YW service outages...

[fnkngrv]

What is the deal the last couple weeks with the site being down for several hours a day as of late? I have spoken with a few folks that are running into this issue especially during the morning to mid-day hours. :iono:

[CTScott]

It was down for about 12 hours today and the same one day last week. I posted a thread a couple of months ago, when it was going down frequently as well, but never got an answer.

[CrankyOldMan]

This morning it kicked off almost promptly at 07:30, so I would guess that it's someone's hobby. I.e. wake up, start up the scripts or bots, ping away until the server crashes. Seems like either the hosts or the nearest DNS node would notice this, or could at least be alerted to the problem so they could monitor it.

Either that, or someone unplugs the server to plug in their coffee pot.

[Kioshi]

Its seriously becoming annoying.

I need to reference some past posts and need a person to PM info about a mod.
And...post a upcoming meet thread.

Fix this admins~

[Kal-El]

The site is down almost every morning for me. For many months now.

The administrators completely ignore YarisWorld, so don't expect an answer or a fix for that matter. This thing is on autopilot.

[JumpmanYaris]

Let's buy the site lol

[1.5]

This site is getting real sad. It's already so dead and there is no upkeep either. It just is starting to make it an annoyance to visit YW.

[RedRide]

Hey guys, at least it's here most of the time! :smile:

[1.5]

Hey guys, at least it's here most of the time! :smile:

lol for a free website I guess we cant complain lol

[KCALB SIRAY]

http://cdn.hometheaterforum.com/c/c2/1000x500px-LL-c217286e_airplane_autopilot.jpg
The site is down almost every morning for me. For many months now.

The administrators completely ignore YarisWorld, so don't expect an answer or a fix for that matter. This thing is on autopilot.:bow:

[fnkngrv]

lol for a free website I guess we cant complain lol


Yes you can...it is a service that is being provided and you can complain because if you support the vendors it is your duty to complain because they assist with financially supporting the site and lose sales possibly because of shotty service. This can directly impact you as a member because if the vendors are not being able to hawk their wares due to the site being down causing people to go elsewhere then they may lessen what they offer. The forums are a major way that vendors know/learn what to offer to their clientele.

[1.5]

Yes you can...it is a service that is being provided and you can complain because if you support the vendors it is your duty to complain because they assist with financially supporting the site and lose sales possibly because of shotty service. This can directly impact you as a member because if the vendors are not being able to hawk their wares due to the site being down causing people to go elsewhere then they may lessen what they offer. The forums are a major way that vendors know/learn what to offer to their clientele.


yeah I was joking, I do understand the vendor system.

It does suck everytime I visit the site and all the most recent thread activity is my posting.

[Altitude]

Bueller? Bueller?

I often wonder if the site owner picked his handle as an example of his absenteeism.

[mazilla]

Either that, or someone unplugs the server to plug in their coffee pot.


I figured they wanted to save power while they were asleep and shut it down. :thumbsup:

[fnkngrv]

yeah I was joking


oh...gotcha :thumbup:

[Kal-El]

Bueller? Bueller?.



Hahaha :biggrin:

It's been YarisBueller's day off for years.

[1.5]

Funny how right after we bring this up we have a 12+ hour outrage.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Yeah, getting pretty annoying since there are no warnings beforehand.

[Kal-El]

Funny how right after we bring this up we have a 12+ hour outrage.

Yup, down all day yesterday, Sad. :thumbdown:

[RedRide]

Yes, now it's getting ridiculous!

I realize that bandwith can be expensive but, this is not a bandwith problem..... it's a server failure problem!
A site that is down 50% of the time is doomed for failure as less and less people will visit it and this makes it even harder to get advertisers to support the site.

I hate to say it but, the owner's silence on this matter speaks volumes about his lack of concern about this site.

[CPALK719]

yea i have been noticing this as well, especially when im at work. i try getting on a few times during my 8 hour shift and the site just basically times out...... it is getting rather annoying

[Spidermandud]

Let's charter a boat on over to the microimage forums, eh?

[why?]

Let's buy the site lol
it was tried, the owner flatly refused to consider it.
Let's charter a boat on over to the microimage forums, eh?
This is a wonderful idea.

[1.5]

Let's charter a boat on over to the microimage forums, eh?

I would be down for that but the MI forums are just as dead if not more than these boards.

[sqcomp]

Perhaps if we all migrated to MI...like a scheduled transfer. Maybe Garm could give us all out post count "seniority" if we all moved over at once.

[Thirty-Nine]

I've been spending more time on the MI forum due to the service outages. It'd be great if more of us did so, too!

[1.5]

If we can get a large migration it would be great because then those boards will be more populous but if one or two of us go over at a time then those boards are still going to seem dead and then no one will be posting on Yaris' lol

[Altitude]

Someone should get a website ripper and grab all the info before it's lost for good.

I agree that the outages are getting far too frequent and far too annoying. Does anyone know where Bueller lives? I'm guessing he's somewhere in California.

[Kal-El]

And this is a relatively small site to run. There's many forums that have hundreds of thousands of members, even millions. And they're never down.

[CPALK719]

if anyone personally knows the admins of this site then maybe they should contact them and let them know....

regardless if supposedly one is a "doctor' and one is a "lawyer" they should still continue to keep THEIR site up and running correctly. i mean Hell i work in the law enforcement field and i have plenty of time when im off and when im on shift to come on here and browse and BS throughout the day.

[fnkngrv]

I think that I am going to migrate all of my data over to MI this weekend and call it quits for the most part over yonder. I really don't give two shits about the owners stance. if they can't get their act together and keep it together then they are a waste of my time. We already lost too much to even discuss from pre-hack because of their lack of proper handling.

[1.5]

I think that I am going to migrate all of my data over to MI this weekend and call it quits for the most part over yonder. I really don't give two shits about the owners stance. if they can't get their act together and keep it together then they are a waste of my time. We already lost too much to even discuss from pre-hack because of their lack of proper handling.

Agreed. Pre hack was like the golden age.

[eTiMaGo]

I would be down for that but the MI forums are just as dead if not more than these boards.

There's just not quite as many people, can't expect a community of maybe 100 active members to post as much as 1000+ ;) But like the early days of YW, pretty much everyone knows each other quite well, and there's not much n00bishness going on :)

[*MAD DOG*]

It is annoying watching the stupid circle go round and round and round and round and nothing happens. Let's face it, this site hasn't been the same since it got hacked/deleted and then reinstated.

[CTScott]

Yet another 14 hours down today.

Perhaps it is time to copy all of the good info out of here, before the day comes that it just doesn't come back up...

[SAV912]

I thought it was just me. I couldn't get on from my computer at home. Then I started noticing that the site wouldn't load on my phone either.

I've used this site's knowledge for many how-tos on my car and there really are some valuable members that are extremely knowledgable and have helped me and many others with mods and fixes. Scott, Garm...Derek's a local homie to me...shame the nozzle who owns this place probably hasn't been on here since re-instating it.

Site Owner/Admin: Get the shit fixed. Then sell the site. Before one of us buys out a domain name (YarisUniverse, WorldYaris, Yarisite) and puts the final nail in the coffin of this quickly-turned-dump of a place.

-C

[SilverBack]

Yet another 14 hours down today.

Perhaps it is time to copy all of the good info out of here, before the day comes that it just doesn't come back up...

This.

Also I'm willing to believe it's gonna take someone with aggressive loan-shark skills to negotiate with the Bueller to buy the site out and become a more reliable admin. And I say this because some of us are dealing with serious situations and need a dependable board that can help us get our problems solved. Isn't that one of the reasons why it's even here in the first place?

[matthewai]

guys for me its been down for about 3 days now . not down but taking way to long to load pages. but it is working on my wii, good old opera haha. how bout instead of that boat we elect new mods bahajha
ps i clicked this out wii remote status

[CTScott]

I thought it was just me. I couldn't get on from my computer at home. Then I started noticing that the site wouldn't load on my phone either.

I've used this site's knowledge for many how-tos on my car and there really are some valuable members that are extremely knowledgable and have helped me and many others with mods and fixes. Scott, Garm...Derek's a local homie to me...shame the nozzle who owns this place probably hasn't been on here since re-instating it.

Site Owner/Admin: Get the shit fixed. Then sell the site. Before one of us buys out a domain name (YarisUniverse, WorldYaris, Yarisite) and puts the final nail in the coffin of this quickly-turned-dump of a place.

-C


There's already a good alternative with the MicroImage forum.

This forum still picks up more international users and new people, which is what keeps things interesting here for me, but the reason they end up here instead of there is that this site has a higher search engine rating. That search engine rating is what keeps money flowing for the site owners without them having to be active participants.

[matthewai]

i think its only out during the day time for me actually

[scene]

it just takes a really long time to load each page ~_~

[*MAD DOG*]

It was down for about 14 hours. So frustrating.

[why?]

MI really deserves everyone's support. The community over there is awesome, and it is cool to hear from owners of other micro's as well.

[CTScott]

MI really deserves everyone's support. The community over there is awesome, and it is cool to hear from owners of other micro's as well.

Agreed. I think some people have an issue with a vendor based forum, but I fell that Garm does (and has done) a lot more for the Yaris community than just try to sell his goods.

I personally am going to put forth a significant effort to add as much content as I can to promote the the Micro Image forum to help increase its search engine standing.

[Focus_Sh1ft]

I also agree. I think this site should just be ditched tbh. I can't think of any other community where the mods are so inactive and the admins are nonexistent.

If we did move exclusively to MI, it would be great if a lot of threads on this site could be moved over and put in an archive.

[CTScott]

Also as per the outages, it looks more and more like a persistent DoS attack,by a certain recently banned member who has the infrastructure to do so, even though no real skills are necessary to pull it off.

I actually called the hosting site for this forum, while it was down this week, to see if they could do something about it, if it was indeed a DoS attack. I was told that they have the ability to take care of it, if that is indeed the cause, but that the owner of the site needs to contact them to do so. Once the site was back up, I PMed one of the owners about this and did not receive a response. The next day the same issue occurred.

I understand that we are being hypocritical with this, but at the same time I think that the owners need to either step up, or sell the forum to someone who actually cares about it.

[CTScott]

I understand that, but as mods we can't do anything about the owners not responding.

Understood as well. I think that the mods here do as good of a job as they are able to. Particularly with people like you, who don't even have a Yaris anymore, yet still do the job.

[why?]

how can you blame people for jumping ship? The community that sustained this website is mostly gone, it just happens, 1 at a time, till all the "usual" posters are either busy with other things or other forums. No forum is going to stay the same, especially when an owner of the forum has repeatedly proven he just doesn't care.

So don't cop an attitude at reality, it is just plain stupid. You're a pretty good person, but that little tantrum isn't going to make anyone stay. There is a time to fight for things and a time to give up. When this site was hacked and all those many posts lost that was the end of this forum. Nothing you or anyone else can do about it.

I'd be shocked if a majority of the old posters still even own a yaris. it's been years.

I've seen plenty of forums die. Just like this one there is almost no one new coming in, and one by one all the old ones get busy with something else.

[cali yaris]

I keep saying that I wish the Mods were promoted and some were made Admins. So just to be clear that none of this is coming from me. I've been 100% supportive of this site with my time, my money, and my appreciation for the Mods' efforts. I could make a pretty damn good argument that I shouldn't have, after the way Bueller treated me after the hack. But I don't roll that way.

With that said, I built Micro Image to represent all small cars, have relevant content and have 100% uptime if possible. I have dedicated a server to just the one site. Nothing wrong with offering an alternative. YW dominates for the one car it represents.

which BTW has the same level of activity during WINTER months.

Not sure what this means, PK?

and yes -- you are spot on about the DoS origin -- we've taken steps to protect our side. I wish I could help here.

[cali yaris]

^ That's because of all you Canadians on the site! :smile:

[Doc Zaius]

You realize that the hack was about 3 years ago, and the forum didn't really suffer as much as you claim it did.

Are you SERIOUS??!? This makes me really mad. That hack lost SOOOO much information, passion, time, love, dedication... a plethora of insight and creativity that is now lost forever.

The site just wasn't the same after that. Nowhere near. Many of us old-schoolers feel that way, I guarantee you.

[Doc Zaius]

Nah, man... just saying, don't trivialize that 8 month loss. :frown:

[JumpmanYaris]

lol

[*MAD DOG*]

Are you SERIOUS??!? This makes me really mad. That hack lost SOOOO much information, passion, time, love, dedication... a plethora of insight and creativity that is now lost forever.

The site just wasn't the same after that. Nowhere near. Many of us old-schoolers feel that way, I guarantee you.

I agree with you. This site has slid into oblivion since the hack. But I still remain here as I still want to be. Even though I don't own a Yaris anymore.

[cali yaris]

cabin fever, hehe.

I don't see why there is even a discussion. YW has what it has to offer, and the Mods can only do what they can do. We have this same conversation over and over.

I enjoy my time here, but I will say this, when the site doesn't come up after a couple of tries in the morning, now I just pass on it til much later or the next day. This is causing me to be late replying to PM's.

This IS affecting YW, at least my experience of it. PK I hope you're not saying this recurring downtime doesn't frustrate the hell out of you.

Maybe the owner should post hours of operation. :laugh:

[Hershey]

May be a hassle , but it's still very helpful compared to other YARIS sites . Hopefully it won't take a crap one of these days . Would miss it .

[Altitude]

Also as per the outages, it looks more and more like a persistent DoS attack,by a certain recently banned member who has the infrastructure to do so, even though no real skills are necessary to pull it off.

If he's using equipment at work, I sure hope his employers don't find out... (hint hint)

[JumpmanYaris]

Dingobat ? :laugh:

[Kal-El]

Maybe the owner should post hours of operation. :laugh:

It's worse than bankers hours on here. :tongue:

[eTiMaGo]

nah the server takes 14 hours lunch breaks...

[fnkngrv]

I can completely understand DoS attacks and the likes as I am an IT Security Professional as part of my portfolio as well as the challenges that are behind them. For this I sympathize however the perception of complete lack of interest by the owners is the issue at large here. Sure, one could argue that if the owners were to publish something in regards to successful penetration attacks that it feeds the offending party however the lack of informing the community is just as egregious IMHO as a credit card company not releasing information that they were penetrated.

Can people argue with my logic? Sure, but when you look at home important the great knowledge base is here for Yaris members and prospective members I don't see how you cannot compare the two. A primary example could be the plethora of knowledge when it comes to working with the electrical systems that has been shared here which provide excellent lessons learned so that others do not fry their systems, etc.

The bottom line is that cohesion of members as well as the level of frustration will be directly affected by the level of participation by those most critical to the operation of this site, be it lacking or on the minute responses. The first glaring evidence that the owners have their own agenda outside of the community was what happened from the first time they fired up the site which is a mistake unfortunately made by too many people. This mistake is not setting up a true back-up solution. If people really want to hold someone accountable in the digital age then they need to look at the purveyor of the service to be blunt, not the parties involved in penetration and degradation.

Would my stance change if perhaps there would be some type of notification to the members that something illegal and heinous is causing the site to be degraded possibly to the point of less than 50% up-time? Yes it would. Knowing what is going on is half the battle. We don't need to know the nuances behind what is happening, but having the owners at least chime in as they did after the hack would instill some modicum of care/concern passed the fact that the site could be or is a cash cow for the owner.

I would have hoped that possibly the owners would be informed somehow or some way that threads like mine are springing up from truly concerned members so that there could be some type of response other than the mods being forced into a corner to defend the site. My goal is not to cause dissension nor destroy cohesion...it is to voice a real concern for the well being of a place that I for the last several years have been proud to have "advertising" such as the yarisworld.com sticker on my automobile. I take this place seriously and all I ask in return quite frankly is that the owners do too otherwise why bother calling it "Toyota Yaris Forums - Ultimate Yaris Enthusiast Site".

[cali yaris]

Well said:

My goal is not to cause dissension nor destroy cohesion...it is to voice a real concern for the well being of a place that I for the last several years have been proud to have "advertising" such as the yarisworld.com sticker on my automobile.

[Kal-El]

Maybe the government is now running this site? That's the only thing that could explain the crappy operation.

[*MAD DOG*]

I can completely understand DoS attacks and the likes as I am an IT Security Professional as part of my portfolio as well as the challenges that are behind them. For this I sympathize however the perception of complete lack of interest by the owners is the issue at large here. Sure, one could argue that if the owners were to publish something in regards to successful penetration attacks that it feeds the offending party however the lack of informing the community is just as egregious IMHO as a credit card company not releasing information that they were penetrated.

Can people argue with my logic? Sure, but when you look at home important the great knowledge base is here for Yaris members and prospective members I don't see how you cannot compare the two. A primary example could be the plethora of knowledge when it comes to working with the electrical systems that has been shared here which provide excellent lessons learned so that others do not fry their systems, etc.

The bottom line is that cohesion of members as well as the level of frustration will be directly affected by the level of participation by those most critical to the operation of this site, be it lacking or on the minute responses. The first glaring evidence that the owners have their own agenda outside of the community was what happened from the first time they fired up the site which is a mistake unfortunately made by too many people. This mistake is not setting up a true back-up solution. If people really want to hold someone accountable in the digital age then they need to look at the purveyor of the service to be blunt, not the parties involved in penetration and degradation.

Would my stance change if perhaps there would be some type of notification to the members that something illegal and heinous is causing the site to be degraded possibly to the point of less than 50% up-time? Yes it would. Knowing what is going on is half the battle. We don't need to know the nuances behind what is happening, but having the owners at least chime in as they did after the hack would instill some modicum of care/concern passed the fact that the site could be or is a cash cow for the owner.

I would have hoped that possibly the owners would be informed somehow or some way that threads like mine are springing up from truly concerned members so that there could be some type of response other than the mods being forced into a corner to defend the site. My goal is not to cause dissension nor destroy cohesion...it is to voice a real concern for the well being of a place that I for the last several years have been proud to have "advertising" such as the yarisworld.com sticker on my automobile. I take this place seriously and all I ask in return quite frankly is that the owners do too otherwise why bother calling it "Toyota Yaris Forums - Ultimate Yaris Enthusiast Site".

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[Kal-El]

seriously...bring politics into it:mad: like we don't have enough drama as is

Wasn't the intention, just a funny joke.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

I would consider myself to be an OG member here. I can say that after the hack, the site was no longer the same. I cannot pinpoint why, just the "atmosphere" changed.

But I can say that I do like the fact that YW is pretty chill. A few other forums I'm in are really overly strict and the mods/admins there have power trips; i.e. I posted my charity car show event and was threatened to be banned (and the admin has his own charity event under his signature). I think the mods are doing a good job, even if we don't really see the majority of them post. I mean, I myself do not post much now-a-days unlike before when I was the top poster on the site :tongue:

However, the lack of concern by the admins is well, concerning.



uhhh, I actually forgot where I was going with this. Danggit, was chatting with the family while posting this. lmao.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

I only post here to mainly answer members' questions now. hahaha

[Kioshi]

Admin has to do something about it.

Like fnkngrv has said/been doing, I and many others sport YarisWorld.com decals on our cars.

About a month ago, I had a random guy notice my car, first time seeing it, etc. etc. etc...at the end of the conversation, I gave the direct website to this place as well as my email address if he had any questions.

He registered (i forget what name...) but really enjoyed reading all the information on here and was pleased with how the members here help one another. He really wants to convey his wife to get the Yaris over the Mini Cooper. <--I'm glad i could help him out.

For our pride of showing others that this site exists and what a great place it is....at least the admin could step it up and hand the site over to someone else.

We have a ton of international members here, most recently...Aiko Cargo, who has been a great help to some members here in finding parts and shipping them out to them!
With the site going down every other day or so....WE LOSE THESE GREAT MEMBERS!
Migrating the people over to MicroImage is a difficult task, speaking truthfully on that~

I'm not jumping ship like the others....afterall, NCVC was born on these forums..slowly.

If the site goes offline more often then these previous times....i will have to jump ship, even though this is my first pit stop when it comes to car problems, inspirations, etc.

[Kal-El]

What's particularly surprising is that the forum never got the expected big boost from the new generation model. It's possible that it may still grow around here as the new model gains steam but so far it's just not happening.

[matthewai]

i think most people appreciate the site at least for the info regardless of how slow or fast its running. its not the end of the world. some one posted something along these lines up above im just to lazy to scroll and quote

[*MAD DOG*]

Maybe the government is now running this site? That's the only thing that could explain the crappy operation.

Maybe.....

[cali yaris]

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ha, thanks for pointing out yet another missing feature. meh. :wink:

[JBougie]

Maybe.....

omgggg I think I pee'd myself ... lollll .... that's the best picture everrrrrrrrrrrrr

[RedRide]

.......Like fnkngrv has said/been doing, I and many others sport YarisWorld.com decals on our cars.......

I also have YW stickers on my car.
I wonder how many people saw the stickers, tried to locate the site when it is down and gave up on it.

[why?]

I would consider myself to be an OG member here. I can say that after the hack, the site was no longer the same. I cannot pinpoint why, just the "atmosphere" changed.

But I can say that I do like the fact that YW is pretty chill. A few other forums I'm in are really overly strict and the mods/admins there have power trips; i.e. I posted my charity car show event and was threatened to be banned (and the admin has his own charity event under his signature). I think the mods are doing a good job, even if we don't really see the majority of them post. I mean, I myself do not post much now-a-days unlike before when I was the top poster on the site :tongue:

However, the lack of concern by the admins is well, concerning.



uhhh, I actually forgot where I was going with this. Danggit, was chatting with the family while posting this. lmao.

That was when it was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt the admins didn't give a damn.

No one can blame the mods, frankly they are saints to deal with this crap.

But unfortunately YW=drama, it always has.

As for newcomers from the new model, give it a year or two and you will see some. We are also seeing newcomers from the used car market. Frankly the car is holding its value too well to get a ton of new modders for the aftermarket scene, but that should happen too in a few years.

YW was gigantic for the casual forum goers a few years ago. Especially 2008/09. Those people are always going to move somewhere else. Getting good active members to replace them is important.

There is no such thing as forum cohesion. Every single forum has its cliques and jerks and groups and crazy mods and so on. We just wave our flag so the newbies know who is who here.

PK wants me to line up the member lists, guess what? there are some really active members, and there are some names who use to be active who don't come around anymore. That's the nature of a forum. Oh, and some people are flat out missing, since the hack killed all of what they added.

No one is saying kill the forum now, because YW has some great people and several great communities. But keeping them together and the insane amounts of info this forum contains alive on the internets is important, especially when it could go down for good any day. Eventually even tire rack will give up on YW. Haven't seen any other ads recently, though i could be mistaken.

[Altitude]

^^ I think TireRack has been gone for a while. I believe that MI is now the sole sponsor.

[Kal-El]

^^ I think TireRack has been gone for a while. I believe that MI is now the sole sponsor.

I've wondered about this. The TireRack ad banner remains, but I had a feeling they're not even a sponsor any more.

:rolleyes:

[toad]

^not sure they're an actual 'sponsor' or not, but doesn't yarisworld.com have a deal with them where if you bought something on their site thru the banner link here a small portion went to the forum?

[KCALB SIRAY]

KCLAB? Who's KCLAB? ;)

ok......someone has a problem distinguishing a tantrum from an opinion. You realize that the hack was about 3 years ago, and the forum didn't really suffer as much as you claim it did. The same situation happens each winter, people don't spend time playing with their cars, have other things to do. Then spring and summer comes around, bringing meets and other activities with the car and people have things to say and show. During winter there is only so much you can talk about turbos and track times and accessories.

Original posters:

etimago: still has a Yaris
caliyaris: still has a Yaris
fnkgrv: still has a Yaris
CTScott: has 2 of them
KCLAB: still has a Yaris
etc etc.

And I dont blame anyone for anything, just calling it as I see it. Fair weather fans, typical of today's society if not constantly stimulated lose interest.

Oh and one last thing...no one else is coming in to become part of the forum? you need to check your facts before you say something like this. Just today we had 21 new members. I invite you to check the member list and line it up according to join date

[cali yaris]

you know....parallel universe?

[KCALB SIRAY]

It's my Bizzaro Superman

[Kaotic Lazagna]

No, it's Spiderpig!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=714-Ioa4XQw

lol

[fnkngrv]

you know....parallel universe?


+1 or Like if it were here...kind of like The One with Jet Li. There are 51 Mikeys right??? I believe that one is a cross dresser for hire...might be Mikey #46.

[J_Lynn]

hehe ... spiderpig

[Shroomster]

*sigh*....We have YW and MI stickers ON BOTH SIDES of the car...and we are about to take a trip from Orlando to Ohio to Louisiana back to Orlando.....It will be a shame if people see YW and can't get on because of this stuff...

oh and BTW


Most users ever online was 888, 10-19-2008 at 12:52 AM

[Hershey]

The site has been fine for past few days . Knock on keyboard .

[CPALK719]

it appears that the site, has been good for a little bit. lets hope it stays that way. i enjoy my time on YW whether im at home or at work.

[KCALB SIRAY]

http://themescompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Japan-Funny-pic-funny-jokes-257395_750_600.jpg
+1 or Like if it were here...kind of like The One with Jet Li. There are 51 Mikeys right??? I believe that one is a cross dresser for hire...might be Mikey #46.
Has nothing to do with your remark, but wanted to get one picture in before this thread is pushed to the back 40.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

lololololol

[fnkngrv]

miraculous!!!

[J_Lynn]

hahaha

[33OH]

I spend 90% of my time on MI now as well, mainly due to the hours of operation and the server always being up.

Still enjoy YW - just frustrating that it's down every night/morning, and that the admins obviously don't care.

The mods do a great job with the (lack of) tools they are given.

[1.5]

same here ^ ive been dedicating most of my forum browsing time to MI but I still lurk around here.

[CrankyOldMan]

I would venture a guess that the admins have in fact been watching, and that they have taken steps to rectify the problem. I haven't had issues with the site for almost a week now. I agree with the notion that they haven't publicly commented on it to prevent encouragement of the attacker(s).

[47_MasoN_47]

I've been here since I bought my car in 09 and can think of once I've seen an admin post. It's unfortunate, but this community is still pretty good IMO. Yaris is a tertiary interest of mine though, so I generally spend a few weeks posting and then fall off the world for a few weeks.

Anyway, there are much worse forums out there.

[J_Lynn]

^ TK just disabled my old JBougie account last week, he was on and posted on there .... but that was the first time I saw an admin post in forrrrrrrreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[eTiMaGo]

TK's not an admin though, just a glorified janitor :wink:

[why?]

I would venture a guess that the admins have in fact been watching, and that they have taken steps to rectify the problem. I haven't had issues with the site for almost a week now. I agree with the notion that they haven't publicly commented on it to prevent encouragement of the attacker(s).

i doubt it. more likely is that whoever was doing it was ip blocked, or got bored and went on to bug someone else.

[*MAD DOG*]

Click here for the latest outage information http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38543

[tomato]

TK's not an admin though, just a glorified janitor :wink:

no, Thomas, that was just you! :wink:

*cough * *cough*

[J_Lynn]

no, Thomas, that was just you! :wink:

*cough * *cough*


:bellyroll: :bellyroll:

[fnkngrv]

no, Thomas, that was just you! :wink:

*cough * *cough*

did you at least turn your head and get a Dr's note stating that you didn't incur a hernia?

:bellyroll::bellyroll:

[RedRide]

So.... what were the fourm "upgrades"?????? :wink:

[yaris2010RS]

+1, what were the upgrades yw was undertaking? i was very excited to see a facelift for yw

[yaris2010RS]

I keep saying that I wish the Mods were promoted and some were made Admins. So just to be clear that none of this is coming from me. I've been 100% supportive of this site with my time, my money, and my appreciation for the Mods' efforts. I could make a pretty damn good argument that I shouldn't have, after the way Bueller treated me after the hack. But I don't roll that way.

With that said, I built Micro Image to represent all small cars, have relevant content and have 100% uptime if possible. I have dedicated a server to just the one site. Nothing wrong with offering an alternative. YW dominates for the one car it represents.



i kinda find this funny...... MI is down today for me. okay garm, 99.9% is still very good.


id just like to say website crashes are fairly normal and should be expected, technology sucks. i dont hold anything against YW or MI. yes YW is down more and i'd also like if they did something about it but hey, its a free fourm and i dont have to deal with advertising popups. im happy with what we have

Just my $0.02