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Title: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: Jack_wilds on January 04, 2016, 04:12:06 PM
so whats happening with simtropolis.com?...  ()sad()

I would very like to give them aid but spent my last $$ fro eats and gas for the truck  &mmm
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: mgb204 on January 04, 2016, 04:19:31 PM
Site outages due to upgrades and other factors are all part of running a website. I'm sure it'll be back up as usual within a few days at most. I believe there is a Twitter feed (assuming you use such things) for reporting the status, so that's probably the easiest way to verify what is going on.
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: Tarkus on January 04, 2016, 04:38:09 PM
Here (https://twitter.com/Simtropolis) is the Twitter feed.  They haven't posted anything since December 30th, though if this ends up being a longer outage, they're usually pretty good about updating it.

-Alex
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: JP Schriefer on January 04, 2016, 04:46:22 PM
Looks like a problem happened. They usually let a message on ST saying they're updating the site. Today there's only a weird error message.
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: Vizoria on January 04, 2016, 05:17:08 PM
Simtropolis sure has suffered from a lot of outages in the last several months. It must be site upgrade teething pains.
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: Bipin on January 04, 2016, 05:40:31 PM
Well, this is disconcerting. Hopefully it's just a hiccup, but I need my favourite charmingly bizarre mid-night chat room back up soon!  :crytissue: ;)
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: FrankU on January 05, 2016, 12:17:39 AM
AaarghHH...!
I uploaded a file yesterday afternoon. Was it my mistake? I hope not!
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: gviper on January 05, 2016, 02:32:33 AM
Frank you took the whole dang site down!  :thumbsdown: ???   

:laugh: :D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: FrankU on January 05, 2016, 02:51:31 AM
 :evilgrin:
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: simmaster07 on January 05, 2016, 11:22:19 AM
Good to see the Simtrop servers haven't stopped catching fire at random ::)
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: compdude787 on January 05, 2016, 12:37:28 PM
And....it's down again. :(
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: FrankU on January 06, 2016, 12:08:54 AM
And up!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: Bipin on January 07, 2016, 05:54:40 AM
...Aaaand it's down. Again :(
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: mgb204 on January 07, 2016, 06:49:04 AM
Bipin - Why do you insist on breaking the internet  :D

It's back up it seems :).
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: FrankU on January 07, 2016, 10:54:00 AM
Yes, and up again!

By the way, now that I have your attention: what is wrong with the search function? I seem to have so many results every time I look for something that I still cannot find what I am looking for. It's terrible!  :'(  ()what()  :angrymore:  :bomb:
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: mgb204 on January 07, 2016, 10:59:20 AM
Hint: Use google :) Search is so broken on ST I don't even consider it's existence.
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: compdude787 on January 07, 2016, 04:41:44 PM
I've never understood why they don't just use Google Custom Search on the STEX, which is what the LEX uses for its search function (not the "Power Search" where you can search by categories or usernames, but the plain-old search function).
Title: Re: 2016 current status of Simtropolis.com
Post by: FrankU on January 07, 2016, 11:47:23 PM
Yeah, that is a good idea. I'll do that. Thanks.