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May 9, 2008
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*update* the site is back up
We are having problems with one of our database servers, should be back shortly.
May 9, 2008 at 11:03 am
how long do you think? do you have any possible clue? if not i understand
May 9, 2008 at 11:05 am
When you make the changes, can you make me the winner of the Rachel Reinhardt contest? =D
May 9, 2008 at 11:08 am
10-20 minutes.
May 9, 2008 at 11:09 am
D’oh, thanks for the heads up.
May 9, 2008 at 11:29 am
Seems to be running nicely now :)
May 9, 2008 at 11:31 am
A few designers may find that a design they submitted during the problem period is missing. Please resubmit if this is the case.
Thanks for your patience, everyone.
May 9, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Couldn’t submit an entry w/ Opera
but could w/ Firefox – huh?
May 9, 2008 at 2:44 pm
There has been an open issue in Opera for a a while now, vote on http://99designs.uservoice.com for it.
May 10, 2008 at 2:25 am
I dont know why 99designs.com works on my dads laptop but not on my pc, I always have to logon to 99designs.com via a proxy. And only even sometimes through proxies it stops working. Its been really really slow for the past week
May 10, 2008 at 1:08 pm
I know of a contest holder that wants to end their contest early but does not know how. Can anyone help?
May 10, 2008 at 1:49 pm
did anyone else experience the 99designs page shrink down to a little 20 x 20 square with guarantee still big and readable about an hour or so ago? It actually first shrunk to about 60 x 60 then 2 seconds it was 40 x 40 then 2 seconds and it was 20 x 20. That was really odd and i tried to go back and it did go to the page i was viewing before but it was still 20 x 20. I had to exit out of my whole browser and leave for an hour and then when i came back on it was fine….that was weird, anyone know what that was about?
May 10, 2008 at 4:02 pm
pegatinas: sure – the contest holder can find the design they wish to award and click on ‘award prize’ to declare the winner and end the contest early.
May 10, 2008 at 4:03 pm
snugbrimm: woah… :) I believe there were some DNS problems effecting a lot of sites in the last 24 hours or so – it might have been something to do with that.
May 10, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Seems that “contest won” emails are not being sent out? Anyone notice this?
May 11, 2008 at 3:37 am
Paul, thank you very much. I think that was the problem. The CH wanted 6 designs so I guess they never thought of clicking on one to award the win.
Thanks again, it makes so much sense!
May 12, 2008 at 3:44 pm
@Nadia P: “winner announced” e-mails or “you have won a design prize” e-mails. i don’t ever get the “you have won a design contest prize” e-mails so i wouldn’t know but i haven’t gotten a “winner announced” e-mail in a long time either but contests have been won, so i just assumed they stopped sending the “winner announced” ones. i hope they are still on track with the “you have won” e-mails <:?
May 12, 2008 at 3:45 pm
how does sway get his face up there and i get some fruity pink design in mine…? unfair…
May 12, 2008 at 4:45 pm
snugbrimm: check out http://www.gravatar.com/ and upload a picture for your email address.
May 12, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Thanks Paul for the info!
May 13, 2008 at 6:20 am
Is anyone else getting the ‘invalid file format’ error when they try to upload a jpeg? It won’t let me upload a png or jpeg image file at the minute.
May 13, 2008 at 6:26 am
I can´t submit any entry, any body knows what´s happening?
May 13, 2008 at 6:30 am
Anyone else having trouble uploading? I am getting an error no matter what format my file is in or what browser I’m using…?
May 13, 2008 at 7:05 am
I cannot view any of the entries full page view. It doesn’t matter if it is a jpeg or png file. Firefox is my browser. I didn’t start having this problem until today.
May 13, 2008 at 7:30 am
I get a message “File uploaded in Screenshot or Thumbnail must be of type image/png, image/jpeg or image/gif” when I try to upload a design. Anybody? (I have tried all possible formats and different file sizes to no avail).
May 13, 2008 at 7:54 am
Thanks for the info Paul! Too bad I don’t have time right now, but peep this, I can’t upload pictures into contests! I get this message with all three file types: Errors Occurred:
File uploaded in Screenshot or Thumbnail must be of type image/png, image/jpeg or image/gif Didn’t start having this problem til today and I’m on Internet Explorer…
May 13, 2008 at 8:19 am
I think it is fair to assume that everyone is having the issue. No new entries posted in hours!
May 13, 2008 at 9:15 am
it looks like others are having the same problem with different contests too
May 13, 2008 at 9:21 am
I second that snugbrimm, unable to submit anything to any contest.
May 13, 2008 at 9:23 am
I also cannot upload any designs/file types using my Internet Explorer, and I keep getting that same error message when I try.
May 13, 2008 at 9:49 am
We are investigating the issue, should be fixed shortly.
May 13, 2008 at 10:20 am
The problem is fixed, sorry about that guys. If anyone requires a contest extension, please let support know.
May 13, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Thanks for the quick fix guys! that was scary…
May 13, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Trying to see if my new avatar shows
http://www.gravatar.com/)…. thanks for the link Paul :-)
May 14, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Who’s big idea was it to put “click to leave feedback” on the mouse rollover for each design?????
BRILLIANT!!!
May 15, 2008 at 11:25 am
pegatinas: Lachlan was experimenting with that idea, so I put it online without telling him ;)
May 17, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Was the site down for maintenance earlier today. I had trouble accessing the site for earlier.
May 28, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Email notifications (of any sort) do not appear to be working.
May 28, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Thanks Nadia – we had a disk failure which didn’t get picked up by any automatic monitoring but which prevented emails from going out.
They should have all been sent by now.
May 28, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Yep, seems to have caught up on messages now, thanks Paul.
May 28, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I’m trying to get onto 99designs.com, and I get as far as the splash page, showing popular designs and popular contests, but when I click login, my browser waits for a long time before displaying the ‘Connection timed out’ message.
Is anybody else experiencing this problem?
It’s been happening to me on and off for the last few weeks now, and was doing the same last night.
I can’t access http://www.99designs.com through either firefox or internet explorer. This has been happening all night for me, and it has continued this morning.
I can sometimes load the index page with popular designs and popular contests, but I can’t login or view any contests.
Is anybody else having such problems?
Cheers