Ok, who broke BikeRadar!

[Noodley]

You did indeed mangaman, and did you not get a spiffy apron as a prize? I seem to remember seeing a pic with you wearing it

 

[661-Pete]

It was probably Wiggle who broke it.

Ha ha! (BR in-joke)

In-joke indeed! Have compassion on us outsiders (not on BR I mean) and post a link, FFS!
Had to do quite a bit of digging, but here it is.

That's going to take some reading, but it looks like a fun thread!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

In-joke indeed! Have compassion on us outsiders (not on BR I mean) and post a link, FFS!
Had to do quite a bit of digging, but here it is.

That's going to take some reading, but it looks like a fun thread!

Sorry, you're right, it was a bit in-jokish. To compensate, here's its sister thread that I only noticed a short while ago.

 

[Keith Oates]

HI Dave_1, good to see you here and to know your still around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[GraemeS]

Another BR refugee (although I lurk more than post). My favourite part of the whole Speed-King debacle is when he advertised the bike in question for sale. Sadly that thread seems to have vanished.

 

[661-Pete]

Do BR now hold threads indefinitely? It used not to be the case, on C+ they used to erase threads after a few weeks, so one's past misdemeanours moments of brilliance were lost to the world...

Actually we did complain to Wiggle, once. My wife for some reason was unable to log in, several E-mails passed between us and the website admins, they had several goes at it but were unable to fix it. Now she has to use my account to get anything from Wiggle. That works, at least. Do you think I should take this further? European Court, perhaps?

 

[dodgy]

I wonder how many people won't now bother returning to BR? It's been down almost 6 days hasn't it?

 

[pedylan]

All is explained here. And it only took a week to let us know.

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/bikeradar-forum-update-29392

 

[ColinJ]

All is explained here. And it only took a week to let us know.

http://www.bikeradar...um-update-29392

That's pretty pathetic!

Using software with such a low limit on a big forum wasn't a great idea in the first place.

Not preparing better for this change was pretty unprofessional - it makes me wonder whether anybody actually realised that there was such a limit? Maybe they just hit it, and wondered why the forum had stopped working!

And as for taking a week to post a message explaining it - it would have only taken 5 minutes to do that! That should have happened within half an hour of the forum going down.

 

[ColinJ]

So the answer to my original question "Who broke BikeRadar?" is - the damn BR forum members, by actually using it too often!

Er, Shaun - are there any software endstops on the CycleChat software that we need to worry about? Should we start rationing ourselves to 5 posts a day, or only post every other day?

 

[dodgy]

Dead right Colin, and who's to know that the site hadn't been hacked? It would have been professional to put up a notice explaining why the site was down ages ago! Just about every forum I use has occasional downtime, doesn't stop them from taking 20 seconds to put up a message explaining why.

 

[Dave_1]

I think bikeradar possibly have not planned ahead for the capacity problem they have, which taken together with the unmoderated pro race forum, suggests the forum is not getting their full attention. I see some activity on br now and a user regd jan 8th, hardy26 who appears to have post 5 times in 5 threads but when we click on the thread hardy26's posts-the most recent in each thread are then invisible? what's going on??

 

[meenaghman]

They did say there was a time stamp problem.. so I presume most recent is not able to show "most recent"

 

[BikeCurious]

I joined here after Bike Radar crapped out. TBH some of the people on there annoy me, I might just stay here from now on.

 

[mangaman]

Hi Mangaman
It was me you beat. I was 2nd in the first PTP-07 :-)

I remember it well Dave - all came down to Bettini winning the Tour of Lombardy if I recall