December 30, 2005 3:04 AM PST

Web services thrive, but failures outrage users

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Blogging, bookmark and photo sites exploded in 2005, but in recent weeks major failures left users stranded and frustrated.

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12 comments

Oh, my gosh!

Get a life people!!!
5 mins without blog, what a tragedy.

December 30, 2005 4:55 PM (PST) Like Reply Link Flag

No kidding!: Not to mention, YOU ARE NOT PAYING FOR THESE SERVICES!! How dare you get all bent out of shape when you don't even pay for the services you base your sad lives on?!? Get a friggen life and go outside you fat freaks.
Posted by thenet411 (415 comments ): December 30, 2005 6:19 PM (PST) Like Link Flag

Let's not forget the biggies ...: Let's not forget eBay repeatedly, and for days on end, acting like
a wheezing old clunker in dire need of a tune-up. (Oh, excuse
me, those were "temporary glitches.")
Posted by Griff in Fairbanks (8 comments ): December 30, 2005 7:41 PM (PST) Like Reply Link Flag

all insults aside: I've got a question - why exactly is Wordpress on the list of services? It's neither like Blogger or Typepad in that users need to depend on one common server's hardware and uptime. It's freely distrubuted software that bloggers maintain on their own servers.

Not only has Wordpress NOT failed, the 26th of December saw a whole new and imporved final version 2.0 - and it is SWEET.
Posted by annafil (2 comments ): December 31, 2005 11:04 AM (PST) Like Reply Link Flag

Funny thing....: .... I didn't know that Web 2.0 even existed. Maybe one of these
days, I'll take a look and see if it serves any really useful purpose.
Posted by Earl Benser (4342 comments ): January 2, 2006 3:06 AM (PST) Like Reply Link Flag

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