EPIC GEEK FAIL
May. 13th, 2009 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalian(Entry 1 of a two-entry series tonight)
So ... Twitter's down again. For more maintenance. I wonder what function they're going to delete this time.
This particularly annoys me because the last tweet I received before the whole thing went kerflooey was something via @iheartwordpress. See, I've been attempting to set up Wordpress on my site because I could seriously use the comment ability over there. Seriously, I have no idea who looks, who listens or what they say (more on that later). However, streamline.net is not particularly good with this kind of programme. It doesn't offer support for any outsourced programmes, so if you do want to add a message board or something like Wordpress, you can do it but you will receive no help whatsoever from streamline.net, and if something goes wrong - read: they move your server space for no readily discernible reason - you're screwed. Also, despite entering exactly what they say my details are in terms of database name, user ID and password, it won't grant me access. So something in there is screwed up and it's on streamline.net's side and they will not help me with the details I require. Therefore, they are arseholes.
However, not quite so much so as @iheartwordpress, who decided to take it upon themselves to do a search for anyone using 'Wordpress' and proceed to offer their services. Without, I might add, doing any research on the lines of what country I'm in, either. I mean, they offered to install the damn thing for $25. Sorry, faceless people, but I'm not in the US. $25 means jack all to me. Besides, I'm not giving my details to total strangers when the problem is that I'm not even sure the details, which to all intents and purposes are correct, are even working because streamline.net are a bunch of jackoffs. Don't try to sell your services to random passers-by in the tweet stream just because they are grumbling about problems. If they wanted to find professional help to install Wordpress, they'd find someone local, you tits.
But I can't tweet this to them because Twitter's down. Boo.
(Oh, no, wait - there we go.)
On the subject of the Fail Whale, let's talk about the removal of the option that allows Twitterers to read outgoing replies from people on their friends lists to people not on their friends lists. Okay, some people might not want to read one-sided conversations, but it's not going to be overly server-intensive to provide the option, is it? And yet, 'in response to the majority of Twitter users', they've removed even the option. And some people are saying, "I like it better this way; cry more, arseholes". (Yes, literally.) Someone needs to teach Twitter that the best way of staying at the top of the game is offering as many options as is humanly possible, to engage as many people as possible. But nooooooo, yet another company alienates its audience by removing a perfectly reasonable option because some bunch of arseholes can't be bothered to find a toggle button.
To hell with 'being a geek girl sucks'. Sometimes, just being a geek sucks.
So ... Twitter's down again. For more maintenance. I wonder what function they're going to delete this time.
This particularly annoys me because the last tweet I received before the whole thing went kerflooey was something via @iheartwordpress. See, I've been attempting to set up Wordpress on my site because I could seriously use the comment ability over there. Seriously, I have no idea who looks, who listens or what they say (more on that later). However, streamline.net is not particularly good with this kind of programme. It doesn't offer support for any outsourced programmes, so if you do want to add a message board or something like Wordpress, you can do it but you will receive no help whatsoever from streamline.net, and if something goes wrong - read: they move your server space for no readily discernible reason - you're screwed. Also, despite entering exactly what they say my details are in terms of database name, user ID and password, it won't grant me access. So something in there is screwed up and it's on streamline.net's side and they will not help me with the details I require. Therefore, they are arseholes.
However, not quite so much so as @iheartwordpress, who decided to take it upon themselves to do a search for anyone using 'Wordpress' and proceed to offer their services. Without, I might add, doing any research on the lines of what country I'm in, either. I mean, they offered to install the damn thing for $25. Sorry, faceless people, but I'm not in the US. $25 means jack all to me. Besides, I'm not giving my details to total strangers when the problem is that I'm not even sure the details, which to all intents and purposes are correct, are even working because streamline.net are a bunch of jackoffs. Don't try to sell your services to random passers-by in the tweet stream just because they are grumbling about problems. If they wanted to find professional help to install Wordpress, they'd find someone local, you tits.
But I can't tweet this to them because Twitter's down. Boo.
(Oh, no, wait - there we go.)
On the subject of the Fail Whale, let's talk about the removal of the option that allows Twitterers to read outgoing replies from people on their friends lists to people not on their friends lists. Okay, some people might not want to read one-sided conversations, but it's not going to be overly server-intensive to provide the option, is it? And yet, 'in response to the majority of Twitter users', they've removed even the option. And some people are saying, "I like it better this way; cry more, arseholes". (Yes, literally.) Someone needs to teach Twitter that the best way of staying at the top of the game is offering as many options as is humanly possible, to engage as many people as possible. But nooooooo, yet another company alienates its audience by removing a perfectly reasonable option because some bunch of arseholes can't be bothered to find a toggle button.
To hell with 'being a geek girl sucks'. Sometimes, just being a geek sucks.