oh, should be fixed now.

// The Puppeteers submitted mp3s to NZmusic.com three times,
// none of these requests resulted in them appearing on the page.

we're getting out of the mp3 game for the time-being. People who have emailed admin or via the info email address have generally been pointed in the right direction with alternate solutions. Other people have more resources to throw at that sort of thing, such as...

// Myspace had them up there in two minutes.

// Go figure

Well, on the one hand, you've got MySpace, with millions of dollars of investor backing and hundreds of employees, and on the other you've got nzmusic.com, run on a shoestring budget by fewer people than you'd find in your average band.

well. that was interesting.

Hey all,

it's not just you, the site is indeed running slow again. We've got a recurring and difficult to pinpoint problem that's causing us no end of grief. Should be back to normal soon.

// Fighting the Shakes seem to be denied an Artists page on this site

can't actually find your registration request in the queue.

feel free to register again, and I'll make sure it gets processed.

the main issue behind slow registration process times at the moment is that we're rebuilding most of the site, and the current system will eventually be made redundant, so we're not spending a lot of time on processing the current queue, as it's essentially work that slows us down from implementing the new system. Feel free to rark us up if you are desperate for an artist page, though, and, as this thread illustrates, there's nothing stopping you from advertising upcoming events via the forum.

and what venues have you been adding listings for groggy?

we were likewise bemused about the amount of compression put on the images of the girls.

at least you didn't have to put up with the 'audio' version of the 24 ad they sent us to start with.

beep beep beep. beep beep beep. beep beep beep. etc.

nightmare.

just a little medicinal brandy to see it through this cold welly afternoon.

// Any of the mods aware of these issues?

All too horribly aware, I'm afraid.

The hope was that the shift to the new server would alleviate the problems the site was experiencing, and, for a short time it did, but it's now becoming more and more apparent that the site has outgrown the code it was built on, and a lot of the pages on the site are overburdening the server (the full 'today was a day where...' page, for example, is now 1MB+ per page load), resulting in an across-the-board slow-down.

Rather than spend time trying to re-code the existing forums, we're going flat-out to implement a new forum, which should be a *lot* faster than the current system. Give it a week, or so, touch wood.

(Oh, and the date issue is to do with the new home of the nzm server, which is in some other timezone - so there was a bit of fiddling with date/time stamps when we shifted, resulting in some weird behaviour. Again, hopefully, this will be resolved when the new forums go live).

It would appear that one of the odd side effects of the recent server switch is that logging in from nzmusic.com (as opposed to www.nzmusic.com) doesn't log you in correctly.

We're just looking into how to fix this so it doesn't matter which path you take, but, in the meantime, it would seem the best way to log in and stay logged in is to enter via the www version...

[ http://www.nzmusic.com ]

apparently not, although it did work okay in the forum listings, just not on the actual forum itself.. special character seemed to work okay though. it is that accent thing over the 'o', isn't it?

fixed. oddly enough, it would have affected the old server the same way - an error with how the code handled the displaying of a band bio that didn't contain a full stop in it somewhere.

I agree.