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SlideShare Outage Will Be Due To Global Warming

56 points by jaip 16y ago

spekode_ 16y ago
The explanation for the server outage is 'maintenance.' The gibberish that follows is a string of un-funny non-sequiturs. YMMV.
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- Clarity1992 16y ago
  Completely agree. The only explanation I can think of for that being posted is that the writer is sufficiently senior that no-one wants to lose their job by telling him it isn't funny, or worse, it just didn't occur to him to bounce it around the office beforehand for a humour benchmarking.
aeden 16y ago
Wait a second, at one point it says the interns are unpaid, and then it says they'll withhold their paychecks? If SlideShare can't even be consistent with their story about whether or not their interns are paid how am I supposed to trust them with my most awesome bullet-point laden PowerPoint slides??
- masklinn 16y ago
  > Wait a second, at one point it says the interns are unpaid, and then it says they'll withhold their paychecks? Why yes, haven't you ever heard people asking for their invitations to be refunded?
vegasbrianc 16y ago
We hope the Apple tree farm will not infest the server room during this time nor an Android UFO landing. :) Great way to spin a planned server outage!
ErrantX 16y ago
No. I think this possibly the more useless explanation ever. shrug
- expertmind 16y ago
  Get some sense of humor.
  - ErrantX 16y ago
    What's that? But, seriously, it wasn't even funny - just a little incomprehensible. Certainly unlikely to make sense to the vast majority of their users.
happywolf 16y ago
I appreciate a short and concise explanation as I have heard enough 'stories' in my day job.
wildmXranat 16y ago
What's next? The Solar solstice has caused mass downtime; stay tuned. Eeek.
zach6 16y ago
Penguins are nasty. They bite!
jasonkester 16y ago
This is what my travel blogging site looked like during our server migration a couple weeks back: http://www.blogabond.com/maintenance.html http://www.blogabond.com/maintenance.html I like this sort of informal notice a lot more than the corporate boilerplate you tend to see most of the time.

56 points by jaip 16y ago

The explanation for the server outage is 'maintenance.' The gibberish that follows is a string of un-funny non-sequiturs. YMMV.

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Clarity1992 16y ago
Completely agree. The only explanation I can think of for that being posted is that the writer is sufficiently senior that no-one wants to lose their job by telling him it isn't funny, or worse, it just didn't occur to him to bounce it around the office beforehand for a humour benchmarking.

aeden 16y ago

Wait a second, at one point it says the interns are unpaid, and then it says they'll withhold their paychecks? If SlideShare can't even be consistent with their story about whether or not their interns are paid how am I supposed to trust them with my most awesome bullet-point laden PowerPoint slides??

masklinn 16y ago
> Wait a second, at one point it says the interns are unpaid, and then it says they'll withhold their paychecks? Why yes, haven't you ever heard people asking for their invitations to be refunded?

vegasbrianc 16y ago

We hope the Apple tree farm will not infest the server room during this time nor an Android UFO landing. :) Great way to spin a planned server outage!

ErrantX 16y ago

No. I think this possibly the more useless explanation ever. shrug

expertmind 16y ago
Get some sense of humor.
- ErrantX 16y ago
  What's that? But, seriously, it wasn't even funny - just a little incomprehensible. Certainly unlikely to make sense to the vast majority of their users.

happywolf 16y ago

I appreciate a short and concise explanation as I have heard enough 'stories' in my day job.

wildmXranat 16y ago

What's next? The Solar solstice has caused mass downtime; stay tuned. Eeek.

zach6 16y ago

Penguins are nasty. They bite!

jasonkester 16y ago

This is what my travel blogging site looked like during our server migration a couple weeks back: http://www.blogabond.com/maintenance.html http://www.blogabond.com/maintenance.html I like this sort of informal notice a lot more than the corporate boilerplate you tend to see most of the time.