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Clever "down for maintenance" page
- campnic 16y agoThe perfect storm, I read the message while listening to 'waiting for your conference to start' elevator music.
- Hates_ 16y agoCute story, but I can't see which bit is clever? Perhaps it's an inside joke I just don't get :(
- confuzatron 16y agoWell, my guess is that if you get annoyed that the site is down, you'll blame the panda rather than the guys who run the site.
- leftnode 16y agoHighlight the header, you'll see "That's what she said" after "Going down for a bit". As in, she's going down (on you) for a bit.
- pclark 16y agothanks for the explanation of what thats what she said, meant.
- leftnode 16y agoNot sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but because there's many non-American/native English speakers, the pun might not be as obvious.
- nopassrecover 16y agoIt might be because I have a pretty good screen but I had no need to highlight the header. Still it's clever in its informality, not its technical prowess.
- pixelbath 16y agoNo, my screen sucks, and I see it. It's a different color than the bar.
- dlib 16y agoThe first heading: "_bear_ with us".
- hockeybias 16y agoI find the phrase 'Bear with us' and a reference to a panda being with them at the company office to be clever. I find the slightly hard to see 'That's what she said' text tha following 'Going down for a bit' clever; but chidlish. I see the text at the bottom of the page that references the panda being named a 'cute overload'-quality name ('Pickles') as being clever.
- maxniederhofer 16y agoToo verbose for my taste. Here's a good sample of effective maintenance pages: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/12/effective-maintenance-pages-examples-and-best-practices/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/12/effective-mainten...
- heyitsnick 16y agoThis page is in that list :) Under heading 4 as the shining example of page that "the same look and feel as your regular site."
- maxniederhofer 16y agoYup. Link was to highlight that there are many other examples of more effective maintenance pages than the one from OP.
- statenjason 16y agoiStockPhoto's maintenance page (heading 5) rocks
- muxxa 16y agoI like how the colour scheme is not the signature grooveshark yellow - an attempt to limit brand tarnish?
- ErrantX 16y agoToo wordy; I like the idea of status updates (in this case powered by Twitter) on the page though. Neat.
- peteysd 16y agoI like the nearly-hidden "That's what she said." Perhaps not the most appropriate, but still funny.
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- biggitybones 16y agoThey just don't care and love to have fun, and I love them for it. My roommate, out of undying love for them, sent their team a case of Brooklyn lager just because. They responded with a full video of someone dressed as a shark as a thank you, and he just got an awesome Grooveshark t-shirt in the mail yesterday. This is how you build cult followers. http://help.grooveshark.com/a-special-grooveshark-thanks-to-mike/ http://help.grooveshark.com/a-special-grooveshark-thanks-to-...
- epochwolf 16y agoThat's awesome. Just seeing that got me interested in what their product. Definitely impressed. I might just pay for it.
- biggitybones 16y agoIt's exactly why I tell everyone around me about GrooveShark if they mention Pandora or another music service. As soon as they get a BB Storm app I may not need my iPod again.
- minouye 16y agoThey rock and have built a great product. This thread gives some more insight into just how awesome and open they are: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c2udg/iama_grooveshark_developer_ama/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c2udg/iama_grooveshark...
- dolinsky 16y agoLooks like they need another kind of bear for their database connections. http://skitch.com/dolinsky/ddc1i/database-error http://skitch.com/dolinsky/ddc1i/database-error
- mattlanger 16y agoI'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that not everyone would find a "that's what she said" joke all that clever, or even all that appropriate for a business to subtly present on its site. And I think this speaks to one of the points I tried to make here (http://langer.tumblr.com/post/538680961 http://langer.tumblr.com/post/538680961), which is that ideas like this can come off as witty or clever in such a male-dominated industry because most of us are tone-deaf to the many ways in which another person might find something like this offensive.
- crux_ 16y agoI don't even think it's going out on a limb. Except, of course, it seems to be. I wonder how many people even realize that the running "that's what she said" gag from The Office is almost exclusively a meta-joke about Michael's constant inappropriateness...
- m0th87 16y agoMy hypothesis is that in order to build a cult following, you sort of have to alienate others. Maybe it's crude, but it's part of the equation. The alternative is to take the "corporate" route and build a boring, conservative 404 that could not possibly offend anyone, but would not possibly entertain anyone either.
- hugothefrog 16y agoInstinctively, I disagree with you. But you might be right. I may even agree with you, intellectually. What evidence do you have to support your hypothesis? Alienation is a very powerful emotional force, used by all sorts of parties to all sorts of ends. Are there 'positive' forms of alienation? Is there not a middle path that can be taken that doesn't alienate, but also doesn't bore?
- m0th87 16y agoIf a comedian worried about offending people, s/he wouldn't be funny. If Apple worried about alienating large swaths of the marketplace, it wouldn't have a rabid following. If there weren't a "positive" effect of alienation, people wouldn't consciously cause it. Maybe it's a side-effect of good marketing. Or maybe it props up the sort of us vs. them mentality associated with cult followings. Or maybe I'm getting too philosophical, and everything I'm saying is bullshit.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoIt's not clever - it's puerile, and has no place in a professional organisation. It's equivalent to giggling inanely when someone says "homo sapiens."