Sorry we were down - Now we are back!
Apologies all around for the last 72 hours. Contrary to a few wild rumors; no, I did not neglect to pay the hosting fees. We’d been talking about moving to a dedicated box for some time now if for no other reason than to give us a lot more flexibility when we (and by “we” I mean Chris and Rick) start coding the new stuff we’ve been talking about. Our time line got pushed up a little quicker than we wanted, and a few things in the move did not go as smoothly as we had hoped.
But we’re all better now. The site just went back up, and Chris is furiously checking things and making some final tweaks. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been JONESING for some of my subscriptions! All should be well. If not, let us know. And we’ll keep our eyes on things for a while. Moving always sucks.
September 19th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
Thank God you are back up. But evidently not all is well just yet. I don’t seem to be able to manually release the next episode. It launches to a blank screen and never actually releases the next episode.
Good luck guys, my iPod has been lonely.
September 19th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Hi Guy’s , same here , blank screen when trying to release episodes.
Sure you’ll have a fix soon.
Cheers!
September 19th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Another issue here…I’d subscribed to Earth Core last week and it is not showing on my subscription list, I’d also removed a couple of subscriptions for completed books and they are show up again. Looks like data was restored from a backup?
September 20th, 2006 at 12:23 am
i was freaken! freaken I tell you! Thank the gods of every myth that you are back. I almost died! You just can’t take an addict’s source away like that.. You have to wean.. Next time wean!!!
Thanks
September 20th, 2006 at 12:44 am
I am glad you’re back. I am having the same problem with releasing episodes,and also the same thing happens when I try to cancel, or alter the release schedule for a subscription. But I guess new servers always bring new problems at first.
September 20th, 2006 at 2:42 am
Oh dear, my podcatcher software (Juice) now seems to have gone & downloaded again every episode of every feed I’ve ever subscribed to via Podiobooks! Ok, I can manually delete these, but now I’m not sure if I’ve deleted genuine ‘next episodes’ as well & as I often don’t keep strictly up to date on every story this could make listening very confusing.
September 20th, 2006 at 5:10 am
Welcome back, guys. So glad to see you!
I can and do sympathize with what you’ve gone and are going through. My ultimate solution is to get a computer with a magic key on the keyboard that says, “JDWIW” (JUST DO WHAT I WANT). Hit that button and VOILA!, all done!
Anybody know where I can find that??
FYI, the “manually release next episode” thingie doesn’t work for me, either, so I’m guessing it’s not an isolated phenomenon. Good luck with that.
Again, welcome back.
-Bear
September 20th, 2006 at 5:51 am
Just to help pinpointing the problem with releasing chapters:
I switched the update frequency of a book from monthly to daily.
Now it says “Next Release: Part 9 of 29 on Aug 16, 2006″.
September 20th, 2006 at 5:54 am
My feeds do not release automaticaly anymore (probably since all the dates have passed), and the release manualy doesn’t work, so I’m basicaly still unable to listen…you still have some fixing to do.
September 20th, 2006 at 6:12 am
Hi guys! just to underline the point, having the same problem with releasing new chapters. I’m sure you’re working on it, just let us know when it is fixed…. please!!!!!!!
September 20th, 2006 at 8:21 am
Heya, folks. I’m posting an update on the blog.
September 20th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Looks like things are fixed now. Working fine. Thanks!
September 20th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
Ever since the site went down my itunes is not picking up new episodes. What’s going on?