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Nickb missing?
Prakash and I help moderate nickb's NewMogul.com, which has been down for a day or so. We haven't heard from him for over 40 days, and cannot reach him by phone or email. Does anyone have any information on his whereabouts? (For those who are new to Hacker News, nickb is one of its oldest members: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickb )
- berrow 17y agoI hope it can be resolved soon. I am really missing New Mogul
- kirubakaran 17y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173683 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173683 :-)
- miles 17y agoThanks, kirubakaran! In that post, folks were worried after missing him for a week (which shows how valuable his presence is!) - he hasn't been seen here or at his own NewMogul.com for over 40 days now.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agowow. seems like just a few months ago.
- sant0sk1 17y agonickb == _why?
- staunch 17y agoHe's already pg, so he can't be _why.
- andreyf 17y agoSurely, he can be both!
- kyro 17y agoThey outed him, too, and discovered his real name to be Nicholas B-something.
- unalone 17y agoI thought nickb was a pseudonym as well. There was a conversation wherein one of the HN biggies hinted he was a well-known tech person who didn't want his name getting in the way of conversation. I could be misremembering, though.
- gaius 17y agoI am Spartacus.
- notaddicted 17y agoI am really missing my NewMogul :S. If I were to guess he is probably just too busy to go through email, and doesn't know NewMogul is down. If anyone knows him personally please call him and let him know.
- bsaunder 17y agoHe hasn't commented on HN in 48 days.
- prakash 17y agoMore than NM, we want to make sure if everything is ok with NickB.
- notaddicted 17y agoIt is back up :D
- mcxx 17y agoThere has to be a great party somewhere. I guess nickb and _why are attending.
- shard 17y agoThose people party hard. Lance Davis was there and didn't want to leave either.
- adrianwaj 17y agoFrom NM's whois, he's based in Ottawa, Canada (there's an exact address in fact). Someone who lives nearby can check in with Prakash or Miles and then do some knocking or doorbelling.
- prakash 17y agoLeft a VM. called a couple of numbers. Not sure if that is his current address.
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- ojbyrne 17y agoI've met him (in Ottawa). He hasn't responded to emails since early July. That address is a multi-unit building. I don't see that it's really appropriate for me to go knock on his door though. There is a thing called privacy and he does have family.
- morbidkk 17y agowho's next? bad one but It reminded me of Atlas Shrugged
- atourino 17y agoWho is John Galt?
- BrentRitterbeck 17y agoI believe he did say at one point that he was working for a startup. Maybe they hit crunch time.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoDemo Day was yesterday, so I doubt PG had time to manage two accounts.
- racerrick 17y agoNew Mogul is great. Hope this gets resolved. It's hosted at Godaddy. The domain is current. And it's not that he didn't pay a hosting bill - when that happens at Godaddy they make the site forward to a godaddy page. That means that someone manually took the site down.
- rcoder 17y ago> That means that someone manually took the site down. Since the News.YC code (which NewMogul also uses) runs in a single Scheme process, it could have shut down for any number of reasons: it might have crashed, failed to start after a server reboot, been killed by the OS or hosting provider due to a memory leak, etc. I don't know what kind of monitoring nickb might have set up, but if he's not responding to personal email or phone calls, it seems reasonable that he simply doesn't/can't know that the site is down.
- adrianwaj 17y agoSomething's happened to Nickb, but he'll bounce back eventually.
- gmate 17y agoDo you know or are you guessing? I've called him, emailed, etc. but no answer. He went radio silent a few weeks ago, was back in contact, and now again radio silent. If you do know what's up, maybe fill us in. Some of us here in Ottawa are a tad worried.
- adrianwaj 17y agoIt's an educated guess. If something had happened seriously to him, his family would be attending to it on a practical level. If so, I'd have expected them to have contacted someone already in the online community via his emails or by his direction. That expectation may be wrong, but you'd expect him to at least shoot a message out somehow already. So either something extremely bad has happened and news hasn't got out, or he'll bounce back in some way. I think the latter. Furthermore, by the removal of NM's submissions of NickB, there could be a _why scenario: maybe he's wanting to rearrange his life: hopefully for positive reasons. OTOH if something serious has happened, we could provide emotional support: but he might not want that.
- brandon272 17y agoHopefully he's okay.
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- utx00 17y agounsubscribe
- anigbrowl 17y agoI was wondering what had happened to NM as well. Another vote for doorbelling, and good wishes.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoNewmogul is back up, but: http://www.newmogul.com/submitted?id=nickb http://www.newmogul.com/submitted?id=nickb http://www.newmogul.com/threads?id=nickb http://www.newmogul.com/threads?id=nickb
- peterwwillis 17y agoPeople tend to relate their whereabouts to people they know IRL more often than those they communicate with online. If you don't know where someone is, you ask their friend, their parents, their wife, co-workers, etc as the amount of socially-relevant information (such as location) will be much greater and with a larger history of previous knowledge in those person IRL than those met online. After all, why does Markus in Timbuktu need to know you vacation in the hamptons every 6 months when you've got your Crackberry on you for the duration? Markus' co-workers, family members, and friends will be much more aware of such information. And sometimes people need a break from the internet.