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Mmm. That better?

Can..you feel the speed tonight?

from WinCustomize Forums
How's the site feeling tonight? Faster?
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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sometimes fast sometimes slow here, but hard for me to tell as I was hit by virus, hijacker, and spyware. they say I can't download anymore as they say I have 50megs.
sorry but it's all air now and some the downloads were to replace what I lost several times all despite having all securities. Anyone know who to contact to get restarted
I'm relly buming here, help send replys to [email protected] THANKS FOR YOUR HELP JOHN
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can't download anymore as they say I have 50megs.

Your profile says you've downloaded 100MB...... time to subscibe. You don't get to "restart" simply because you didn't backup.

Is the site faster than, what? The "Invalid Host" pages were lightning fast. I'm still getting server too busy pages, those don't take long to load. But the first page of this thread took 1 minute 45 seconds. Second page wouldn't load after 7 minutes 30 seconds...... took several attempts to get here. I get logged out when I go to My Skins page....... .... I'm going to have to say no....

Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Congratulations Brad It is a great work
Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ahhh... I see..... Thanks JD.
Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top
YES! So glad to have you'all back and running like never before!
Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top
BTW, it was money from Galactic Civilizations II that paid for the new servers.
Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Site is definitely faster today, than it was last night.
Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Of course..... as soon as I say that, I get the "Server too busy" error....
Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well...so much for the speedy night...now its right back to a crawl again.
Reply #62 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well I guess the galCivII is still more important,,,I guess all you skinners should find a new home....Since After all the subscription drives go to pay for more servers to have em taken up by gamers...But hey..thats still the reason I didnot renew my subscription a few months ago when it ran out...Ill keep my Stardock account paid, but Wincustomize can take it somewhere else...If we have to put up with timeouts why donate..after all if you have made so much in sales from that game why bother with skinning anymore..It obviously pays to buy games and you cater to the gamers first....Oh well Guess Ill go for a hike in the real world up a real mountain and enjoy the sights from reality...
Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Well I guess the galCivII is still more important,,,I guess all you skinners should find a new home....Since After all the subscription drives go to pay for more servers to have em taken up by gamers...But hey..thats still the reason I didnot renew my subscription a few months ago when it ran out...Ill keep my Stardock account paid, but Wincustomize can take it somewhere else...If we have to put up with timeouts why donate..after all if you have made so much in sales from that game why bother with skinning anymore..It obviously pays to buy games and you cater to the gamers first....Oh well Guess Ill go for a hike in the real world up a real mountain and enjoy the sights from reality...

Reality check:

1) WC was down a total of 16 hours.

2) GalCiv II sales generate more revenue in a week than WC does in a year from subscriptions. It's GalCiv II revenue that will be supporting WC. 

3) You're not even a WC subscriber, Drop. So what do yo have to complain about?

4) If it weren't for the people who subscribed, we wouldn't have this site at all.

Reply #64 from WinCustomize Forums Top
16 hrs is a small amount of time to be without if it buys new servers. The only people complaining are the ones who don't subscribe/contribute - fascinating
Reply #65 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I mainly use Firefox, and the site is still very slow at times...I have the Fasterfox extension which tells me load times, and it took 38 seconds just for this thread to finally load.
Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Took me 4 seconds...
Reply #68 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Help me --- it is slipping from my hands ... !!!!
Reply #69 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's taken me 8 minutes to get to this post. Server busy errors and timeouts etc - just like old times. If the site was fast, guess I missed it
Reply #70 from WinCustomize Forums Top
LOL. As has been pointed out here clearly MANY times.....YOU GET WHAT U PAID FOR!! As a non subcriber to Wincustomise, waiting for 2 to 3 minutes for a page to load, only to get the 'server busy' message doesnt really worry me (there are other pages to browse in the meantime)...Ive come to naturally expect nothing less. Empty promises will probably only really piss the subscribers off, as they forked out the cash for getting the same experience as non-subcsribers.
Since whenever in history has artistic creativity never been forced to bow down to the dollars that fund it? Thats the reality! My advice...dont waste ur money and dont expect anything...that way u wont be dissapointed.
Reply #71 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My advice...dont waste ur money and dont expect anything...that way u wont be dissapointed.

/me wonders then who it was who paid for your 762meg of downloads.....

One way or another everyone pays.  Nothing is entirely 'free'.

Artistic creativity, as you put it is quite 'free'...as free as a bird...as free as you like.  It's the product advertising/distribution/publicity/access/or, in our Inet case...DOWNLOADING bandwidth, etc that costs.

Always has...always will.

The frustrating thing is that if everyone paid his way the world would be a better place, and that's everywhere, not 'just' here at Wincustomize.com....

Reply #72 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I too have let my subscription lapse. As soon as we get a house though escrow I will be able to use my credit cards again and will resub. Even if I had a complaint "which I dont" I wouldnt feel it was my right to.. since im currently not a direct supporter financially.

like I said in another thread.. No site will ever be "up" at all times. I have even seen msn's home pages go down on occasion. No site will guarantee to always be up, there will always be "unforseen circumstances,etc" it's a part of net life....so to sit here and gripe and complain is about the dumbest thing ive ever seen..

I will say that the bumps weve been experiencing have been for the better.. WC will benefit from the servers and resources GalCivII has added to SD.. since WC couldnt get enough "NEW" subscribers to help with the cost of new servers,etc. we should be happy were getting any extra stuff at all..

just my 2 cents ..
Reply #73 from WinCustomize Forums Top
waited till the weekend to see how that was going to go. WOW, it's like a compleatly new site! glad to see the change!

well done Brad and crew!
Reply #74 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I still get the "Server too busy"-Error regularly. Don't know why, even when its not the weekend.

The Discussion panel in SDC has stopped working for me altogether in the last day, I only ever get compilation-errors. See below;

Compiler Error Message: BC30455: Argument not specified for parameter 'AdZone' of 'Public Sub WriteAd(AdZone As String, [UserLevelAccess As SDNetLib.CustomerLevel = CustomerLevel.Subscriber], [AccessLevel As Integer = 6])'.

Source Error:
Line 16:

Line 17:

Source File: E:\www.wincustomize.com\browser\forums.aspx Line: 18
Reply #75 from WinCustomize Forums Top
For the last 3 days all I've been getting when I load up my WC Browser and try to view a thread is this:

Server Error in '/' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Compilation Error
Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.

Compiler Error Message: BC30455: Argument not specified for parameter 'AdZone' of 'Public Sub WriteAd(AdZone As String, [UserLevelAccess As SDNetLib.CustomerLevel = CustomerLevel.Subscriber], [AccessLevel As Integer = 6])'.

Source Error:



Line 16:

Line 17: asp:Placeholder enableviewstate=false id=_ShowWC_Tray runat=server visible=false>
Line 18: % WriteAd() %>
Line 19: br class=tiny-7>
Line 20: /asp:Placeholder>


Source File: E:\www.wincustomize.com\browser\forums.aspx Line: 18

DD