So I'm surfing various forums and decide to check out the "Big Purple & Pink"  and I see this :

QuoteSomething went wrong with our machine today, forcing a reboot. The machine is back, but now CHECKing out post table. We'll see you in several hours.

In the meantime, this is a great time to read our new columns on a new d20 campaign, reviewing or miniatures.

Alternatively, stop by the Gaming Index and rate a few games or enter some magazines that we don't have yet.

--4.30PM, PT

 Wonder what the reason is this time.

- Ed C.

Lots of things can go wrong with computers.

Nothing personal with you, Koltar, but are we going to make a thread every time another forum is down? :raise:

They certainly seem to have hit the peak of their hardware's ability to cope with the traffic, don't they?

Quote from: David JohansenThey certainly seem to have hit the peak of their hardware's ability to cope with the traffic, don't they?

Bannings all around! That should free up some traffick space.

Quote from: David JohansenThey certainly seem to have hit the peak of their hardware's ability to cope with the traffic, don't they?

They wouldn't have a problem if they got rid of the god-awful tangency. Rudest people I've ever experienced.

Quote from: pigames.netThey wouldn't have a problem if they got rid of the god-awful tangency. Rudest people I've ever experienced.

 I've been trying to avoid that section for the past few weeks.
 Sad thing is - not much interesting is going on in there roleplaying section.

- Ed C.

Quote from: KoltarI've been trying to avoid that section for the past few weeks.
 Sad thing is - not much interesting is going on in there roleplaying section.

- Ed C.

Well, there was quite a good thread started by some guy with a yellow sign as his avatar, called "What's the best homebrew you've encountered?" but... ah.

Personally I hope it's just a case of them pissing off a good hacker who's taking them down regularly.

HEY DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER WHEN SOMEONE SAID SOMETHING ON RPG.NET AND A MODERATOR BANNED THEM AND THEN SASSED THEM AND GOT SASSED BACK BY ANOTHER SOMEONE THEN THAT SOMEONE GOT BANNED WITH EVEN MORE SASS FLUNG BY ANOTHER MODERATOR BOY WHAT A BUNCH OF ASSHOLES THOSE FOLKS AT RPG.NET ARE I'M NEVER GOING BACK THERE AGAIN MAYBE I'LL TRY THIS FORGE WEBSITE EVERYONE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT I NEVER HEARD OF IT BUT I'LL GO THERE RIGHT AWAY AND SEE HOW IT IS AND THEN I'LL POST HERE AGAIN TELLING EVERYONE HOW SHITTY THAT SITE IS.

(Board cred +1,000,000)

Moriarty for the win!

Interestingly, not everybody around here's got a hate boner to polish. I mean, Nox has his forest of 'em, Pundit's got a good dozen or so irons in the fire, sure. I'm not saying they're a rarity around here. Hell, I've got a couple.

But on the other side of the coin, some of us happen to read and post at both sites. Knowing there is in fact an element who are interested in reading the Big Purple as well, some people might occasionally mention its periodic outages here. Sure, it brings some of the crazies out of the woodwork, but so does this shit...

"Narrativist play!" "Amber isn't a roleplaying game!" "Arabs!" "Andy Hackard!" "Socialism!"

C'mon, man. Don't grow a hate boner about dual citizenship, so to speak in a horribly overstretched metaphor. Go get your hate on about Shadowrun or something.

I'm with the Ape on this one.  I don't like tBP that much, but I do post there, and read threads on it.

As far as I can tell the OP was posting News, nothing more, nothing less.

And they have had quite a few crashes lately, so we are free to speculate as much as we want as too why. Just like if my neighbor's house burns down I'm free to stand on my front lawn with a cup of coffee in hand and go...

"them are some purdy flames. Wonder if he was storin' some naptha in the garage?"

I don't "Hate" the Big Purple and pInk ,  so much as I'm disappointed in that site and with them.  Thye letters/acronym RPG is in the title odf that site and forum - and they don't seem to care much about role playing games over there.

 In my original post  - I was just posting the news at most.

- E.W.C.

the think that gets me (as others have said) is that it isn't an RPG focused site anymore.

there are about 3 mil posts in the RPG related forums and 3.5 mil posts in Tangency.

It's clear that they are more worried about keeping the total number of users up (no matter why they are there), so they can make more mony off of ads.

That and I have found only a few interesting threads over there in the last couple years.

Quote from: McrowThat and I have found only a few interesting threads over there in the last couple years.

Clearly, you are anti-Exalted