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What’s Down at Technorati?
It seems like for at least a week now, blog search Technorati has been experiencing some major issues. First I noticed that the blog pages weren’t updating in any sort of timely fashion. Then the search stopped working. For about 36 hours, the “blog pages” are also blank.
There are some notes on the Technorati blog about a server move and yesterday’s post seems to indicate the issues are nearly resolved. Yet 24 hours later the site is still in the same “down” state. If you click on any blog, here’s what you are presented with:
And here’s what you are presented with if you run a search (this one is for the iphone):
Quantcast shows Technorati with 7.2 million unique users worldwide. Perhaps they would have been better off taking the entire site offline during the move rather than leave a completely broken site live. Funny enough, the ads on the pages have loaded fine all along. I hope they are able to get the system back to normal soon as it seemed like they were getting some positive press as of late.
[...] in May it looked like Technorati stopped indexing blogs and links correctly. We were told that the issue was a result of the Technorati team moving their [...]
I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one, though Technorati seem to keep fiddling with their site to make it more difficult to navigate.
But it’s been four days since you posted this and it’s still down.
@Sean T., @Eric Tsai, @Eh, thanks for your support. Just posted an update on the Technorati Blog and my blog.
I’m with you Eric but most people have no idea about how difficult a move like what they’re doing is. I don’t actually know anyone at Technorati but I had to move a large database a while back and we couldn’t keep our small site up during that time ourselves so I’m sure Technorati engineers are simply not sleeping.
What really makes me laugh is how many people simply say “dude, the site’s down WTF” and don’t seem to see the large black status bar on the top of every page that says what they’re doing. Then again, being spiteful and complaining is much easier than thinking critically about what you’re seeing.
Hey guys lets give Technorati a break, I know bunch of guys that work in that tech and with big moves like that it’s very difficult to control what will and won’t happen. Remember, you won’t know until you actually do it, so just give it another week or two.
I am sure they’ll get things fix soon, I am having issues too but we aren’t paying them to keep it up so be patient and enjoy one less task for now.
@Dorion: Maybe update your blog. :)
@Dorion: Thank you for an honest update on what you guys are up to. Most people don’t understand what a pain it is to migrate data and I’m sure you guys have a lot. With so much anger towards Technorati, it’s nice see you post here and be open about the happenings.
The site itself is now completely down!
Technorati has actually been down longer, more like since Tuesday afternoon your time so a good 48 hours now, heading to 72.
Technorati is over 1/2 way done moving over 600 servers. Believe me, if we could have just shut down for a day and moved everything at once, we would have. However, there is too much to move and we need to free up equipment from the old colo in order to rack and wire equipment at the new colo. We are a small team performing a pretty huge task. We know downtime is bad and hate to impact the people who use our services. A few steps of the move have not gone as planned which forced us to change plans; risky, but necessary.
We appreciate everyone’s patience. We will get Technorati fully back online and indexing blogs. It is our top priority.
I’m done caring about whether or not Technorati ever works again. Even before their recent server move they weren’t updating correctly or timely. I publish 5-6 posts a day yet even with repeated pings Technorati would show that my most recent update was 15 days ago. No one at Technorati seemed interested in replying to emails either.
What’s NOT down at technorati? just about everything I’ve tried to do there for the last 2 weeks has been broken. I have let many Technorati monsters loose. They’re probably hungry too.
Perhaps something to do with all the layoffs not long ago?