UPDATE: Seems the blog is working again, but in other news, it looks like all of my comments across my entire blog have been somehow deleted. 
Yikes!
As of this morning...
this is what my blog looks like to the outside world... and me.
Yup, that's right. And not just me either... tons of folks on Xanga (from what I can see) though not all. From the homepage, I tried clicking to a blog, and got this...
Routine maintenance I guess? I looked through my e-mail, but maybe I'm missing something.
Either way, I wanted to do a quick drive-by on my blog this morning, and I realized... very suddenly how much I'm not cool with this. Luckily, I could still get to my inside page:
So, not a total scare... but still not very cool. When Xanga resolves this, I will be saving my blog posts from this website as a BACKUP. Xanga doesn't provide you with a means of doing this, as far as I know, so its moments like these that are truly eye-opening. I'd signed up for Xanga Premium last year, and recently my subscription expired, and ads began showing on my page again. I've been considering re-upping, but after this... well. A few weeks ago, I got tons of traffic from some posts involving ringtones on the iPhone. My blog got dugg on Digg.com, and in reading the comments... a few people said, "People still use Xanga?" and other such comments.
As of today, Xanga says I've gotten 48 visitors before the system went south. Nice. It's 6:45 am and now those wanders get to see broken page errors.
I think effective immediately, I'm going to start a blog somewhere else, and only use Xanga as a backup place to post... until I'm comfortable in my new digs. I've never been happy with Xanga's complete inability to let you search YOUR OWN BLOG (Google notwithstanding). Searching by username seems like "magic" or "voodoo" or something I guess. Even using Google (and the "site" token) sucks because most of the "permalink" pages aren't indexed... only the main pages, which makes little sense. As such, I've never really felt "in control" here.
Anyway. Just a rant after an annoying morning.
Grrrrrr!
Comments (2)
testing
wow... if I can see my test, I guess that means all the other comments are really gone, and not just "hidden" somehow.