Fluffy Biscuits writes:
Politics.ie seems to be down and has been for most of the day. I understand some of the users may have quit and formed a new site and others are on the brilliantly but not as busy (but will be) politicalworld.org . Anyone have the low down on what’s happening!!
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Blacknight Hosting (which politics.ie is hosted on) has been experiencing DDOS attacks all day, hence the downtime
Nothing to do with it, it’s clearly a database problem. The site is up as it’s giving a vBulletin error.
Saying that, Blacknight has been crap of late.
Damn you politicos! Can’t we all just get along???
They’re hosted on Blacknight who have been struggling the last few days with their servers
The govt wouldn’t give them free hotel rooms with traffic cones or sustain so they,’ve jacked it and gone to lisbon…
Cheers I was getting confused
Different site, same posters.Like the journal posters, all should be ignored.
I used to like politics.ie, the odd time you would hear something interesting , from someone close to the political action, but those people seem to have left the site ages ago.
Now its just a handful of posters beating the heads off each other, and they ignore the sometimes poster and just bash each other …
In my humble opinion that seems to be the way most of those sites go, they are good for a while but get hijacked by what becomes the usual suspects , and OPS quickly get derailed by the play the man rather than the ball paradigm…
Never seen that happen before…
It just happened :-)
*swoons*
You mean like how Broadsheet is going?
exactly!
@Kieran
Regretably, yes
I miss Mani :(
Thanks. I miss me too.
I never think of Mani.
They are having a database error problem.
Who gives a fupp?
This is the only game in town
Too right. Got ourselves a pretty sweet set-up. Some dogs will bark at every doorbell, but oldtimers like us know to just sit and wait.
Let’s hope everyone doesn’t end up at thepropertypin.com. They’d ruin it :-(
P.ie has been on a downward spiral for quite some time. Most users have migrated to voat.co/v/boards
I’ve never bothered with P.ie since their cowardly stance on Kate Fitzgerald row. Always thought David Cochrane a bit of a donkey anyway. Broadsheet is the only show in town.
…as FreshFish said upthread.
Cochrane is full of himself which breaks the first rule of business, Sanity over Vanity. Never make if about yourself.