Deimos Fawkes at Subnova wrote today that the server outage that coincided with the appearance of the second Halo 2 Update in their forum is actually the result of hardware problems with their scavenged-parts webserver, and not a connectivity or bandwidth issue.
Other sites, including Rampancy and the Junkyard, made copies so Bungie fans could read the update; in the future, I expect everyone will be holding to the one-week-exclusivity rule used for the original Halo updates and mentioned by Louis Wu at HBO recently.
Subnova appears to be recovering from its hardware problems at this moment; the latest Bungie Weekly Update by Frankie is now visible in its original location; as such, we'll be hiding our local copy until Friday unless Subnova goes down again.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Eep...
I think I was misunderstood.
The exclusivity period is about 48 hours, not one week. The last time around, all sites NOT receiving the update archived and made public a copy on their own servers by Sunday night or Monday morning - the exclusive was just for the weekend.
I suppose we (the community) should have hashed this out once again before these actually started; it's been over 2 years, and people forget. :)
Claude Errera
Bah...
In reply to: Eep...That was me. Safari seems to have logged me out of R.net - it's been so long since I was logged out that I didn't notice.
narcogen
Boo, Hiss
In reply to: Bah......for not logging on :)
Yes, the "one week" exclusivity thing bothered me for a few minutes, since I didn't remember it being that long before, although frankly I wouldn't be opposed to the idea.
I looked back in my emails to try and find where the exclusivity was originally laid down, but came up dry. Another old webhand told me it had been a week, so I took that on faith and wrote it up that way.
Perhaps I'll just split the difference and put the local copy back up in a day or so, assuming Subnova stays up.
Claude Errera
Boo, Hiss...
In reply to: Boo, HissFor HAVING to log on. :)
The exclusivity was hashed out on Fractalus' admin server, back in the day. I don't think we passed around emails - and it was silly of me, in retrospect, to expect folks who HADN'T been privy to those discussions to notice the pattern laid down years ago. (That is - if you were observant, you might have noticed that the updates went up on other sites 2 days later... but the only record of that still existing (I think) is HBO, and the only way to SEE that record is to search the news for posts about the update, and then cross-correlate that with the dates of the updates themselves.
A crapload of work for zero payoff - not something I'd expect ANYONE to do. :)
(You can, however, now USE that method to confirm the 'weekend exclusivity' rule, if you so choose. :) )
narcogen
Aha
In reply to: Boo, Hiss...Ahh.. well, I actually was privy to the discussions back on that forum-- in fact, I think it's still around, as is the site for the Pax Nimbus group, although I've long since forgotten my login.
But that does explain why I didn't have the information on the cycle in email form.
BTW, the session cookie r.net logins use should be extraordinarily long-lasting; once logged in, you probably wouldn't need to login again, unless you switch to another browser or computer; opening a new session destroys the cookie.