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TVTropes Is Down

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  • You can change. You can.

    That is one way of putting it.

  • if u do convins fashist akwaint hiz faec w pavment neway jus 2 b sur

    Believe me, if Jim Profit wanted to come back here, he would. You can't run away from the dude, he's fucking everywhere.


    There's this FB page called Socialist Meme Caucus, ran by some British commies, which one of my party comrades regularly jacks off over. Jim has been banned and unbanned from it a couple of times already, I think.

  • I'm a damn twisted person

    Does he just type random phrases into google, find a forum about that phrase, join and then cause a fuss until he gets banned ad nauseum?

  • if u do convins fashist akwaint hiz faec w pavment neway jus 2 b sur

    He does regularly google his name, at least.

  • yea i make potions if ya know what i mean

    Jim Profit isn't a single person.

  • if u do convins fashist akwaint hiz faec w pavment neway jus 2 b sur

    Where'd you get that? I'm pretty sure he is.

  • yea i make potions if ya know what i mean

    Ive been told by a number of people that it's a shared alias.

  • if u do convins fashist akwaint hiz faec w pavment neway jus 2 b sur

    Hmmm, I dunno. The guy on his Youtube channel is one and the same, and his infatuation with MaoistRebel or whatever the hell he's called is consistent, wherever he shows up.


    If that's true, it must be one hell of a hivemind.

  • a little muffled

    There are definitely multiple people using the name, but it actually is mostly one guy, as far as I can tell.

  • Jim Profit is a character from some show, so he's not the only one using the name. But our Jim Profit is only one dude, not a shared account.
  • What they mean is that Jim Profit (as the poster, not as the character), has become a meme of sorts, and it's likely that his appearances freaking everywhere are because of people deliberately copying him.

  • edited 2013-04-30 20:42:34
    Nah, he's no meme. He keeps adding himself to meme sites and shit, but every time I've encountered him, it's been the same IP (or so I've been told) And he always posts a video about what happened shortly after.



    Unless, of course, shit changed, yo.
  • I'm pretty sure the BTL one is at least the same as the "main" guy, since he posted about it on YouTube.

  • edited 2013-08-11 22:05:59

    Welp, it's down again. Disregard that.

  • My apologizes for double posting and bumping this, but it seems TVTropes is down again.

  • Pokkity Pokkity Pokkity

    You mean you're not the only one where the site takes a stonking long time to load, refuses to recognize you and doesn't even acknowledge the existence of existing pages?


     


    Yeah, that's what's happening to me too...

  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    MyAnimeList is also currently down.

  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    Seems like TVT's doing some sort of upgrade.

  • BeeBee
    edited 2013-09-05 17:50:50

    There was a brief time this morning where you were treated to a different login page, which then posted to a nonexistent validation page.


    I get that site upgrades will involve some interim trouble and are best done while the site is offline, but why on earth you would replace a live page before even placing all the components it references is beyond me.  Work that shit out on a test domain.

  • edited 2013-09-05 18:08:03

    I hope they don't end up implementing another pointless change, such as hiding the discussion forums or removing colored text.

  • My arms are falling off!

    I think it's a sign of addiction when I keep trying to go to the wiki, forgetting that it's down.

  • edited 2013-09-05 18:25:51
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    Meh, I wouldn't care, unless it was another of Eddie's sudden strokes of vision. Otherwise - like one day without TVT was that much of a loss. (edit: it's a reply to ^^)

  • My arms are falling off!

    The removal of colored text killed the fun of the Umineko WMG pages. :( Oh well.

  • I think it is to remove the hottip markup. All the hottip cleanup pages were finished a day or two ago.

  • Is there a similar markup taking its place?  Because at the very least that's going to screw up Memes pages where each entry has to have an Explanation.

  • I get that site upgrades will involve some interim trouble and are best done while the site is offline, but why on earth you would replace a live page before even placing all the components it references is beyond me.  Work that shit out on a test domain.


    That always bugged me too. Eddie's often made changes that completely broke some functionality (like the time he accidentally made it so only banned users could post on the entire forum), which seems to suggest he just makes changes to the live site without testing them anywhere first.


    Like, hell, Heapers' Hangout is just a silly little forum, but even our admin tests things before he implements them on the actual site!


    It reminds me of those traffic signal collectors who go on about how they don't bother to ground their equipment, then turn around and complain about how they're always getting shocked.

  • ...he made it so that only banned users could post on the forum?  Amazing.

  • edited 2013-09-06 05:23:47
    A Mind You Do NOT Want To Read

    I know bugger all about TVTropes' source code, but that could have been as little as a few mistyped booleans (i.e. a 'true' where there's meant to be a 'false', or vice versa).


    But yeah, still doesn't excuse Eddie (or Gus, cause I think he's the one who actually writes most of the site's PHP code) from the responsibilities of proper debugging.

  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    I thought Gus passed away a while ago.

  • ^^ Yeah, it was pretty obvious he just fat-fingered something, but it was still an amusing thing to see.


    ^ I believe that's correct, insofar as Eddie can be considered a reliable source.

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