What did you do during the great Meh outage of 2024?
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- Something Productive
- Aimlessly scroll another shopping site
- Aimlessly scroll another mostly anonymous forum
- Obsess about your Meh face streak
- Too busy worrying about something else you’ll mention in the comments
P.S don’t let the intern throw the switch on the mehrathon
I obsess about my Meh face streak because I have no life. I also kept refreshing the page on my Android phone, desktop computer and iPad. Yep, no life here.
@heartny That’s the very definition of a life!
I posted gifs in the forum out of boredom.
@RogerWilco I couldn’t even get into the forum!
@Kyeh @RogerWilco yeah. When the main site was down, I tried the forum
I didn’t think that it was the website, kept saying no internet connection on my iPhone. Assumed that I wasn’t getting connected due to having a big hail storm a few hours ago
/showme a Meh Mehrathon
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
Yes it did, @mediocrebot… yes it did.
/showme something went terribly wrong
Cried like a baby Irk.
Considered the high likelihood that they are still using crappy microsoft shitty azure given the stellar service it provides.
Watch a yootoob vid from a channel I haven’t seen in a while.
Read a kindle book on my iPad while obsessively reloading the site on my phone.
I tried refreshing more times than I should have before leaving to do something else. I’m back now, though. Wish those wine spritzers from a couple weeks ago would arrive. Should be here by Friday.
Replied “LIES!!” to the Meh-rathon email
(then went and bought pool supplies)
@ladyhawke001 Hmm, I didn’t get a Meh-rathon email
@heartny no worries, you can have mine
@ladyhawke001 Thanks, much appreciated
Didn’t even know there was an outage. I give zero mehs about my click-streak because I have too much other stress in my life.
@die13lda Are you going to post your ink though?
@Kyeh It’s on my to-do list
@die13lda You have 4 hours … ! 🕰
Edit: oh, never mind - you did!
the what now?
Went on with montezumas revenge and busied myself on Woot. But kept trying between cramps. Knew it was a server issue and after midnight went to bed.
Slept through it.
@Kidsandliz me too my friend, me too
@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz I literally slept through it. I think. I don’t actually know when it was or how long it lasted. But I slept an exceptionally long time last night. The claimed Meh outage was not the only thing I missed.
@Cerridwyn @xobzoo
I am reasonably sure what you missed was that the world ended and we are all now living in an alternative universe. I slept through that change too but based on the shit I have had to “fix” (or am still working on trying to fix) that has gotten screwed since the mehrathon started this isn’t the MD Anderson Cancer Center that I am used to going to. This has got to be a fucked up alternative universe.
Did I miss something?
@PooltoyWolf Same!
/showme the saddest event in human history
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
@mediocrebot indeed.
/showme the saddest event in human history
@mediocrebot You’re a ghoul mediocrebot.
The what?
/showme a woman peacefully sleeping on a cloud with a dog
Actually, not bad
@tinamarie1974 And yet, still kinda creepy.
It’s not like we missed anything good…
/showme an american woman peacefully sleeping on a cloud with a bearded border collie wearing a cone
@well, the dog is better…yeah
@tinamarie1974 Would not have expected “woman” to be the challenging bit here.
/showme a bearded lady sleeping on a cloud wearing a cone, with a border Collie that is freshly shaved
@OnionSoup Yuck!
/showme an american woman peacefully sleeping on a cloud with a bearded border collie wearing a cone
This is more difficult than anticipated. However there are days he makes me feel like I’m in there with him
@mediocrebot that’s a classic
/showme an American woman sleeping with a bearded border Collie on a cloud wearing a cone
It could have taken some turns there… But actually weeded through there and found the safe path to the reasonable result… How was the cloud gonna wear a cone anyway?
@djslack That one’s good, although I think it ages @tinamarie1974 a couple of decades.
Did it really give you a cloud wearing a cone?!
@Kyeh, no, but that’s what I asked it for so I thought I might get it.
I tried to make the worst prompt possible for that image and it said no problem.
@djslack @Kyeh I like that one, but yeah it aged me just a tad.
@djslack @tinamarie1974 huh, I tried to get it to show me a cloud wearing a cone, but it didn’t react at all.
)
(BTW, just to be picky - those Asian-looking women could be Americans too …
@djslack @Kyeh absolutely can and I was wondering if I would take slack for that one. No fisrespect intended. I just thought it was was easier than Western Europeane WASP or Sicilian, German, French, Irish looking.
@djslack @Kyeh
/showme a cloud wearing a dunce cap
@djslack @Kyeh
/showme a cloud wearing an elizabethian dog collar
@mediocrebot
/showme a cloud wearing an e collar
@djslack @tinamarie1974
Cute clouds!
I know you didn’t mean it as a slight. I would say Caucasian if I wanted to narrow it down. But I was really just teasing you a bit.
You’d be surprised though, my mother’s heard some dumb stuff from people who should know better. She worked at a university library, and she was reading a book in the break room one day. This woman who worked in the dean’s office said “Oh, you can read English?”
Yeah, duh - how else could l she do her job?
@djslack @Kyeh now CAUCASIAN would have been great, didnt cross my mind this morning
And people can be extremely dense and downright rude. I shake my head when people talk louder than usual to ESL folks. Like screaming is not going to make it easier to understand.
@djslack @tinamarie1974 Yeah - people can be pretty obtuse!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Went to sleep after it was clear the outage was not me and likely to be (already was) of some length. How long did it last?
I’ve been having weird internet issues, so I spent a good 30 minutes troubleshooting my adblocker and DNS servers before checking downdetector…
@dkaine I’m still having weird DNS issues, but at least it wasn’t those keeping me from meh!
Thought to myself, the supply of crappy stuff finally dried up and Meh has gone out of business. Hey, I can dream!
@hchavers If that happened, what would you do with your mediocre time?
/showme a website that is dead and buried in Ben and Jerrys graveyard
@mediocrebot At least it knows who Ben and Jerry are.
@Cerridwyn Ooo, that’s a classic duo …
I could check the traffic in the channel for the exact timestamp, but after verifying that it wasn’t a problem in just my path to the server, I filed an ohshit report. It wasn’t needed. Apparently the mehgods had already noticed and were pouring caffeine into the dev team before I filed it. OTOH, if it hadn’t already been flagged, that would have provided the kick to get the anthill awake. Things were back to normal well before the cats finally decided that I could go to sleep.
As usual, I slept through the whole thing.
I stayed up all night refreshing the page to hear the “Something went horribly wrong” song
I got my meh face click, posted the ink for irk thread, and spent about 10 minutes trying to reload meh between facebook scrolling before figuring it was a meh thing (because sidedeal wasn’t loading either) and went to bed thinking that it was probably best to just get sleep rather than shop.
@mbersiam
/giphy ditto
My guess was the same thing that caused a vegetable washing machine to post at 11am was responsible for spinning up the extra web servers to support a mehrathon, and we would see performance restored in 12 hours’ time. But thankfully it happened much quicker than that.
I don’t allow any of my appliances to have online accounts.
@rockblossom and this modern AI era, how would you know?
Alarm set for 4:50 am. Woke up at 12:15 am with a developing charley horse in my lower left leg. Checked meh while walking off the cramp. Climbed back into bed 10 minutes later with no progress from meh. Went back to sleep. Still haven’t bought anything.
@cinoclav But did you resolve the leg cramp issue?
@heartny I did, hence going back to bed.
The sad thing is. I had insomnia last night. Have an ear infection and haven’t slept properly in three days. (When laying down my ear fills up with fluid and I can hear my own heartbeat so loud, I can’t sleep)
I would have actually welcomed the distraction… I was there at midnight and tried for a while before giving up.
I didn’t know it happened. Had a migraine for the past 3 days.
@Star2236 oh no. Hope you are feeling better
I refreshed a lot, and then removed a splinter from my finger through the miracle of Prid Drawing Salve.
Google search had an outage yesterday.
Microsoft downloads has an outage today.
Wonder if there’s another massive security breach again.
@pakopako Maybe it’s sun flares.
Blinked slowly
/giphy “slow blink”
@f00l
@f00l @Kyeh I’m not sure what this means in Cat, but our cats get confused when I do this back to them.
@f00l @Kyeh @macromeh According to people who claim to know, a cat slow-blinking is indicating that it does not see a threat. That may be true; I have used it as part of my approach to a scared cat more than a few times, and it seems to help. Confusion when you do it might be “WTF? When did this human learn to speak Cat? What else have they figured out?”
@f00l @macromeh @werehatrack When I first met my cat at the Humane Society, he was so shy that he wouldn’t come down from his perch on the highest shelf on the wall. He just stared at me with big eyes. I sat in the little room and talked and slow-blinked at him for about an hour! Finally one of the HS volunteers came in and stood on a chair and scritched his cheeks, and he ventured down and ate some food. He let me pat him a bit. Then he retreated back up; I stayed a while longer blinking and talking and finally thought, well, I’ll think about it overnight. But when I left the room he came down and gave me such a LOOK and I decided I had to take him. He spent the first few days here hiding a lot but I kept doing the blink and it really worked!
First night, hiding under the sink.