Blythe from Gymblog posted some information:
A simple software upgrade that went very wrong has been what’s keeping the International Gymnast Magazine website frozen, according to the site’s online forum.
The homepage appears to be normal, aside from a large banner in white letters on a red background that reads, “International Gymnast Online is currently unavailable due to site maintenance. Please check back Jan. 1.†But the links don’t work, aside from the forum.
IG’s Amanda Turner posted this in the forum:
Fortunately we were able to do the upgrades and restore our database, but there is an issue with the article engine. No news when it will be fixed Hopefully ASAP!
We have quite a few stories waiting to go up. If this is not fixed by Friday, we may start posting them here on the forum!
Some subscribe to IG for a digital subscription to the magazine. Those customers must be ticked-off right now. I assume IG will make amends for the outage, if and when they ever get the site working again.
The major gymnastics magazine websites suck, IG included. (Though I have to admit, International Gymnast is the best of the bunch, when it’s working.)
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IG is totally the best gymnastics magazine, for whatever that is worth considering how irrelevant printed magazines are these days, but the best gymnastics website? Not anymore. While I applaud their commitment to international coverage, does anyone really want to read an interview with a random Swiss guy, beyond his immediate family and all seven Swiss gymnastics fans in on earth? That seems like something for his MySpace page, at best. I actually can’t remember the last time I got excited about anything I saw on IG’s website. I usually already know whatever they publish, having read it somewhere else online and waiting months for the old news in the magazine is totally worthless too. I go there out of habit, more than anything else. Sad, actually, considering how I used to wait by my mailbox for each issue, back in the day.
IG still doesn’t work and they’ve been having trouble with their site for two months now, according to this post: http://www.vivvo.net/forums/showthread.php?p=18844. You know if they’re posting messages in a forum at 2 AM I’m sure they’ve got a crack team on getting this up and running. They did make it so they’ve got a new message on their home page, acknowledging it doesn’t work, if you want to call that an update. Can anyone think of any other legitimate business website that has been down for this long, for any professional company?
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