Mmm. That better?
Can..you feel the speed tonight?
Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
How's the site feeling tonight? Faster?
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Drop125
Reply #62 Friday, March 17, 2006 7:37 PM
Reply #62 Friday, March 17, 2006 7:37 PM
Well I guess the galCivII is still more important,,,I guess all you skinners should find a new home....Since After all the subscription drives go to pay for more servers to have em taken up by gamers...But hey..thats still the reason I didnot renew my subscription a few months ago when it ran out...Ill keep my Stardock account paid, but Wincustomize can take it somewhere else...If we have to put up with timeouts why donate..after all if you have made so much in sales from that game why bother with skinning anymore..It obviously pays to buy games and you cater to the gamers first....Oh well Guess Ill go for a hike in the real world up a real mountain and enjoy the sights from reality... 
Frogboy
Reply #63 Friday, March 17, 2006 7:52 PM
Reply #63 Friday, March 17, 2006 7:52 PM
| Well I guess the galCivII is still more important,,,I guess all you skinners should find a new home....Since After all the subscription drives go to pay for more servers to have em taken up by gamers...But hey..thats still the reason I didnot renew my subscription a few months ago when it ran out...Ill keep my Stardock account paid, but Wincustomize can take it somewhere else...If we have to put up with timeouts why donate..after all if you have made so much in sales from that game why bother with skinning anymore..It obviously pays to buy games and you cater to the gamers first....Oh well Guess Ill go for a hike in the real world up a real mountain and enjoy the sights from reality... |
Reality check:
1) WC was down a total of 16 hours.
2) GalCiv II sales generate more revenue in a week than WC does in a year from subscriptions. It's GalCiv II revenue that will be supporting WC.
3) You're not even a WC subscriber, Drop. So what do yo have to complain about?
4) If it weren't for the people who subscribed, we wouldn't have this site at all.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #64 Saturday, March 18, 2006 3:27 AM
Reply #64 Saturday, March 18, 2006 3:27 AM
16 hrs is a small amount of time to be without if it buys new servers. The only people complaining are the ones who don't subscribe/contribute - fascinating 
Rutabaga64
Reply #65 Saturday, March 18, 2006 9:54 AM
Reply #65 Saturday, March 18, 2006 9:54 AM
I mainly use Firefox, and the site is still very slow at times...I have the Fasterfox extension which tells me load times, and it took 38 seconds just for this thread to finally load.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #69 Saturday, March 18, 2006 4:56 PM
Reply #69 Saturday, March 18, 2006 4:56 PM
It's taken me 8 minutes to get to this post. Server busy errors and timeouts etc - just like old times. If the site was fast, guess I missed it
cybermessiah
Reply #70 Sunday, March 19, 2006 12:36 AM
Reply #70 Sunday, March 19, 2006 12:36 AM
LOL. As has been pointed out here clearly MANY times.....YOU GET WHAT U PAID FOR!! As a non subcriber to Wincustomise, waiting for 2 to 3 minutes for a page to load, only to get the 'server busy' message doesnt really worry me (there are other pages to browse in the meantime)...Ive come to naturally expect nothing less. Empty promises will probably only really piss the subscribers off, as they forked out the cash for getting the same experience as non-subcsribers.
Since whenever in history has artistic creativity never been forced to bow down to the dollars that fund it? Thats the reality! My advice...dont waste ur money and dont expect anything...that way u wont be dissapointed.
Since whenever in history has artistic creativity never been forced to bow down to the dollars that fund it? Thats the reality! My advice...dont waste ur money and dont expect anything...that way u wont be dissapointed.
Jafo
Reply #71 Sunday, March 19, 2006 1:03 AM
Reply #71 Sunday, March 19, 2006 1:03 AM
| My advice...dont waste ur money and dont expect anything...that way u wont be dissapointed. |
Jafo wonders then who it was who paid for your 762meg of downloads.....
One way or another everyone pays. Nothing is entirely 'free'.
Artistic creativity, as you put it is quite 'free'...as free as a bird...as free as you like. It's the product advertising/distribution/publicity/access/or, in our Inet case...DOWNLOADING bandwidth, etc that costs.
Always has...always will.
The frustrating thing is that if everyone paid his way the world would be a better place, and that's everywhere, not 'just' here at Wincustomize.com....
HG_Eliminator
Reply #72 Sunday, March 19, 2006 1:12 AM
Reply #72 Sunday, March 19, 2006 1:12 AM
I too have let my subscription lapse. As soon as we get a house though escrow I will be able to use my credit cards again and will resub. Even if I had a complaint "which I dont" I wouldnt feel it was my right to.. since im currently not a direct supporter financially.
like I said in another thread.. No site will ever be "up" at all times. I have even seen msn's home pages go down on occasion. No site will guarantee to always be up, there will always be "unforseen circumstances,etc" it's a part of net life....so to sit here and gripe and complain is about the dumbest thing ive ever seen..
I will say that the bumps weve been experiencing have been for the better.. WC will benefit from the servers and resources GalCivII has added to SD.. since WC couldnt get enough "NEW" subscribers to help with the cost of new servers,etc. we should be happy were getting any extra stuff at all..
just my 2 cents ..
like I said in another thread.. No site will ever be "up" at all times. I have even seen msn's home pages go down on occasion. No site will guarantee to always be up, there will always be "unforseen circumstances,etc" it's a part of net life....so to sit here and gripe and complain is about the dumbest thing ive ever seen..
I will say that the bumps weve been experiencing have been for the better.. WC will benefit from the servers and resources GalCivII has added to SD.. since WC couldnt get enough "NEW" subscribers to help with the cost of new servers,etc. we should be happy were getting any extra stuff at all..
just my 2 cents ..
Nick Blade
Reply #73 Sunday, March 19, 2006 8:07 AM
Reply #73 Sunday, March 19, 2006 8:07 AM
waited till the weekend to see how that was going to go. WOW, it's like a compleatly new site! glad to see the change!
well done Brad and crew!
well done Brad and crew!
aufisch
Reply #74 Monday, March 20, 2006 1:08 AM
Reply #74 Monday, March 20, 2006 1:08 AM
I still get the "Server too busy"-Error regularly. Don't know why, even when its not the weekend.
The Discussion panel in SDC has stopped working for me altogether in the last day, I only ever get compilation-errors. See below;
Compiler Error Message: BC30455: Argument not specified for parameter 'AdZone' of 'Public Sub WriteAd(AdZone As String, [UserLevelAccess As SDNetLib.CustomerLevel = CustomerLevel.Subscriber], [AccessLevel As Integer = 6])'.
Source Error:
Line 16:
Line 17:
Line 18: <% WriteAd() %>
Line 19:
Line 20:
Source File: E:\www.wincustomize.com\browser\forums.aspx Line: 18
The Discussion panel in SDC has stopped working for me altogether in the last day, I only ever get compilation-errors. See below;
Compiler Error Message: BC30455: Argument not specified for parameter 'AdZone' of 'Public Sub WriteAd(AdZone As String, [UserLevelAccess As SDNetLib.CustomerLevel = CustomerLevel.Subscriber], [AccessLevel As Integer = 6])'.
Source Error:
Line 16:
Line 17:
Line 18: <% WriteAd() %>
Line 19:
Line 20:
Source File: E:\www.wincustomize.com\browser\forums.aspx Line: 18
DigitalDanes
Reply #75 Monday, March 20, 2006 12:23 PM
Reply #75 Monday, March 20, 2006 12:23 PM
For the last 3 days all I've been getting when I load up my WC Browser and try to view a thread is this:
Server Error in '/' Application.
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Compilation Error
Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.
Compiler Error Message: BC30455: Argument not specified for parameter 'AdZone' of 'Public Sub WriteAd(AdZone As String, [UserLevelAccess As SDNetLib.CustomerLevel = CustomerLevel.Subscriber], [AccessLevel As Integer = 6])'.
Source Error:
Line 16:
Line 17: asp:Placeholder enableviewstate=false id=_ShowWC_Tray runat=server visible=false>
Line 18: % WriteAd() %>
Line 19: br class=tiny-7>
Line 20: /asp:Placeholder>
Source File: E:\www.wincustomize.com\browser\forums.aspx Line: 18
DD
Server Error in '/' Application.
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Compilation Error
Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.
Compiler Error Message: BC30455: Argument not specified for parameter 'AdZone' of 'Public Sub WriteAd(AdZone As String, [UserLevelAccess As SDNetLib.CustomerLevel = CustomerLevel.Subscriber], [AccessLevel As Integer = 6])'.
Source Error:
Line 16:
Line 17: asp:Placeholder enableviewstate=false id=_ShowWC_Tray runat=server visible=false>
Line 18: % WriteAd() %>
Line 19: br class=tiny-7>
Line 20: /asp:Placeholder>
Source File: E:\www.wincustomize.com\browser\forums.aspx Line: 18
DD
Drop125
Reply #76 Monday, March 20, 2006 6:29 PM
Reply #76 Monday, March 20, 2006 6:29 PM
Look here Brad..>Go check how much I have spent here on this site...You are running your mouth at this point..YES I Know who you are..But this site has been super slow for awhile....If now you are taking away from what I have paid for to take care of another project then you are ripping me off..I did subscribe to Wincustomize, I do have an OD Subscription current and have had one for several years now...Plus I have bought over 70 percent of all the add ons to ..I have several of the premioum packages from all of your top guys..I do support the site, but if you are going to stop working on OD and start doing more for GC then why bother with this site at all, why not go and make games.....the reason I let my Wincustomize subscription run out a few months ago and did not renew it..BUT I DID RENEW MY OD SUBSCRIPTION...Was because this site was no faster for me to pay...So if you are going to slow down development to OD users and new realeses, then why should I be happy????..If your going to do that, then why not extend the OD subscription time to compensate for the slowness of realeses because youy are admitting that you took away from OD Development to work almost full time on GCII...So your saying I should pay for another site to justify my complaint..So to be valid I have to start playing videogames to justify your remark...go figure......So to be in your good graces I should buy every single little product and subscribe to every little service you come up with...and Im sure all your homies will just love to jump on me and tell me what a (insert cutdown here) I am....But no...I am here for OD and skinning period, and if This is swuch a drain for the company then you should close it down and be a game company not a multi offering.....Keep it seperate or stop telling us I need to bow down to your new projects........
Jafo
Reply #78 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 5:55 AM
Reply #78 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 5:55 AM
| and Im sure all your homies will just love to jump on me and tell me what a (insert cutdown here) I am.. |
Words from a 'homie'....
The situation is truly a temporary one that everyone has their noses out of joint over.
I can't even remember the first time I purchased [Windowblinds] from Stardock.....must have been sometime last century/millennium. It was a long time ago. Now recently there has been a relative 'slowing' in the GUI development works and a few days' site downtime/slowness.
And why?
To ensure that this same GUI development work can afford to continue, along with its related Community Site.
Somehow this is perceived as the galloping of the Four Horses of the Apocalypse, or some such dire disaster is afoot.
Hardly that, now is it?
It's actually for OUR betterment, and those sufficiently NOT myopic will see that....[and the 'OUR' refers to US as in 'we, here'].
It really gets tired quite quickly - all this 'I paid for it so I demand it NOW' prattle. We paid for 'it' as an annual subscription, and at last count that's 365 days plus change. Now, with shiny new servers and the GalCivII finally released what say we make use of this new-found speed, etc to further our Community, not complain about what 'was'...
Psikotik
Reply #79 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:08 PM
Reply #79 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:08 PM
Maybe it's just where I am or something, but I've been getting server busy messages a lot, amd it definitely isn't running faster. I've had pages time out on me a several times. I'm using FasterFox, and I've had pages take up to 29 -30 seconds to load. 
Adamness
Reply #80 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:56 PM
Reply #80 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:56 PM
I think it's better for things to be a bit screwy for a week or two, and to have things done properly. Apparently, they're redoing parts of the site and dealing with new servers, and selling the new game which all benefits us at WC. It's better for them to do things well and take their time, than to rush and half-ass everything to appease people who are complaining. Remember, your subscriptions aren't just about uptime, but all the behind the scenes stuff like servers and overall site maintenance.
Sites go down all the time for maintenance, and all people can do is wait it out. Be lucky that WC wasn't shut down entirely until everything settles down.
I think some people are being just a tad too short-sighted.
By the way, I found someone's wallet in the dorm here, and they gave me $25 for it. I think I'll use it to get a subscription.
Sites go down all the time for maintenance, and all people can do is wait it out. Be lucky that WC wasn't shut down entirely until everything settles down.
I think some people are being just a tad too short-sighted.
By the way, I found someone's wallet in the dorm here, and they gave me $25 for it. I think I'll use it to get a subscription.
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Reply #61 Friday, March 17, 2006 3:53 PM