Hit the comments here with whatever’s on your mind. What are you thinking about? What questions do you have?
Update: No sooner do I publish this and it looks like Flyertalk is beginning to struggle to come back up. C’mon, you can do it!!
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Thank goodness it’s not down for just me…
Is my upgrade for tomorrow going to clear! I mean, come ON UAL!
What is the relative value proposition for priority club points for reward nights or the points + cash options? When does one make sense over the other?
Struggling is the right word.. it’s still down mostly for me.
Wonder what was the problem?
I am a recent convert to FT and am amazed at how many times I have checked since morning to see if it is functioning. I am curious about the amount of time you spend on FT each day esp given that you are the TalkBoard president as well.
yay, you fixed it!
🙂
I can live without FlyerTalk. I can quit anytime I want to. I’ve gone without it for HOURS at a time. There are times when I don’t even wake up in the middle of the night to check for mileage runs. Honest.
I’m trying to get into FlyerTalk, but it’s really hard for a newbie. The site doesn’t seem very intuitive for someone whose not used to message boarding. Need to figure out if/how to get it to work with my RSS.
what’s my compensation? 😛
Was FT down / very slow due to this morning’s Wall St. Journal article?
It must have been down during that meeting I was in earlier today, because it worked before and afterwards. Great timing!
Ok so it is down again. Sitting in the Westin BKK lounge and thinking I really ought to be out eating something instead of here in the hotel anyway.
Wow, down again? Never used to be this bad when Randy owned it.
If it stays down, I may actually have to work today.
Mike
Yep, down again.
Was the reason why it’s down ever posted?
Yep, it’s still down. I saw it trying to come up yesterday afternoon, but apparently it didn’t stay up.
In other news, my productivity has suddenly improved. 😛
Oh no. I can’t go 2 days like this…….
Same for me…. It is really slow…… Have to click refresh several times before the page is brought up. Gave up.
I am FURIOUS with AA! They confirmed me for an upgrade and rescinded it 2 hours before my flight! How are they allowed to do that?
Good ‘ol crappy IBB.
It’s not just FT, it’s Internet Brands. Their site and all the sites they own are down. Must be some pretty big server issues.
OK, the first day I can forgive them, but now I want compensation.
Out of Curiosity, what other sites does Internet Brands own?
Yeah, let’s take ’em to small claims court. Intentional infliction of emotional distress! 🙂
FT hasn’t been the same since IBB purchased from Randy. A sad fact.
Internet Brands site, cached, with a list of most of their properties:
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:coUpAVDg_PUJ:www.internetbrands.com/+internet+brands&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Ok, this is ridiculous… I’ve been trying to get on FT since yesterday- they didn’t even let us know! 🙁
it’s nice to see my ft friends here…i’m glad i’m not the only one having problems with flyertalk.
really miss it when it doesn’t work, even if it’s not what it once was (what is?).
I checked on Twitter & so far even Randy isn’t sure why site is still down. What will we do if it’s down all weekend!
so all you old-time FTers, what WAS it like back in the day? i’m no longer a newb, having registered in the middle of 2007 or thereabouts, but clearly not a long-time poster.
I can’t believe how addicted to FT I am. How long can this last? I can’t take it much longer……..I’m going off the deep end.
@gobluetwo: Back in 1998, I would post a question and then come back a week later to see if anyone replied.
Maybe they are converting to the new phpbb3?
Another Forum I use just recently upgraded to that. It has cool features like:
‘Friends and Foes’ where you can ignore specific people in the forums and not see their posts, updated private messaging features, the ability to bookmark specific forums, a way to subscribe to topics to be notified when others post in them, more edit features in posts and private messages, and improved security and speed. Long Live Flyer Tyler You make me sit in Bigger seats and have better Hotel rooms for free.
Still down for me. Man, I am feeling the withdrawal. Cold sweat and panick begins to sink in. Wha if there is another 100K credit card bonus out right now? Oh no.
Well thank god it came up for long enough to find that LPB deal from NYC for Aug 10 for $484, still avail end Jan-June and Aug-Oct usually with a Wed or Thurs out
I would be more productive if it were up. I’ve spent most of the day just TRYING to get in.
I just realized I can’t imagine my life without Flyertalk! :p
I registered only in Feb of this year. So how was FT like in the old days? Those several comments make me start thinking….
I am addicted to FT, too….. I agree about the feeling of missing a deal or something…. er… Thx Randy for opening his Wing for us to rant.
I am member #9919, registered when I was 22 in 2002, in the old days, FT would not be down like this, you could find your thread on the first page in like a week after you posted it, now a few minutes later you have like 10 replies
Going thru withdrawals here too!
@MileageAddict — and today you post a question, hit “Submit”, then hit “Reload” and see the flames coming in 😉
Ok, I am exagerating about the flames (a bit), but certainly the answers come in rather quickly in many forums.
Is there any official update?
What if IBB went out of business?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen web servers run so badly as with Flyertalk.com. I mean, an outage is one thing, but it shouldn’t take this long to resolve.
The Internet Brands website is slow, but it seems to function. However, none of the sites they own seems to work:
http://www.internetbrands.com/ib
Still down – my latest Google gold-panning turned up only a few nuggets of information. Apparently all of Internet Brands’ sites have been hacked/attacked. This morning when still able to see the home page of FT, you could see a bogus menu item under “Other Links” that appears to be part of the hackers’ strategy. Dang – now I’ll just have to play online poker.
Perhaps they’re using DL’s IT department to manage it; it seems to work as well as the award calendar does.
Freakin IBB amateurs! How do they manage to take down a high traffic website for an entire day???
To test the theory regarding Internet Brands, I went to a sister site: slowtalk.com they are up and running at what seems to be normal speeds. One of the moderators did post 4 hrs. ago that IB websites had been under attack since yesterday.
I should have printed the information I needed. Never thought flyertalk will be unstable and unavailable.
Technology fails when you realllllllly need it.
I read a posting on another site that said flyertalk was hacked and had links to a warez/porn site right on the home page
I miss my FlyerTalk!!!
It’s actually kind of quaint that a website can go dark for a couple of days. Kind of like an old fashioned big city “blackout” without electricity!
Just hope no crazy mileage run or hotel deal pops up in the meantime!
As far as the “good ol’ days” at flyertalk, I seem to remember the system crashing periodically — just as it does today. It was obviously a smaller community back then, which is both good and bad. Personally, I like the larger size today — more information. Sure, you might have to move faster on a “mistake fare,” but there’s a lot more content these days.
In the meantime, if you need travel info (as opposed to ff info) consider starting a thread in the forums of tripadvisor. That is definitely an up-and-coming forum — kind of like a more sophisticated Lonely Planet thorn tree.