BlenderArtists.org is Down For the Weekend

Published by Bart on May 18th, 2007 in Community

Bad news! Due to a remote shutdown and a vacation of the main contact person, BlenderArtists.org will be unavailable until Monday. Roel Spruit, the 'manager' of BlenderArtists, assured me that they'll be back :) If in the mean time you're going cold turkey and you need to post on a forum, I can recommend the Blender forum on CGTalk.

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1 Goofster May 18th, 2007 at 6:24 pm

Man, how long did it take you to find such an appropriate image? :)

Technical info for the curious: I wanted to type a command that I know was in the "arrow up" cache of the terminal. Unfortunately a circuit in head decided otherwise and pressed enter while the "poweroff" command was showing…. ouch!

Anyway, the server has a remote powerswitch, but because we switched hosters recently I don't have the information to use that switch =/

summary: stupid, stupid goofster!
2 Bart May 18th, 2007 at 6:32 pm

I bet your brain was already frantically sending nerve 'cancel' commands to your finger while your fingertip was already traveling downward, unable to stop anymore.. Been there, done that. I hope you'll still enjoy your weekend! :)
3 TKR101010 May 18th, 2007 at 6:34 pm

I was wondering why I wasn't able to access the site earlier. Now I know. Guess the puts a dampener on the Weekend Challenge this weekend. Last weekend's was awesome, with many great entries. :)

Looking forward to it being back up soon.

Have a good weekend all! :)
4 Googleplexer May 18th, 2007 at 7:59 pm

Yeah, too bad about the Weekend Challenge. Maybe we could post the theme here and then have two weekends to work on it?
5 Wereaser May 18th, 2007 at 7:59 pm

For a moment I thought something had blown up. :D I'm glad to hear that nothing worse happened.
6 Bart May 18th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

If someone could mail me all the information about the weekend challenge, then I'll be happy to put up a post to host it.
7 MagicMyshu May 18th, 2007 at 8:07 pm

poop.
8 G7Pro May 18th, 2007 at 8:16 pm

Magi Myshu, does that mean that 'Poop' is the weekend challenge?
9 Dwee dee May 18th, 2007 at 8:25 pm

Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10 Nebular May 18th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

My God! I was freaking out, heh.
11 Alden May 18th, 2007 at 9:39 pm

I was a little worried when I was trying to get on at school, and later couldn't get on at home. By now I was thinking that it was down for good. Ahh, I love blendernation…
12 p00f May 18th, 2007 at 9:56 pm

Ha ha!

Thanks bart…

I assumed I was banned, or some hacker had me looking at a squid proxy…

After trying various socks, proxies, and the tor network I gave up and came here.

this story ended my paranoia!

have a nice day everyone… hope we all make it until monday :)

Blend Nation rules!! :)
13 Rambo May 18th, 2007 at 10:30 pm

Cold turkey, that's a good one!
What the heck were you up to anyway? The site was running slow for 30 minutes B4 it went down for the count.
I thought I might have been banned too.
14 OBI_Ron May 18th, 2007 at 10:46 pm

Calm down everyone!! - Get on over to the Wiki and read up! Also, don't forget about all of the BSOD documents you have been putting off reading.

Have a nice weekend!
15 Antiwhine May 18th, 2007 at 11:48 pm

Yah, now is the time to actually start using Blender, yay! :P
16 ledluver23 May 19th, 2007 at 12:58 am

A whole weekend without blenderartists.org!This s gonna be a long weekend lol. If it wasn't for blender nation i would still be trying to figure out the problem lol.
17 dwatts May 19th, 2007 at 1:03 am

@ MagicMyshu: spot on…
18 Aligorith May 19th, 2007 at 2:24 am

Right… this explains why I suddenly started having trouble accessing BA.org last night. Oh well, at least this means that the server will get a break for the weekend ;)

Aligorith
19 Felix_Kütt May 19th, 2007 at 3:56 am

@Aligorith: heheh, now thats the right spirit!!! >.
20 theeth May 19th, 2007 at 6:15 am

Well, I was supposed to receive the new theme (for the WC) by pm, so unless the last winner sends it to me otherwise, I'd propose we just cancel out this week end's challenge. :|

Martin
21 Lasphere May 19th, 2007 at 9:26 am

That Confirmed mt supsision.. Man.. I got this threath that I have too check.. man. :(
22 Mal May 19th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

TRY OUT THE BUILT-IN GAMES ENGINE ( press P in 3D window )

As the excellent BlenderArtist forum is down, if you're looking something to do, take 30 minutes to try out one of Blenders greatest, and least tried out, features - the Game Engine.

Here's the link to the Blender BSoD on the GE…

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BSoD/Introduction_to_the_Game_Engine

You can still use your modelling / texturing skills with the GE - you just get saved the hours rendering time! No programming or art skills are required to complete the tutorial.

If anyone gives it a go, post your feedback ( to hopefully encourage other Blender 3D artists to try it out! )

Enjoy…
Mal
23 Goofster May 19th, 2007 at 2:05 pm

@Rambo:
Yeah it was slow, that's what I was trying to fix when I screwed up
24 super greatness wu-man May 20th, 2007 at 11:40 pm

we are obivously in the hands of a madman,
i say we have a vote of no confidnece in Goofster,
and move the powers of blenderartists.org/forum to the only one capaible of such a responcibilty….super wu-man,

vote for super wu-man in the upcoming blender artists forum owner elections…and i promise all your wildest dreams will come true

vote for super-wu-man for elections 2007….
25 loramel May 21st, 2007 at 8:34 am

As winner of the last WC i was supposed to provide a topic for the next challenge. First my problem was, that I was without internet access for 4 days starting from last thursday (mountain wilderness :)), but now it seems that i hadn't any chance of submitting a topic anyways.
As BA is still down as of this writing, maybe teeth can give me some hints about going on.
26 Goofster May 21st, 2007 at 9:46 am

Loramel, in an earlier comment theeth suggested we cancel this weekend's challenge. That seems like a good idea, once the site is up again you can PM theeth with a new topic for the upcoming weekend.

Roel
27 Joeri May 21st, 2007 at 9:47 am

Crazy computers, always with the crashing…. :(
28 loramel May 21st, 2007 at 10:35 am

@goofster

sounds ok for me. all the best in getting up the site again.