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Is intensedebate down?
We're getting "504 - Gateway time-out" when we try to go to the frontpage of intensedebate.com.
Nor are comments loading on our site: http://www.budstikka.no/sec_nyheter/a...
This is the worst possible time this could happen, we expected a lot of comments today :(
Nor are comments loading on our site: http://www.budstikka.no/sec_nyheter/a...
This is the worst possible time this could happen, we expected a lot of comments today :(
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Inappropriate?I see "502 Bad Gateway" errors messages all the time when browsing intensedebate.com. -
Inappropriate?Happening again now (2009-04-18 00:10 UTC).
www.intensedebate.com gives up loading after about 2 minutes with a 504 Gateway Time-out from the nginx reverse proxy.
A knock-on effect on sites using IntenseDebate for their comments, is that visitors' browsers (Firefox/IE8 at least) will hang on the < script> tags referring to external scripts hosted by IntenseDebate. That prevents the rest of the page (eg. sidebar/footer) from loading, and obviously the comments do not load either. On a busy site it could cause a build-up of traffic with lots of people refreshing pages, maybe enough to take a site down if you're on running on the edge of your available resources.
I’m indifferent
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Inappropriate?This problem is affecting 4 of our websites on a day we were expecting a good amount of traffic. Our podcast network has been crippled. This is ridiculous, and right on the heels of my praising the virtues of Intense Debate to thousands of people.
I’m losing money
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Inappropriate?why doesn't intensedebate just allow us to host all of this ourselves? that would make things a lot easier, quicker, and better overall for us to not have to rely on their site being up.2 Comments
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This solves the problem
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The million-dollar question. This has been my biggest reservation about IntenseDebate I first heard about it. I don't understand their business model, so I'm not sure if they want to use their comments platform to track activity of users across websites (which they maybe couldn't do if we hosted the comments ourselves). Perhaps not; maybe it was purely a design/technical decision for them to host the actual comments. Even if the availability issues are resolved, it's still a flawed approach. (Having people enter their IntenseDebate login credentials on third party sites? How long is that really going to seem at all secure?) -
Oh, and not to mention there might be a way to do it without requiring JavaScript.
