GUD Magazine - alive?

Dgullen · Aug 3, 2011

Does anyone have any info on the status of GUD Magazine? The web site's been down for weeks and there's little info on their FB or Twitter accounts that I can see.

Hoping all is ultimately expected to be well!

Dave

Mr Flibble · Aug 3, 2011

I hope so, they gave me a nice review

Anyway, they're still tweeting (@gudmagazine, last retweet on sunday, though they don't appear super active. I also recognise a user name they tweeted to

) so maybe fire off a tweet and find out?

Buffysquirrel · Aug 3, 2011

GUD's server experienced a massive failure while Kaolin (the ed-in-chief and webguru) was out of the country on holiday. Data were lost. Kaolin's in the process of restoring the server, which hosts around 40 websites. He wants to retrieve as much data as he possibly can before doing the restoration of GUD's site--which, as you can imagine, has tons of data, not least the copyedits for forthcoming Issue #7. It would be much harder for him to integrate recovered data once the site is back up than it is to get as much as possible back before restoration.

In short: not dead yet.

Dgullen · Aug 3, 2011

Buffysquirrel said:
In short: not dead yet.

That's a relief. Thanks for the update.

skaempfer · Aug 3, 2011

Might want to drop duotrope a line; they are threatening to declare you dead.
Good luck with the re-building.

Buffysquirrel · Aug 3, 2011

Thanks, skaempfer. I've given Kaolin a heads-up.

Okasha Skat'si · Aug 5, 2011

This is very good news; I was beginning to think it was time to send flowers. Please let kaolin and/or Julia know that I'll be happy to resend my story with the edits Julia and I agreed on if I just have an address to send it to.

Buffysquirrel · Aug 6, 2011

Sure will

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Okasha Skat'si · Aug 6, 2011

Much appreciated. Thanks.

I'm sure other contributors would be happy to do likewise.

Buffysquirrel · Aug 6, 2011

We appreciate all the concern and the good wishes for the magazine

. I'm sure Kaolin will have the site back up soon as he's sure he can't retrieve any more data.

zanzjan · Aug 6, 2011

They should strongly consider at least putting up a placeholder page letting people know what's happening. The current state of things, absent the information here, is woefully unflattering.

-Suzanne

Buffysquirrel · Aug 7, 2011

My understanding is that Kaolin doesn't want to do anything that might compromise his ability to retrieve data.

Magdalen · Aug 9, 2011

Buffysquirrel said:
In short: not dead yet.

Gud to know!

Dgullen · Aug 10, 2011

Hurrah! The GUD web site is now back (mostly).

Buffysquirrel · Aug 10, 2011

ah, cool. i did hear last night that it was close to recovery!

GUD Magazine - alive?

Dgullen

Ustom Ser Itle

Mr Flibble

They've been very bad, Mr Flibble

Buffysquirrel

Dgullen

Ustom Ser Itle

skaempfer

Buffysquirrel

Okasha Skat'si

Buffysquirrel

Okasha Skat'si

Buffysquirrel

zanzjan

killin' all teh werds

Buffysquirrel

Magdalen

Petulantly Penitent

Dgullen

Ustom Ser Itle

Buffysquirrel