February 20, 2009
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Site Maintenance
We need to perform maintenance on the servers today to resolve some issues that are causing some intermittent problems.
The site will be down starting at 2:45PM EST and will be back up before 3:00PM EST.
BTW, Xanga had the least amount of donwtime in all of 2008* of the major social networks:
Social network downtime in 2008
(*Imeem had less downtime than us in the chart but they were only tracked for part of the year.)
Comments (82)
Yay.
please fix the homepage settings! I want the reg. settings back, I’m stuck on dash!! halp.
gj.
Congratulations Xanga!
@unbirthdaygirl - Do either of these links work for you?
http://www.xanga.com/private/yourhome.aspx
http://www.xanga.com/private/homemain.aspx
Thanks for letting us know! Good thing I usually post in the morning.
Thnx for the heads up!
It’s because you guys are doing an awesome job!! I don’t think you are nearly as glitchy as other networking sites either!
Great job, guys and gals!
@Krissy_Cole - Thanks!
This is my favorite social network. I never have any problems. Ever. Keep up the amazing work ! (:
@kassieisradxO - Thanks!
yay xanga! good job!
lol. Facebook. T_T there were a lot.
哈哈哈… :]
well done, and it’s really nice that you announce in advance about these things
I <3 Xanga =)
YEY FIX IT!! GO XANGA! KICK THAT INTERNETS BUTT!
WoooHoooo
wOOt!!!!!!
xanga > *
Thanks. The report on downtime was helpful. I often take it for granted that things should work right all the time even though I know that’s unrealistic…Keep up the good work!
Keep up the good work you guys are doing i love this website more than myspace. so get doing a good job.
Way to go, Xanga!
Thankfully I have a 2:00 class so I won’t be here anyhow.
20, whole, minutes?! Ahhhhhh!!
Haha, just kidding. I think you guys have spoiled me, what with the whole lack of downtime and all. But I’m proud.
i ll make sure to time my lunch so that it’d coincide. i dont want the down time to affect my inability to xanga during work.
i love you!!!!!
That is one thing I have noticed, how few maintenance times there are here! Great job!
But… what am I going to do for 20 minutes?
Gulp.
Well, maybe one of the problems you’re fixing is being able to pulse from your mobile phone again! I miss that so much. It was like carrying all my friends around in my pocket, especially since you don’t support my phone for Xanga mobile…
really? that’s strange. i guess livejournal had different times that they had downtime. it seems like xanga is always down in the middle of the day; lj, in the wee hours of the morning.
Not a problem for me, I’ll be out working making a living. You guys rock! Thanks for your hard work!
Thanks for doing such a great job and keeping this site up and running. 20 minutes will be no problem.
Great job!
Yeah, Nice to hear about that Xanga had one of the least downtime of 2008, hopefully 2009 will be even better.
Xanga pwns.
Xanga is my favorite blogging network and still is, even though I use others, it will give me some extra time to do some job searching.
Thank you for letting us know about the down time. I appreciate it then we aren’t trying to post when it is not possible. I am having a lot of trouble the last couple of days in uploading photos. Congrats on the least downtime. Now I suggest more customer and tech service. Even if you buy tech service from someone else. This will sell Xanga better than all the gimmics. Judi
I think that xanga runs very smoothly compared to a lot of other sites. Great Job Xanga Team!
Impressive!
One of the reasons why I’m still here after 5 years! Thanks Xanga!
Woo hoo! That’s because you guys rock!
least downtime = most unresolved bugs?
I still think Xanga rocks, I been using the site for nearly four years, and all the features are fantastic, even though I use some more than others on my blog.
@dan - yes, thank you dan!! yay!
I am quite surprised about the other websites, but interesting to see how other sites compared with downtime.
coooooooool
cool!
Xanga rocks! If only more people knew that.
Maybe you should advertise.
Between you and me, and this is a secret, Xanga is the best social network/blogging site EVER.
Hopefully everything has been sorted out.
And congratulations.
xanga*3*
Awesome!
This has absolutely nothing to do with the site being down for maintenance, and I guess I could post it as an ‘Idea’, but it would probably never get enough votes to be considered significant enough to warrant attention. And knowing that I’ve thrown this out there and said my two cents will help me sleep at night.
I randomly clicked on a blog today from one of my blogrings, and I was somewhat appalled to see the weight loss ads on some poor anorexic girls site. I’ve thought of them distastefully before, but it really brought it home to me to see the flabby-before and skinny-after pictures literally side by side with uploaded pictures of a sixteen year-old human skeleton. I know that sites try to match their ads to their target population, but taking advantage of the fact that the majority of Xanga user’s having eating disorders to generate revenue seems somewhat immoral.
I don’t expect you guys will actually do anything about it, but I felt obligated to say something. I think you guys are doing a great job with the site in all other respects. Keep up the good work!
Hi Xanga Team,
I am your active blogger sadaboy(prof Dr N.Sadasivan) in India.
Please accept my hearty congratulations for attaining minimal downtime during 2008.
Though it was just serendipity that made me register with you,I understood immeditely that your business policy is to be 100% customer friendly (customer=user) and help him or her derive a feeling of fullness as from a sumptuous feast.
I had http://www.wordpress.com and http://www.onsugar.com also as my websites but soon I discovered that your service to a lay blogger like me was far superior to theirs.Hence with no scuple i switched to your URL unashamedly though your Chinese connection made me a bit sullen for a time.
You have a bright future as a URL for me,I am sure!1 My warm wishes for giving me such a happy life through letting me post my blogs smoothly!!
sadaboy india.
That’s because you guys rock.
Hi team,
My site was unfairly rated EX today due to my desire to lash out against plagiarism on Xanga. I am absolutely livid and hope action can be made to rectify this!
@Garistotle - SnoopyDog24, 25, 26 … 36 all came to my blog today at approximately 4:15PM Eastern. Each one of these accounts were registered today and have the standard Fist Xanga Blog on them. I have reason to believe that this was the work of one person acting to sabotage my site. I am still livid about it and hope that something can be done to protect other Xangans from this happening to them.
UH no..
ver good
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN !
keep going!
oh lawd.
Also, “Post to Blog” rings is down. Can see the choice anymore in xtools. Thanks!
Hi there! i want to keep my old Xanga settings, but evey few logins im offered “new pages,” all of these *@* sites are subscribing to me – and i really want nothing to do with it. i’m fine with the good old Xanga, without points, credits, or minis.
okay i lost all my credits during your update… can you reply back on my information on that?
Hello Xanga team, I’ve been trying to get in touch w/you, but you haven’t responded to any of my mails for abuse. I need you help, if you can get back at me by messaging me. Please reply back. Thank you very much & I would appreciate it.
thanks.
I’m lucky I dodged the downtime.It was touch and go,but I was Xanging once again.Many thanks for all the work you guys put in to make this the best blogging site on this internet thingy
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Good luck
hi..do we have rss feeds of our blogs?
Hello.
I’m new to xanga
Care to help a girl out?
@beaut_25 - Yes:
http://www.xanga.com/dan/rss
How do I enable the rss feeds of my blog?
@beaut_25 - Go here and enable the RSS feed: http://edit.xanga.com/editaccountprivacy.aspx
i luv xanga!
haha.. twitter.. it sux!
Oh, but if only we could have less downtime in 2010…
@MagisterTom - I was wondering why you rec’d this. lol.
GIVE ME MY TRUE BADGE!
Do you realize you misspelled downtime?
@msLadygee - ¡Twitter is teh awesomz!
@quasarglow - I just wanted to bring a little chaos into the Xanga world on a slow Sunday night. I was wondering if anyone would comment. And then I came across this gem of a post just randomly and thought it would be the perfect post to recommend.
@NightCometh - LOL, that they did.