful comments on today’s poem, (egad “Comments” are actually working?!):eek: The poem’s just reflecting a thing i’m going through at the moment; trying to sort out my feelings, listening to my Native American music, trying to find a center to things again, trying to answer my questions, and not really able to. And in a way, that poem becomes a prayer of a sort. Your words encourage me, thank you for them. I trully mourn not being able to read all your previous comments. Times like now i would go back to read them, and comfort myself, drawing courage and happiness from them.

    Thanks to for all your words above to Xanga too, your post today hit the nail on the head perfectly. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” comes to mind! And i really thank you for giving me back my ‘tongue’ so that i could vent a bit on your Xanga Comments site. I needed that, bless you. Grey… what a perfect choice of color for your today’s post, considering the uncertainty of the situation on the server.

    take care,
    ~Lynxkatt

  • Well, I’d love to see your comment on my latest poem, but unfortunetly there are still comment ‘problems’. Anyway, hope you are having a wonderful weekend and I must say, I love the picture at the top of this post. :)

  • I am surprised by how much Xanga’s problems annoyed me over the past few days.  I must be taking this blogging thing awfully seriously. . .anyway, it’s nice to be able to comment again, and I enjoyed reading your commentary on the updates–very clever!  BTW–you’ve posted some wonderful photos lately!  I always enjoy coming here to see what you’ve dished up for us.  Take care~

  • :sunny: Sometimes you have to lose something to know how much it means to you. I was like that this weekend. I found mimiwi’s comment on my site and was so relieved!!! Wow!

  • :goodjob: nice take on a bad situation…. :fun: it’s amazing how much it felt like we were speechless w/o the ability to comment… interesting experiment… hummmm….:heartbeat:

  • First the server goes off on my computer and I get it back on and then Xanga won’t let me comment….Now all that is just too much for my sagging self-confidence.

  • :sunny::sunny::sunny::sunny::sunny::sunny:

    It’s alive~~~~   It’s alive~~~~~~

  • Hello mike . I just joined this blogring . I’m not really a writer but I joined anyway ! :spinning:

    I love your entry and the picture and captions cracked me up . I hate the comment’s are lost? I mean where are they ? One of my Xanga friend’s said ‘ where our the comment’s , gone to xanga heaven’? Who knows maybe the mouse ate them ??

    Nice post above .

    Take Care

    Peace and Love :wave:

  • Without feedback I have no reason to post (which is not true for everyone). But this is one reason why xanga is considered “far less than equal” in the blog world, they are: to quote a couple of reviews: “technically incompetent.”

    And, you know, the really never even apologize (or compensate paying customers) when they screw up.

  • We all felt as thought we had a limb missing, didn’t we? LOL.
    Sandy

  • Most definately, Sandy! :p

  • I still love Xanga as it is, for the people and community that are part of it. Overall the service since I have joined was great…one is to expect problems to happen when you convert to new databases. The rumour is that some intelligence agency was analysing Xanga comments because they suspected that there might be some aliens communicating through Xanga. Further inside sources indicated that they found far more aliens species on Xanga than what they ever thought existed.

    Re your comment – You are always welcome to comment via one of your poems. I for one am enjoying your poems a lot. Thanks.

  • I realized something this weekend. I don’t like how I felt not being able to comment. I was like a lion in a small cage, pacing. I was like a drug addict that needed a hit. A smoker in a hospital. I couldn’t even enjoy reading other’s sites because I couldn’t comment if I wanted to…and I wanted to, of course. There is nothing worse than not being able to do something, even if you don’t necessarily do it on a daily basis, and not being able to do it. Ordinarily I can stay in my home days on end just chilling out or doing whatever, however, put me in a position where I can’t leave, even for one stinking day, (ie L sick, me sick) and I have this desperate urge, an immediate urgency of needing to go out. Same with Xanga comments. There are some sites that I enjoy reading but don’t always leave a comment. Now I had to read those and needed to leave a comment, if only to say “hi”. I confess. I’m a Xanga addict. I want my comments back. It’s as if they’ve erased a part of me and I don’t like it!

    Ok. Calm now. :)

  • The good news is that both of my computers have crashed, or nearly so, so that I could not enjoy Xanga comments even if I could get to them, which I couldn’t, because my computers can’t.

    Don’t mind me. I just want to stay friends. My head is :spinning: but without the smile. Except, I am ALWAYS smiling. See? :)

    Oh, I FINALLY got to watch What the Bleep Is Going On?, and loved it. Can’t wait to read and comment! Hahhahaha. :giggle: :cry: :sunny: :goodjob: :jealous:

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