Aw C'mon PBase

Things have seemed ok for the last couple days...

Jon.

There is an update dated 22OCT speaking to the updated hit counter. It is apparently their highest priority. All of the image views since the outage will be reflected once they have this new system up and running.

http://www.pbase.com/m​essage.html

I've been with PBase for 4 years and I'm really sorry to say this but when my current subscription expires next October, so do I.

I truly love the ability to customize the CSS display and I do like the interface for moving and naming individual images. I also like the ease of browsing other members and being able to contact them. Lastly, the comment management area is the best of any site that I've seen.

All that said, the site is routinely brutally slow and this last disaster confirms to me that the infrastructure is woefully deficient and not to be trusted. Honestly, is UPS on the servers that new an idea?

I've rarely used their customer service but the horror stories are legion.

Putting it all together, I recently moved all my model galleries to Zenfolio. It offers way less in terms of display options and doesn't get near the hits of PBase. I slo miss the forums and comment management but, all in all, it looks to be a more reliabe, better operated site. When and if they add a community forum and a "favorites" option, they'll blow PBse away. At least I hope so.

And it's down again... WTF?

Jon.

Jon Foster wrote in post #8920570
And it's down again... WTF?

Jon.

Working fine at my end..

It was actually working very fast when I uploaded a PAD image earlier tonight.

It's back again. I uploaded one file earlier, processed another, tried to upload it and got a message about the system being offline again and when it came back it would be in read only mode. The date stamp on the message was from last night (10-28-09). I've uploaded one more file since it's been back.

Jon.

johngalt_ny wrote in post #8917959
When and if they add a community forum and a "favorites" option, they'll blow PBse away. At least I hope so.

There is a community forum at zenfolio. It's at
http://forums.zenfolio​.com/forums/
There's a separate log in for the forums.

Also, there is a favorites option of sorts. Check out "collections" which functions as a favorites and you can have your favorites in a gallery structure.

I recently moved to zenfolio and find it structure a bit alien at times and hard to get used to (a bit), but I think you'll find most of what you want there.

Thanks Suchin.

I'll take a look

Has anyone noticed how quickly Pbase now loads after the big crash??

Just checked it out - 6:30 EDT - and it literally "pops" onto the screen. Certainly very fast..... at this point in time .

yogestee wrote in post #9047987
Has anyone noticed how quickly Pbase now loads after the big crash??

Let's hope it stays this way..