The only thing I really have to say about AO3's latest contretemps is: I toldyou so~
When a platform is so fucked up that the only way to make it run is to take out the navigation, then it's time to think real hard about who's been driving development.
I saw that announcement and head-bonked against the nearest wall-surface a few times. Oy. Idiots. Their system never really worked all that well in the first place for trying to find anything, and to find out that was the major problem in their server load (which yes, you had predicted well in advance)...
I'm also particularly ticked off by the fact that they have *OVER 17,000* users waiting for an invitation and they're only giving out 100 a day! And they took away our own right to give out invites. WTF? Seriously, you're going to make people wait over SIX MONTHS to get accounts, and in most cases, that's just so they can *read* stories? ???? That's some seriously stupid planning and way to alienate a whole ton of people.
Six months? When the site has been up and running for *years*? At this point, the "beta" should be out of it's name altogether! But they keep hiding behind the "beta" saying "work in progress" when it's really such a slapped together effort.
Not to mention the other thing I found and screamed about earlier (at least they responded promptly to my ticket and admitted guilt in the matter).
Argh. Again, love the concept. Love that they've archived stories. Nice to have... but what a really horrible way of implementing it.
Because I kept meaning to get a AO3 account and putting it off, I figured I'd take this opportunity to join the never ending queue, and this was the little automated response - You've been added to our queue! Yay! We estimate that you'll receive an invitation around 2012-12-17.
Oh yeah, let us cheer that we're going to make you wait half a year. There is not enough facepalm in the world. I mean, at this point, they could at least take ten minutes to change the reply to "sorry" instead of "Yay!".
... That's a really stupid little response. Honestly, folks, take two minutes and change the message. Yay! Six months! {rolls eyes}
If you want one sooner, I do actually have an invite left that they haven't taken away. I don't know what will happen after I send it - they might actually be blocking the ones we send personally. But worth a shot, if you want.
Honestly, it's fine, this encourages me to try to convince them to change their invite system, because I'd have been okay with a month or two wait considering how long the queue is, but 6 months is absolutely ridiculous and something there needs to change.
^_^ "Here, see, I was *almost* a potential consumer, but your shitty policies have turned me off. Change, damnit!"
When I was poking around at the invites, I noticed they now have over 19,000 people on the list. Six months just grew to seven. Pretty soon, they'll be at a year!
Yep! I told them /that/ too, not too very long ago. And it's not like accounts are what adds load (as has been demonstrated). It's not even like /uploads/ are what adds most of the load. *shakes head* Such a mess.
They just proved beyond a doubt that it has nothing to do with the number of people, with that lovely little graph of server load vs their story finders... So let people in! Who knows, with more people, they might even get more volunteers who can help them figure their way out of this mess.
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Date: 2012-06-14 12:10 am (UTC)I'm also particularly ticked off by the fact that they have *OVER 17,000* users waiting for an invitation and they're only giving out 100 a day! And they took away our own right to give out invites. WTF? Seriously, you're going to make people wait over SIX MONTHS to get accounts, and in most cases, that's just so they can *read* stories? ???? That's some seriously stupid planning and way to alienate a whole ton of people.
Six months? When the site has been up and running for *years*? At this point, the "beta" should be out of it's name altogether! But they keep hiding behind the "beta" saying "work in progress" when it's really such a slapped together effort.
Not to mention the other thing I found and screamed about earlier (at least they responded promptly to my ticket and admitted guilt in the matter).
Argh. Again, love the concept. Love that they've archived stories. Nice to have... but what a really horrible way of implementing it.
yeaaaaaaaaaaah....
Date: 2012-06-14 12:35 am (UTC)That? That's just absurd.
Re: yeaaaaaaaaaaah....
Date: 2012-06-14 01:27 am (UTC)Oh yeah, let us cheer that we're going to make you wait half a year. There is not enough facepalm in the world. I mean, at this point, they could at least take ten minutes to change the reply to "sorry" instead of "Yay!".
Re: yeaaaaaaaaaaah....
Date: 2012-06-14 07:54 pm (UTC)If you want one sooner, I do actually have an invite left that they haven't taken away. I don't know what will happen after I send it - they might actually be blocking the ones we send personally. But worth a shot, if you want.
Re: yeaaaaaaaaaaah....
Date: 2012-06-15 01:21 am (UTC)Re: yeaaaaaaaaaaah....
Date: 2012-06-15 03:18 am (UTC)When I was poking around at the invites, I noticed they now have over 19,000 people on the list. Six months just grew to seven. Pretty soon, they'll be at a year!
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Date: 2012-06-14 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-14 07:56 pm (UTC)