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What’s up with Stylegala.com?
21Jun2006 Filed under: Web Technologies Author: Steven TewWhat’s up with stylegala.com? David Hellsing sold the site earlier this month and ever since then the site has been progressively crumbling before my eyes.
Content is vanishing without explanation, the site search has been rendered useless, and there’s page upon page of false links and SQL errors.
Mostly it’s the forum that doesn’t work. The searches provide results but the links take me to pages devoid of content. Even manually trawling through the forum will show, say, 22 pages in a topic, but I’ll be damned if I can see content past page 4.
I’m happy to admit that I rely heavily on Stylegala. It’s a valuable and trusted resource and the first place I’ll look if I have a bug in my site. Stylegala’s forum holds a wealth of information about CSS issues, bugs and fixes; a pooling of knowledge from a friendly community willing to share and exchange practical experience. But all this information has vanished. Does anybody know what’s going on? I would post on the site to ask, but it won’t let me log in, and my name has vanaished from the members list.
David always said that he would vet who he sold the site to. He said he felt some responsibility to the community he helped to create. Now it seems he must simply have sold to the highest bidder because the new owner (sorry can’t remember your name and your introduction post has disappeared) openly admits that he bought Stylegala as a learning tool to help his graphic design company branch out into web design.
Hopefully this is all just a temporary glitch - teething problems - but come on new guy - get on top of this before the community deserts you. At least let us know what’s happened and when you expect things to be straightened out.
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tl
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Give the new guy a break will ya? The forum was under an upgrade, if you had READ anything on the site like you proclaim you do “I rely heavily on Stylegala.”
Ownership changes have their problems, sometimes it is not an easy transition, you look like all you want to do is stir up the hornet’s nest with a bunch of nonsensical crap.
mike
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:12 pm
AGREED!
KJ
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:38 pm
i agree. the site has definitely taken a turn for the worse. i rely on a few sites to my information from… ALA, stylegala, and one or two others, but stylegala more than anything else.
i saw the note about the forum updates, but who knows. i just hope they get their stuff together.
coyr
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Now Stylegala rocks!!! again. Some problems like i lost all my post, but doesn’t matter because it was only a few. I really sorry for all the user that lose their posts and topics and level and all this stuff. Let’s begin.
PM
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:56 am
For such an avid user of Stylegala you obviously missed an important news article regarding the forums
http://www.stylegala.com/news/200606/992.htm
ty
June 26th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Steven Tew,
Hi Steven, I regret to inform you that you will have to re-create your user account over at stylegala. You should be able to use the same log-in name as before, I could. But you will probably have to re-register.
Many of the posts including your past posts, are now attributed to Lost_User, because of some database back-up issues, or table re-writes is maybe more of the problem.
The forum is functioning normally again.
The website has more participation and contributors, despite the forum problem’s, and will continue to grow.
Steven Tew
June 27th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Thanks guys.
Obviously, I missed the “forum upgrade” post. Stylegala has a very fast content turn-over and this unfortunately means that items quickly drop from view. very few of us have time to monitor each and every site update so I hope people can understand how easily a post can be missed, especially on a forum that has lost its search functionality and generally isn’t functioning as it should.
Most of the discussion about my “What’s up with Stylegala.com?” post has taken place on stylegala.com where I apologised for missing the initial post. Praise to Simon (I now know his name) for the way he handled my rant, and to the fact that he agreed he should have highlighted the issues more clearly, possibly in the site masthead rather than in the comments of an old post.
I think I should explain that my intention wasn’t to ’stir up a hornets nest’. I think my points were genuine and fair, listing what was broken and asking if anybody new what was going on. Yes I was frustrated, but if you read my post again you’ll hopefully see that a lot of what I said was actually complimentary, understanding of how ownership changes can have teething problems, and in essence showing concern for the future of Stylegala rather than trying to pull it down.