Reblogged from: BookLikes
Hello BookLikers.
BookLikes have encountered some temporary issues recently but we’re on air again!
BookLikes is live & running and broadcasting here and on social channels again. We have experienced some technical problems recently but we’d like to assure you that we’re doing all to sort them out to make BookLikes stable and fast again.
We know you’ve been struggling some hard times with BL recently. We owe you a big thank you for staying with us and supporting the site. BookLikes Bloggers are an amazing community and we hope to requite with our full engagement in making BookLikes better and better.
One more time sorry for this uncomfortable situation and for any inconvenience that you’ve experienced.
As always, we appreciate all the feedback. Please leave us a comment below or mail to Kate at kate@booklikes.com. We’ll do all to help and support.
All the best.
The BookLikes Team
Original post:
BrokenTune.booklikes.com/post/1504041/letter-to-booklikers-we-re-running-broadcasting-again
Broken Tune's Blog 
Amazing to get a message at last but too late really. I’m enjoying wordpress a lot but sad for booklikes as that’s where I started to blog and found new online friends like yourself.
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Yes, same here! I have a lot of love for BL, always will have, simply because they allowed me to experiment with the blogging side of life within a safe and absolutely amazing community.
Even if BL gets their act together, WP will be the new home for me, too.
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I will miss BL if it goes. I like the people and the set up, if on,y it would work at a reasonable speed.
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I hear you. It’s been down since Friday and, according to Kate#s post on FB, they’re performing some major maintenance. We’ll see if it helps.
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Still down. No sooner had I seen the ‘We’re back!’ post than it went down. If it wasn’t so tragic it would be funny😀
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I hope this is part of a bigger maintenance and bug fixing action. It is, again, daft that they didn’t give people a heads up on this, but as whole I hope BL will survive this – irrespective of my own future with (or without) it.
Love your blog title, btw. 🙂
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I know, it’s ridiculous. They make a post to say they’re sorry for the the site issues but they’re back now…then it all goes offline completely with no warning. I’m actually quite vexed about it all and this is just anothere (possibly final) nail in the coffin.
Thanks 🙂 My real blog is at http://thepemberleylibrary.blogspot.co.uk/ but I can’t work out how to get it to show when I comment on WP blogs. THere’s only wp, twitter and facebook sign ins. I’d get a WP blog myself if I wasn’t so comfy (and familiar) with Blogger. I’ve got another one at http://silver-thistles.blogspot.co.uk/ 😛
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Well, if I haven’t already, I’ll add both your blogs to my Bloglovin account. That way I can read and comment without the limitations of being based in WP. 😀
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I can’t even get onto BL right now. Is it just me, or are they down again. I never saw the original post. This doesn’t bode well for my reviewing slump, much like everyone else, but I guess I’ll just have to focus on my own blog and re-post at BL if they ever come back up.
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Nope, BL is down and has been for the last few hours from what I can tell.
I have been spending some time experimenting with and formatting old posts on WP. Gonna leave BL be for the weekend and try again on Monday.
You’re right, tho, this is not helping with reading or reviewing slumps.
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I tried a few hours ago & it said BL went offline. I hope everything will sort out soon. I feel like now I’m lost haha..I just known BL for a month give & take… and I already started to love them & now this happened.. Maybe I should play around here for a while 🙂 Thanks for sharing this!
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Yeah, we’ll see what happens. The fact that Kate has returned to BL is a good sign. The fact that the site is currently down and they haven’t announced a scheduled maintenance downtime is not. I’m sorry for new BookLikers like yourself who are just left without any information.
I hope they sort this out soon.
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I find it ironic that the site went all 522 on me when I started to comment on the original post.
Words are cheap and they have broken theirs too many times for me to just “grin and bear it”. Maybe if I see continual posts by Kate and some real, long term stability of the site, I might keep crossposting there. But it is just too late for me. I’ve spent most of November and will be spending December, making WP my new home. Booklikes crashed and burned and I’m not sure I want to rebuild even if things get cleaned up.
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For all their talk, The message today should have been about their obviously planned outage. It is common website practice to announce maintenance outages.
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I did message Kate on FB and asked that put a post up if they plan to do maintenance.
I’m going to give them the benefit of probably being overwhelmed with responding and trying to fix things as soon as possible this weekend, but yeah, giving a heads up on scheduled downtime is a basic requirement.
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That was one of my requests in the comment section:
Tell us about outages ahead of time
Sigh …
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Same here. I had the 522 just after reading the original post. And, yes, WP will be my new home. I might satellite back to BL on a regular basis if they improve their act.
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I never even saw their original post and can’t get on now but I’m glad someone has finally acknowledged our existence. I’m going to continue with my blog because right now I don’t trust them very much.
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I still have my account over there but haven’t bothered with it for several weeks due to instability. This is good news.
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Yes. Kate is back at BL and they are promising to bring the site back up to full speed and fix the bugs. Only time will tell. My focus will stay on WP as I’m looking forward to maybe experiment with non-book blogging (don’t know, yet).
BL needs to actually show they are going to make the site work. In any case, there will always be a shadow of a doubt going forward.
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There is some sort of sweet irony about *this* post on your WordPress site. Like an unintentional (or intentional) inside joke.
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Quite intentional, I assure you.
I’m sad to say, though, that the link from BL to WP did not carry over my added comment saying this was too little, too late.
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That’s interesting, although talk is cheap, so without some action, I’m personally past giving them the benefit of the doubt.
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Agreed. There needs to be some serious follow through and, equally important, engagement by BL with the remaining community.
Like I posted on GR, it does not change my plans with respect to the WP blog, which I am actually forward to developing into something more coherent.
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