Pen-Elayne on the Web

Comics Tomorrow, Blogskim Tonight

I love Bloglines' warnings of impending wossname. I'll be off doing something else tomorrow evening, most likely catching up on comics reading, because of the following announcement:

Bloglines will have a planned outage on Monday, December 19, 2005 in order to relocate to a new data center. Here's our planned schedule for tomorrow:

2:00pm Pacific Daylight Time: Your subscriptions will stop updating with new items.

4:00pm PDT: The Bloglines site will be completely offline. During this time you will not be able to access your account.

8:00pm PDT: The Bloglines site will be back online by this time. New articles posted during the outage will appear in your account.

We look forward to vastly improved hardware capacity and tons of elbow room for growth. Thank you for your patience during this outage.

We're not going to beat around the bush about this. Bloglines performance has sucked eggs lately. Why? In short, Bloglines has been busting at the seams like the Incredible Hulk.

All of us here at Bloglines have been foregoing sleep and social lives over the past several months to keep Bloglines running and preparing for our move to a new access center (with bigger britches and a very elastic waistline).

So hang tight because there's a light at the end of the tunnel. The move will happen soon; we'll keep you posted.

Personally I haven't had many problems with Bloglines at all, but I still think this is a very spiffy warning notice, and I could do with a bit more time away from the computer.