State of the Springing

[sagacious_rage]

So it seems that in the last eight hours or so my personal Formspring situation has gotten worse. The lag between when I send a question and when somebody receives it has shortened from 2 hours to about 1/2 an hour (last time I tested), which is an improvement.

However, I have not received any questions from other players in about 24 hours. I have no idea if they will ever arrive (from what I understand, if they do ever get there, then I am in for QUITE THE SURPRISE as to what exactly Cailan was doing to Laica for all those hours, but I digress).

In addition, starting about eight hours ago, I can no longer answer any questions from my inbox at all. The only questions I've been receiving are the Question of the Day and the random Formspring ones you can generate if your inbox is empty. If I try to answer those, I get an error message. I then have the option to send the question to my followers, and answer it from my feed. But that is an incredibly awkward work around. And it only works if other people answer the question first.

Also, I've noticed that other people do not have the same lag issues that I do. And some people have much worse lag issues.

Over here, scarylady suggested maybe finding other options. I'm of two minds. On the one hand, I really love the cracky anarchy that Formspring seems to inspire. On the other hand, unless they get their act together like, yesterday, it's pretty much impossible to play any sort of coherent story line.

Twitter is an option, though the character limits are much much stricter than Formspring, and even those were a bit restrictive. There's also IRC. Or we could set up a comm on DreamWidth. I'd be willing to mod, though I'd probably need some assistance because of work and the fact that I've never RPed before. (I'm a fast learner, though!)

What do you guys think?

ETA: We now have http://blackcobalt.net:9090/?channels=fade_bar for in-character chatting and http://blackcobalt.net:9090/?channels=f_bOOC for more talk about what to do next. If you're into that sort of thing.

ETA 2: solitae and I are slowly starting to get questions. I just got @KahrinCousland's about going upstairs to lie down and @ReinarHawke's about ordering coffee and how crazy things are. So it looks like we're running about a day behind, give or take. Neither of us can actually answer questions yet, but it's an improvement, right?

ETA 3: ALL SYSTEMS ARE GO

Comments

[miri1984]

I have a problem in that I'm RPing a .... LOT of characters. IRC wouldn't be possible for me really because I'd have to log out and in too many times, as would twitter, and even DW to a certain extent. As it is I'm having to twoggle around like a mad thing to catch up on Formspring and that's even WITH the stupid time lag.

I'm assuming things will get better. Saga have you tried emailing Formspring and listing your problems? Perhaps they'll have a suggestion on how to fix it (or fix it themselves, which is what I'm ASSUMING they're trying to do)

[solitae]

I emailed them about my problems last night, and all I got was a form response about the downtime :(

[scarylady]

The IRC allows multiple browser windows logged in as each char. Praise be.

[darkrose]

Also multiple tabs of the same browser, which is nice, except that there's no way to tell which tab is which.

[scarylady]

I memorised left to right: Zev/Aedan/Ali I only cocked it up a couple of times

[visser]

TweetDeck- lets you have multiple accounts, longer posts, and it's EASY to keep track of everything. I know of people with bloody TWELVE ACCOUNTS *cough @Apostate_Anders* that use TweetDeck