Sooooo We Gone Talk About What Just Happened?

[darthska]

Hey STAFF MEMBER, go look at your IP ADRESSESSES, this is not an ALT Acct. I am 100% Original since 2002.

I see that. You just changed your SN.

Carry on.

 

[freeze]

NT going down took me back to the same feels whenever my free movie site get sniped. I remember the panic I had when Noob was no more. Twas a depressing half hour til I found an alternative on reddit lol.

 

[Hijo Del Promo]

I see that. You just changed your SN.

Carry on.

Thanks SKA!

 

[darthska]

I got so much done at work today, not even gonna lie.

 

[Methodical Management]

Methodical Management ?

I see those "donations" are going to good use.

The supporter subscriptions aren’t going toward hosting expenses. Since the supporter program was implemented in the fall, we collected 1,816.63 in subscription fees. (It's not a round number because we lose money due to payment processing fees.)

We have just donated that entire amount (and a little extra to reach a number of symbolic significance, 1865), to BailProject.org.

If you'd like to join us, we just set up a group fundraising page here:

The Bail Project

The Bail Project is a national nonprofit organization that pays bail for people in need, reuniting families and restoring the presumption of innocence. Because bail is returned at the end of a case, donations to The Bail Project can be recycled and reused to pay bail two to three times per year...

secure.givelively.org

Anyone who donates $100 or more will receive an exclusive NT Pocket Tee. These will not be sold.

Just contact me with proof of your donation, your preferred shirt size, and a shipping address. Make sure you donate through our group fundraising page so your contribution is reflected in our community total.

if law enforcement were to ever seize our servers would you be obligated to tell us? Methodical Management

Whether obligated or not, I would tell you.

Methodical Management we get hacked?

No, I don't believe so.

Sadly, we've largely been in the dark as well.

Here's what I know: yesterday afternoon, we lost contact with our server. HellaSteph and her team were able to establish that our site was not the only one affected. We believe the outage may have impacted the entire data center.

NikeTalk's server is hosted at a facility in downtown Chicago. The bridges were raised yesterday, but I don't know if that played any role in the duration of the outage or impeded the response.

We fully support the protests, but we did not intentionally take the site offline to make a point. NikeTalk exists to give all of you a place to speak, not to speak for all of you. It was our intention to maintain our platform, but we instead experienced an extended service outage for reasons outside of our direct control.

Our goal was to protect all of your posts and content, but if the outage had persisted we were prepared to restore the site to a rented machine from our most recent backup. (Backups are performed daily.)


It should go without saying that the team here shares your frustration and disappointment with this outage. Although our uptime record has been favorable (we've only had one other unscheduled service outage in the three years we've hosted our site from this facility, due to a power outage), we are nonetheless exploring alternative data centers.

We may experience a scheduled service outage in the process of switching to a different data center - but this will be scheduled to occur outside of peak hours and will be communicated to everyone well in advance.


I appreciate everyone's patience and apologize for the unscheduled and prolonged outage.

 

[darthska]

It should go without saying that the team here shares your frustration and disappointment with this outage.

THAT PART!!!

 

[Mark Antony]

Wait the data center in a major city prone to winter disaster doesn't have other onshore/offshore redundancy?

 

[アミーゴ]

Methodical Management donated, thanks as always for having excellent ways to give back!

 

[smedroc]

FBI pulled me in about my recent comments in the George Floyd thread...

Don’t worry i didn’t snitch.

 

[llcooljunr]

Going dark made me realize how much I still lurk on NT... been doing it for almost 2 decades!

 

[gentrification]

Probably needed it that posts were becoming utter ****

 

[WAKKO!]

I thought 2020 got to NT

 

[frshstunna]

I thought NT was a wrap ....Started to go to one of my backup sites then realized i don’t have any ...Y’all all I got far as web content

 

[stuntman mike]

alright....which one of you guys sent angry messages to Nelson C on IG?

 

[Methodical Management]

Wait the data center in a major city prone to winter disaster doesn't have other onshore/offshore redundancy?

The data center was in a central location to promote fast access times for all our users in North America. I make no apology for preferring to support Chicago over Dallas. Although we still have an uptime record of over 99.9%, we are dissatisfied with how the past 24 hours have played out and will be exploring our alternatives.

As for offshore redundancy, I don't know what kind of budget you think we're working with here, but this isn't Facebook. Even cloud hosting systems have outages now and then. Yuku hosted our database on Amazon EC2. If you remember what that was like, you'll agree that we're better off today than we've been at any prior point - and we'll continue working to improve.

I thought 2020 got to NT

You had to suspect it would come for us at some point. If this is peak 2020 for NikeTalk, I'd say we got off easy.

 

[frank 7he t4nk]

Ngl, thought I got IP banned for no reason and was distraught...

DMed multiple admins/mods asking what happened

 

[Mark Antony]

For the life of me I don't understand why some folks even come back.

 

[Public Enemy]

Me all day yesterday

And today, ****.

I just kept hoping

 

[D StaXX]

I really thought I was IP banned. I was thinking what the hell did I do?
We back fellas!

 

[D StaXX]

Ngl, thought I got IP banned for no reason and was distraught...

DMed multiple admins/mods asking what happened

Same bro.

 

[had pants]

 

[ccastro02]

Glad to back!

 

[Bert.]

Glad we’re back

must’ve tried to visit 100 times last 2 days

 

[andoneflip]

Happy NT is back I missed it

 

[daruma]

same with some other user on twitter, i thought work finally banned NT... but nope, WE BYKE!!!