Is SFFNet down?

[ksmith]

Haven't been able to get in all morning.

Comments

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

Oh, noes! Where will you go for your author slapfight fix? ;-)

We're trying to figure out if rarelylynne can get access to the SFF.net now that she's an Affiliate SFWA member.

[mindyklasky.livejournal.com]

It's down for me - has been for at least two hours.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I also. Can't remember the name of the twitter(?) feed they use to announce problems. And I don't do twitter anyway.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I forget about the Twitter feed. You don't need to be a member. Just go to the Twitter homepage and search on "SFFNet."

RAID failure, and troubles bringing the system back up. Hosted sites are still available, but News, Mail, and Chat are down.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I believe so. She should be able to join in any case. Some private groups may reamin off-limits, but I don't recall which.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I'm going through email withdrawal...

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

If you check the status.sff.net page, they've been updating that as well.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Hell, I'd have to Google to find the Twitter homepage . . .

(Luddites backwards-R Us.)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Is there a link on the SFFNet homepage? I tried searching for "status" and couldn't find it.

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

Hmm. It doesn't appear that there is a link. I just remembered the address from a previous outage. Wonder if someone should recommend it?

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Yes. There are some areas only available to the Associate and Active members, but she should get access.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

It would be a good idea, methinks. I know Twitter is almost ubiquitous, and it is useful, but the first thing I did was go to the SFFNet homepage and search for news there.

[delkytlar.livejournal.com]

Unless things have changed, nothing on sff.net is off-limits to Affiliate members. I was an Affiliate for a long time before making Associate, and had the run of the place.

However, since SFWA has essentially pulled out of sff.net, I doubt they make it a priority to get their new members the proper credentials. The Executive Director still believes in sff.net as a viable forum, so she should probably check with Jane to get those sff.net credentials. They are very worth having (more so than anything else coming out of SFWA these days).

[mindyklasky.livejournal.com]

And it's back up, for me (at least, I got *some* mail; I assume that's all there was...)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I now have mail, but no newsgroups.

I bet those guys were up all night...