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Well, you probably noticed that our site went down yesterday. It started at around 4am EST (don’t ask why I was still up ) a system wide upgrade was implemented. After a quick restart, the changes took affect, which … you guess it … breaks the sites. On top of that, the host was having network issue. Anyway, we went to work on it right away, and sites are backed up around 14hours later. There went our weekend. Since we did lots of recoding to make the sites work with the new backend, if you see any error message, please let us know.

Update 11/24/08: Because of a malfunction, most of the videos are not working at the moment. Stay tuned for more updates.

If you guys keep hammering the server like this, we might need a new server soon. Not that we can afford another one now. So, we might need to cut down on user connections. We’ll see …

Update 11/25/2008: The videos are still down!!!

Update 11/26/2008 @ 2AM EST: THE VIDEOS ARE BACK UP!!!
Well, we have been working on the problem for a long time now. The majority of the videos should be working now. Some series will still needed to be updated here and there, but the recently added ones should work. Next time, please read the blog before flooding our inbox with tons of message about the same problem. We’re always try to be nice and answer all inquiries, but it does get tiresome after 10 emails or so. Anyway, it’s passed 2am now and I can barely keep my eyes open anymore. For the night owls, and people from other timezones, enjoy your videos.

It’s already November. Man, time sure flies. Daylight saving had ended. We now have a new president-elect (for better or for worse). Before you know it, it’ll be the holiday season and then the year is over. It’s also mean that we are reaching our second anniversary. More on that later. Let’s start with some updates.

About 2 weeks ago, part of our videos are down because one of the video host was doing a major update to their system which brought down the servers for almost a week. Of course, after they updated, our old code didn’t work any more. We were immediately went to work on a workaround. At the moment, a fix was implemented and the videos should work now. At lease, if for Firefox. As for Internet Explorer, because they way they handle code differently, it’s about 50/50. Although we’ll continue to investigate other possible solutions, your best bet for viewing right now is using Firefox. We’ll test on Safari later when we have time.

Any way, thank to our helpful staffs, we are now able to provide you with higher quality videos without chopping them into tiny little pieces. This limited engagement is available while we celebrate our second anniversary. However, because this process is very time consuming, the trial period will end when we start our third year, which is a little before Christmas time. Then, they will be only available to our contributors. Since, the majority of people don’t really care about the quality, or chopped-up videos, this probably will have very little effect on our viewers. Personally, I’m a quality-nut, so I don’t watch anything with low quality any more, but that’s just me.

Since we are always working on adding/removing/editing functions, features … blah blah … if you suddenly find something not working as it should. Then it’s normal. If after a week, and it’s still broken? Then you should send us a message to let one of the staffs know in case we missed it.

Update 1: Safari is working just fine.

Update 2: If you have an unused YouTube account that was registered in early 2007 or earlier, please give us access to it so it can be use in one of the experiments that we’re running. Thank you.