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Be careful - Redrum - 02-25-2014

Kathy wrote "Why should CARDboarders worry about outages at that other site? We have Yvonne, hence vastly superior website administration."

Yeah, the benefits of a single obsessed individual using her professional skills...basically for free.

Of course, if you think about it, she might be doing this out of love (or obsession) but if we all want to keep enjoying that, we all need to pay for a bodyguard / nanny to keep her safe and healthy.

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Re: Is the board kinda balky and slow today? - Kathy - 02-25-2014

And it would be well worth it.

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Re: Be careful - SUBuddha - 02-25-2014

(02-25-2014, 01:58 PM)Redrum link Wrote:Of course, if you think about it, she might be doing this out of love (or obsession) but if we all want to keep enjoying that, we all need to pay for a bodyguard / nanny to keep her safe and healthy.

Redrum, I am licensed as personal protection for the State of AZ, so if Kathy ends up here I can take on those duties. I refuse to jump through the hoops to get that license in CA though!

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Re: Is the board kinda balky and slow today? - teejers1 - 02-25-2014

The trainwreck that is the Bootleg right now is strangely compelling.

As that crippled site coughs and spits in the ether and only sporadically presents something interactive to its subscriber base, my mind can't help but imagine what is going on in the HQ offices of whatever outfit owns the Scout operation now.  Pandemonium.  Frustration/anger.  Disgust.  Engineering Mutiny?

The possibilities are endless . . .

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Re: Is the board kinda balky and slow today? - BostonCard - 02-26-2014

Yeah, the site is back down again.  The bright side is that they have plenty of experience dealing with poor design, engineering failures, lousy execution and angry customers.

BC

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Re: Is the board kinda balky and slow today? - 82lsju - 02-26-2014

(02-25-2014, 11:42 PM)teejers1 link Wrote:The trainwreck that is the Bootleg right now is strangely compelling.

As that crippled site coughs and spits in the ether and only sporadically presents something interactive to its subscriber base, my mind can't help but imagine what is going on in the HQ offices of whatever outfit owns the Scout operation now.  Pandemonium.  Frustration/anger.  Disgust.  Engineering Mutiny?

The possibilities are endless . . .

they are now owned by some of the same people who sold them to FOX

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/jim-heckman-helm-scoutcom-sports-network-sold-fox-2005/

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Re: Is the board kinda balky and slow today? - Robbie - 02-26-2014

(02-25-2014, 11:42 PM)teejers1 link Wrote:The trainwreck that is the Bootleg right now is strangely compelling.

As that crippled site coughs and spits in the ether and only sporadically presents something interactive to its subscriber base, my mind can't help but imagine what is going on in the HQ offices of whatever outfit owns the Scout operation now.  Pandemonium.  Frustration/anger.  Disgust.  Engineering Mutiny?

The possibilities are endless . . .

I'm willing ton answer this.

The original team and much of the original engineering staff has reacquired the assets of the company. Fox ran the company in Los Angeles, and did not do anything with it except keep it running. (Very little innovation during its ownership.)

They are moving operations back to Seattle. They need to recreate all of the infrastructure and move it off of Fox servers to their own world. All while building a team. It's a bit chaotic. Meanwhile each of the individual sites (like the Bootleg) is like its own fiefdom, and adapting on its own terms.

They are just trying to tread water.

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