The Listverse Blog

Hmm – it is still here apparetly :)

JFrater — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:22:29 +0000

Hmm – it is still here apparetly

wondering what is happening w/ this blog…

Cyn — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:12:40 +0000

wondering what is happening w/ this blog.

Reviving the Blog

JFrater — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:56:25 +0000

Now that we have a new style of front page at listverse, it makes sense to revive the Listverse Blog. This blog is not hosted on the main site so if you experience any issues there, you can come here to post about them.

This blog will be used to deliver administrative messages – things like site updates and competition results. So be sure to subscribe to the feed so you can catch up each day.

Fark Geek Front Page Coming Soon

JFrater — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:26:30 +0000

At 1:19 we will hit the Geek section of Fark – it does not produce as much traffic as the main page, but it can produce a LOT on its own. Hopefully the site will stay up – but if it goes down you will know why. Rest assured I will be working to make sure it stays up – and two recent Fark front pages have not killed us – so fingers crossed! You can comment here if you wish and I will provide updates if they are needed.

This blog will not go down if the main site does – it is hosted on a different network.

Site is down

JFrater — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:34:53 +0000

The site is currently down – the sysadmins are on to it and it should be up soon. At the moment I am unsure of the cause. I will update again soon.

[Update] The site is now back up.

Reddit Front Page

JFrater — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:00:13 +0000

The front page on reddit has driven the site to the ground – I am working on getting it back up. Updates soon.

Fark Front Page

JFrater — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:16:44 +0000

WARNING: at 5:53 PM Fark time (I don’t know what their time zone is) we are going to hit the front page of Fark with the 20 beers list. I have warned our SysAdmins – hopefully this will not cause difficulties or downtime. If it does, I may have to shut down comments until we can cope.

Pages Broken – 13 Feb 09:36 GMT

JFrater — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:36:49 +0000

At the moment all links are broken on the site as the sysadmins are trying to fix hotlinking problems we have been experiencing. This should be fixed soon. Please stand by.

[Update]: This is now corrected – the hotlinks issue is ongoing and will hopefully not cause such a dramatically fault when it is being fixed.

[Update 2]: All faults are now fixed.

Brief Outage 2 Feb 2008 Early Morning GMT

JFrater — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:37:17 +0000

Last night there was a brief outage caused by a failure of a powersupply at Pacific Rack. It lasted for around 1 hour. It is nice to know it wasn’t our fault this time!

Front page of Reddit

JFrater — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:47:23 +0000

The Top 10 Bizarre Stories from the Bible has reached the front page of reddit (in record time!) – congratulations JT. Everyone cross your fingers that we can survive the onslaught of traffic – we are already past 12 MB/s and I have alerted the systems administrators to be on alert.

The article on reddit is here.

[Update] I should mention that the hosting company we use (Pacific Rack) are preparing a plan for me for going forward and coping with more traffic – I am hoping to hear from them on that by the end of today or tomorrow.