Sifttocalypse now!

(gwiz665) 1 decade 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 603 views

So, the bomb just went off, as our resident bee artfully illustrated here:

The question is, where do we go from here?

Maybe this is an crisatunity, as the japanese say, so that we could build a better foundation, while everything is up in the air?

I'm being glum and bitter, because it hurts, but I know that the admins are working their asses off to get it all to work again. That doesn't change the fact that this should not happen. It shouldn't even be possible, unless a multiple computers were destroyed somehow.

edit: Don't want to be a negative nancy, and stress the poor souls working hard to make the rest of us feel better (too much anyway, so just to add a little more niceness, I know, or assume, that this is a shittier situation for you guys than for a malcontent like me, so know that I forgive you and hope that we all together can get things rolling again.

Here is a tip for how to get info back in any case:

1) google it!

Google you username and view the "cached" version, then you can get much, much info.

Compare the cached with what's there now, and you can scour usernames that have been lost, find out what you voted in a fringe case and basically anything you could have seen if it all worked.

(I tried the wayback machine too, but there were only records from 2007 (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.videosift.com)

7 Comments

maatc

says...

Ah, I love the smell of siftbot in the morning!

Some good suggestions there!

First actions I took:
Upvoted everything in my playlists
Upvoted most of the things in my downunder channel
And of course upvoted everyone of my clips that ever made it out of the queue

rasch187

says...

Cheer up, gwiz. What is the "cached" version of a google search btw?

kagenin says...

>> ^rasch187:
Cheer up, gwiz. What is the "cached" version of a google search btw?

When google's webcrawler views a web page, it makes a copy of that web page in Google's archives - the "cache." Google makes a copy of nearly every website (except those that tag themselves with a nocache tag) on the internet.

For shits and giggles, try doing a google for "4chan" - the first two links are to 4chan's official site, which aren't cached by google. The third link is the Wikipedia page about 4chan, and you'll notice a "Cached" link under the listing next to the "Similar pages" link. Using the Cached link is handy when the original site is down or otherwise inaccessible.