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TServo2049
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Yes, but the fact that it's been alternating between working and not working perhaps 10 times in the last hour may indicate that something's going wrong server-side. If everyone's checking to see if BOM is still alive, at the same time that they're trying to put in updates after a nasty server outage, isn't there a possibility it could hinder their ability to get things working again? I am now even thinking this whole three-day fracas may be the result of a botched server migration...maybe they have to work out all the bugs on the new server and we're fucking things up by constantly overloading it? Again, if this is the case, a message on Twitter or Facebook would help: "Don't go to the site, we're trying to fix it and the traffic is putting too much strain on the server."
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Guardians of the Galaxy OS Thread($768M WW Total )
TServo2049 replied to Olive's topic in International Box Office
Isn't it every week? The sources for initial U.S. reports of China weekend numbers are almost ALWAYS off (usually they're too low). -
I still think this is a textbook case of IMDb/Amazon bureaucratic incompetence. I won't repeat the GetSatisfaction story. BOM/IMDb/Amazon seem to be laboring under a delusion that speaking frankly about a problem would cause MORE panic than not saying anything at all, when in reality it PREVENTS panic. (I do not include either Ray Subers or Col Needham, they'd have to follow orders from above. At this point, I imagine the Amazon boardroom as the denizens of Wonderland acting out a Monty Python sketch inside the Dr. Strangelove war room.)
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If you are still being directed to IMDB, you may need to clear your history/cache. Your browser could be remembering the redirect. I've been getting BOM correctly since it returned. As I said, it appears that either they put it in as a temporary stopgap (which is stupid, because they didn't tell anyone why and it sent exactly the wrong message), or it was an existing fallback measure in case of total server failure (which is also stupid, for the reasons previously stated). Either way, bravo to BOM, IMDB and Amazon, by explaining nothing you allowed a mundane temporary outage to turn into one of the bigger Internet freak-outs I've personally witnessed, complete with people proclaiming their intent to completely boycott you. And this falls into the same pattern I've witnessed in my time as an IMDb contributor, of random changes, insufficient explanation, and unnecessarily allowing rumor-mongering to flourish by failing to quickly and concisely set the record straight.
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I keep saying it - if it was just a server outage, and the IMDB redirect is some kind of existing automatic fail-safe when the server completely dies, why didn't anyone say "The BOM server is completely down, the URL will redirect to IMDB until we've fixed the site." Why did everyone, including Ray Subers, go quiet and leave us in the dark for over 30 hours? Public relations. You suck at it. Let's just hope they're better at damage control...