Johnny_at_NineLives said:cant say i'm too upset. forums need to come back. too many car groups keep asking the same flipping questions over and over and over.
most social media is almost unsearchable so the new generation of internet users don't know how.
Johnny_at_NineLives said:cant say i'm too upset. forums need to come back. too many car groups keep asking the same flipping questions over and over and over. wonder if we'll get reimbursed for the adds we've been running. nothing better than paying for 4 days and getting 3.
I agree with you but... Sometime around 05/06 the big name forum members decided it was the norm to act like complete jerks to anyone who was new, didn't have the knowledge they did, or just disagreed with them in any context. I had car friends who never went back because of the elitism of the forums (read Turbo Miata).
Now we have Facebook which I agree is horrible. I quit asking questions, any question regardless of content on the Sloppy Mechanics Public page because it turns into a personal attack on me. This forum is the only place I dare ask a question.
Oh come on, you know they shut down to clean out all the BS and Spammy FB Market ads.
914Driver said:Oh come on, you know they shut down to clean out all the BS and Spammy FB Market ads.
I'll believe that when I see it.
Although if they're doing that, they'll probably be down for a couple months.
Can you imagine if it comes back and everything is lost?
People will go ballistic
From the conjecture I'm reading, it was likely an employee changing a setting, and locking things up bad. If so, sounds like consequences of the "Move fast and break stuff" ethos they have.
Mr. Peabody said:Can you imagine if it comes back and everything is lost?
People will go ballistic
Some people will go ballistic. I will just go have a drink.
I just found out that MySpace still exists.
In reply to QuasiMofo (John Brown) :
She's definitely has kids now, is possibly married, but also possibly divorced by now.
sleepyhead the buffalo said:some interesting potential explanations here:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-took-facebook-down-major-global-outage-drags-on/
ymmv
The idea that somewhere is a physical server room that holds the servers that have to be changed that nobody can get into because their keycards don't work thanks to the server's code fills my heart with joy.
Unless the server became self-aware and it's the birth of SkyNet or that creepy computer from the 90's kid Batman cartoon.
Randsomware hackers are gonna keep berkeleying around until they cross the wrong Uber-rich CEO who has pockets deep enough to hire mean men with big guns who disappear them from whatever country they're hiding in.
I'm in favor of this.
In reply to KyAllroad :
Mean guys with big guns like to receive at least half of their payment prior to any engagement
yupididit said:Duke said:I have never used it and know nothing about it, but the name WhatsApp just pisses me off so much.
Yes, I'm like that.
Lmao do you have a never ending vein bursting through your forehead?
Nope! I'm good.
WhatsApp is awesome. It let me talk/video chat with my daughter, for FREE when she was 7000 miles away.
I will miss Facebook somewhat, I use it to keep in touch with friends as well as the car specific groups. While I wish all those people were still on the OG forums (that I still visit), everything has sadly moved over to FB.
Scotty Con Queso said:Johnny_at_NineLives said:cant say i'm too upset. forums need to come back. too many car groups keep asking the same flipping questions over and over and over. wonder if we'll get reimbursed for the adds we've been running. nothing better than paying for 4 days and getting 3.
I agree with you but... Sometime around 05/06 the big name forum members decided it was the norm to act like complete jerks to anyone who was new, didn't have the knowledge they did, or just disagreed with them in any context. I had car friends who never went back because of the elitism of the forums (read Turbo Miata).
Now we have Facebook which I agree is horrible. I quit asking questions, any question regardless of content on the Sloppy Mechanics Public page because it turns into a personal attack on me. This forum is the only place I dare ask a question.
Places like MT.net, R3V, corner-carvers, became like that because people would ask the same questions over and over and over again. Even though the information is already recorded there on the forum. Many older forums have entire sections dedicated to showing all the commonly asked questions and links to the relevant thread. Doesn't hurt to do a little research, because you're unlikely to get one definitive answer from everyone, but instead a multitude and the reasoning behind it from each person.
Seeing 12+ threads a day of "What oil should I use?" or "what is the best tire (while adding no information about how they will use it or what characteristics they want)" are useless questions that force everyone to ask the OP a bunch more questions to try and figure out what they are trying to do.
And here I thought it was because I found a good deal for a cast iron skillet on FBM this AM, communicated easily with the seller, arranged a time for pickup, and went about my day. Planets aligned, kumbaya, etc.
In reply to docwyte :
People don't realize how useful whatsapp is, especially for us military folk who have folks all around the world they want to talk to.
I just hope that AOL brings AIM back as a result of this, as it was the peak form of digital communication.
I love that Bubba Wallace won today and no one can vent their anger outside of their immediate family lol.
captdownshift (Forum Supporter) said:I just hope that AOL brings AIM back as a result of this, as it was the peak form of digital communication.
A/S/L?
I had half heard that the whistle blower was going to testify today to congress. That was early this morning and I only half listen to the news that time of the morning.
Maybe something really came out of the hearing.
FB is still down and the message i got said to wit a few minutes and try again. Not going to happen.
yupididit said:In reply to docwyte :
People don't realize how useful whatsapp is, especially for us military folk who have folks all around the world they want to talk to.
We could go back to using ham radio.
In reply to yupididit :
WhatsApp may well be great. My annoyance is extremely superficial. I think the name is stupid and it seems full of counterfeit certification peddlers.
And it's back
68TR250 said:I had half heard that the whistle blower was going to testify today to congress. That was early this morning and I only half listen to the news that time of the morning.
Maybe something really came out of the hearing.
FB is still down and the message i got said to wit a few minutes and try again. Not going to happen.
I think it is probably an inside job. Lower level employees not agreeing with the ethics of the guys at the top. Employee revolt.
They knew right where to hit them in multiple areas. Not just shutting down servers but locking the doors where the servers are so they can't get back in to check them. It would be hard for outside hackers to get into so many different systems.
This will go on for a while and it could happen again and again after they think it is fixed.
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