The State of WinCustomize Address
Well, we really are not a state but we want to start legistlation to become one!
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 by T-Man | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
As you all know WinCustomize has had more than its share of problems for the last year and especially the last few months. Unfortunately we have not been able to give WinCustomize the attention that it deserves. Two main reasons for this is because we are under staffed in our IT department and for the last several months our primary attention has been turned towards supporting the release of Galactic Civilizations II.
For many months are staff consisted of only 3 people to run WinCustomize.com, Stardock.com, TotalGaming.net, GalCiv1.com, PoliticalMachine.com, store.stardock.com, JoeUser.com, DesktopGadgets.com, SocietyGame.com, PowerUser.tv, XPThemes.com, our entire Database structure, Stardock Central Servers, all our Interal Database and Intranet needs, and of course now GalCiv2.com and its supporting sites. But in January we hired another developer (Dean) to help lighten the load. And starting next week we will have a new developer on board and by the years end we hope to hire a couple more developers. So we are expanding our staff and we really hope to get everything fixed up properly this year. So if you know of anyone who is interested in doing ASP.Net Web Development of if you are interested in it yourself and live in Michigan please send me a resume at [email protected]
While most of us were off working on GalCiv2.com, Dean has been slowly chomping away at converting WinCustomize from ASP.Net 1.14 to ASP.Net 2.0. Yesterday we launched the new version of WinCustomize. There really is not any new features with this new build of WinCustomize but there have been several tweaks to the code to improve performance and hopefully stability. Some people are already reporting speed improvements so that is a good thing. But always with updates there are always some bumps along the road as others are reporting logon issues.
Many of the logon issues were occuring during our upgrade process because of an incompatability between cookies written under the different versions of ASP.Net. If you are currently experiencing any logon/logoff issues please use this link ( https://www.wincustomize.com/killcookies.aspx ) to delete your WinCustomize cookies. After that logon/relogon and if you still experience problems please report them here.
So over the course of the next couple of weeks we will be focusing on improving the stability and speed of WinCustomize. So if you have any bugs or problems (no feature requests please) please report them here and we will do our best to get them fixed as soon as possible.
Also, we are adding additional servers to our server farm so we can load balance all of our sites better. Not just WinCustomize but all our websites. This should also help with speed and stability as well.
In a nutshell, thats where we are at and that is our plan. We do apologize for all the site problems you have been enduring and we hope to turn things around. And if we don't you have my permission to flog Dean (sorry Dean but my skin is a little sensitive and I don't want any bruises 
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Reply #22 Wednesday, April 12, 2006 6:45 PM
No joy here.1. loaded site - not logged in
2. found this article, killed cookies
3. closed browser
4. lunched it again, logged in (as there was no cookie)
5. closed browser
6. open browser, loaded site, not logged in.
Reply #23 Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:29 PM
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Reply #26 Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:54 PM
speed generally seems better though
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Reply #28 Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:17 PM
Tman thanks for the killcookies link. Will try it out when I get the scones. Right now I just got The Beast working o.k. and I think I'll just cool it for a day...
Anybody notice that along with the edit feature on the fritz, the smily faces aren't always willing to be picked up?
Hah! worked that time. That one's for Dean. Welcome! Take lots of breaks chomping/gnawing...gotta ruminate, too 
[dang! worked again!]Reply #29 Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:59 PM
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Reply #32 Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:04 AM
This started today. I have never had any problems before but now I soon have a brainmelting
How can I go back to how it was before? It's very anoying if I first login and then go for instens to the forumsites and then back again and then I have to login again!
Any ideas?
Reply #33 Thursday, April 13, 2006 5:28 AM
IE7 here, logging in each time required (used cookie killer as well, still the same).
Reply #34 Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:09 AM
Opera 8.54
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Reply #38 Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:51 AM
Welcome dean!!| After clicking on "view ratings" on one of my skins, I was sent to the old site. For giggles, I logged in , was sent back to this site and now I can close my browser and stay logged in. |
I did the same thing last night, Craig...but this morning I still had to log in!!
And I don't remember seeing that button before last night, unless I'm just having another senior moment!!!
Reply #39 Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:32 AM
Reply #40 Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:35 AM
1. Loaded site
2. Logged In
3. Browsed Site
4. Toaster made "popping" sound
5. Two slices of slightly browned substance called "bread" now sticking out of toaster
6. Explored "bread"
7. Renamed "bread" "toast" in honor of toaster
8. Tasted "toast" and found it delicious
9. added greasy substance called "butter"
10. Called the entire process "Breakfast"
Thanks for all you do guys! would starve without y'all! HEY DEAN---WANT SOME TOAST???
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Reply #21 Wednesday, April 12, 2006 6:37 PM