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By TIME Staff | October 24, 2008 | +

Faithful TIME.com blog-readers may have noticed something odd today: the blogs kind of disappeared. Long story short, we’ve had major server problems, and as a result we’ve had to re-launch all of our blogs on WordPress. The upside is a faster, better, more stable platform. The downside is we’ll need a few days to get our archives back and work out the bugs, and commenters not currently registered with WordPress will have to re-register. For this last part in particular, I beg your forgiveness. Our commenters are critical to the success of our blogs, and we hate to do anything that makes your participation more difficult. Luckily, re-registration is easy, and one username and password gives you access to all our blogs. You can REGISTER HERE.

I apologize again for the inconvenience, and for being down when there’s so much going on in the world.

Sincerely,

Josh Tyrangiel
Managing Editor

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  • http://www.inworldstudios.com jayackroyd

    The downside is we’ll need a few days to get our archives back and work out the bugs,

    Probably would have been better to have this happen after the election. And the collapse of the American economy. Ah well….

  • sgwhiteinfla

    Yeah, what he said!

  • ilgordon

    Thank goodness you are back I was having major withdrawal symptons

  • timeisnotonyourside

    You incredible idiots are truly the AOL of the blogosphere. You manage to lose not only your entire current thread list, but the logins of all your commenters. I trust your advertisers will be lining up for refunds. Have you no concept of computer backup? A bunch of middle school students could run a better blog infrastructure.

    Of course, the trademark dishonesty of TimeWarner will prevent us from ever learning just what happened, but I am convinced that it involved profound stupidity. Your organization is truly the journalistic equivalent of the Bush administration: arrogant, incompetent, and better forgotten.

  • http://jaysundahl.wordpress.com/ Jay S

    Can we get an RSS feed again?

  • grandsophy

    oops is right. to say nothing of my withdrawal issues when I couldn’t get my TIME fix.

  • grandsophy

    or should that read “fix on TIME”

  • http://sbguy.wordpress.com/ SBG

    Some days are better than others.

  • gysgt213

    Josh,

    You need to have that time is down page redirect to the new. People with that link did not know that things working again.

    Thanks.

  • http://www.inworldstudios.com jayackroyd

    well gunny they’ve dropped the “scheduled” from the message anyway.

  • http://www.inworldstudios.com jayackroyd

    If you just update your bookmark, gunny, it will work okay, I think. Also, if you navigate through the time.com site, it seems to be directing properly to the newly named pages.

    Of course, nobody ever does that…

  • http://www.inworldstudios.com jayackroyd

    And the blog links at the top are working. Losing all the precrash content, especially on a Friday, though, is not so good.

  • http://www.inworldstudios.com jayackroyd

    Testing moderation parameters has apparently gotten me blocked in the Joe the Plumber thread. Still here? Or am I down for the count?

  • karen248

    My productivity doubled yesterday when you were down.

  • stillkathy

    This was a royal pain. Have lost my screen name once again, as someone else has kathy. But it’s still me.

    The major complaint I have about this is the line that you were down for a “scheduled” reworking of the blog. It would appear this is either an outright lie or an admission of appalling incompetence, not to have notified us in advance that it was scheduled.

    Don’t trifle with us.

  • cubiclewarrior

    So, color this a strictly professional curiosity, but what exactly happened? Don’t you all have disaster recovery servers/plans? Did anyone lose their job over this (because I know I sure as hell would have)?

    And really, to echo what stillkathy said, putting up a message about ‘scheduled’ maintenance is just lame, especially when your servers have already been down for 18+ hours. Ain’t no one out there in any industry has scheduled downtime during business hours.

    And the worst part of all of this? Your maintenance message wasn’t even grammatically correct. For shame.

  • http://josemuniz.wordpress.com/ José Muñiz

    Your bio links do not work at this time. They currently re-direct to a new account or new blog sign-up page.

  • dfh3

    New name, still a dirty Fing hippie.

  • http://randomfoo.wordpress.com/ randomfoo

    I was planning to Joe Klein’s Full Obama Interview transcript. Here’s hoping the archives come back up sooner rather than later (the discussion thread was pretty interesting as well).

    Good luck w/ the migration.

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