Are the WOTC forums borked?

[pogminky]

Still not working properly.

 

[smootrk]

It is a nice site. Takes me back to gaming in the 80's - sigh

Aye, me too. I have been in a backwards looking mood for the last couple of years now. The other endeavor that I admire greatly is the Basic Fantasy RPG rules. It is another good effort to bring back what is really good about rpgs.

 

[pogminky]

Down again.

 

[proto128]

I was getting nothing but Database Errors when trying to go to the WotC forums. After I cleared my cache I was able to get the forum list but I can't view threads or posts. Weird.

 

[Troy70]

Still down.

 

[Henry]

Still down.

Nope, I just pulled the main forum page up myself at the minute you were posting that. Could be localized outages here and there right now.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

sometimes, if I close my browser, restart it, THEN the WOTC forums work, which suggests ot me it's not just a simple server fault, but something they've done that's interacting with your browser...if see what I mean?
cookies screwed up, tracking, I dunno.
helll building a website is as much voodoo as I know!

 

[JVisgaitis]

They should do a better job scheduling that.

LOL. Your kidding I trust...?

 

[Tao]

As a WizO over there I can say that it isn't something we're enjoying either. I believe that it has to do with changing some things in preparation for D&D Insider, but even we haven't gotten an official answer. We're just supposed to report bugs as we find them.



Sorry I can't give you a clearer idea, everyone!

 

[Entropi]

That's okay, it's not your fault.

However, as others have said, it certainly doesn't inspire confidence.

Neither does the fact that they have not redesigned their site for ages, even though the current one is really bad.

I was expecting a nice site redesign with the online mags. Instead, they are simply linked in tiny text links in those tiny scrolling content boxes they use. Ugh. Horrible design.

If they are trying to be a leader in an online initiative, they are failing. They give the appearance of constantly playing catch-up, and I find it hard to believe they will ever be ahead of the game.