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Re: Nickb missing?

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Post by adrianwaj »

rcoder wrote: post #28
racerrick wrote: post #25

New Mogul is great. Hope this gets resolved. It's hosted at Godaddy. The domain is current. And it's not that he didn't pay a hosting bill - when that happens at Godaddy they make the site forward to a godaddy page. That means that someone manually took the site down.

> That means that someone manually took the site down. Since the News.YC code (which NewMogul also uses) runs in a single Scheme process, it could have shut down for any number of reasons: it might have crashed, failed to start after a server reboot, been killed by the OS or hosting provider due to a memory leak, etc. I don't know what kind of monitoring nickb might have set up, but if he's not responding to personal…

Something's happened to Nickb, but he'll bounce back eventually.

Re: Nickb missing?

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Post by adrianwaj »

ojbyrne wrote: post #29
adrianwaj wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you set a deadline on it though, say 5 months if nothing happens, more, or never?

I'll email him again, but I don't see much more than that being in any way appropriate. If I had been to his house, maybe, but I haven't.

I don't think it'd be rude to go knocking on his door (if you know it). It's just that it's a major anomaly to cease communications in such a way, isn't it?

NM and HN may be a low priority for him, and that's fair enough, and he can't be doing both forever, so you're not going to be saying "where have you been?" or "what's going on?" it's more like "is everything okay?"

A few people have been left high and dry, and if it wasn't for them, you'd probably back off completely.

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Post by prakash »

notaddicted wrote: post #11

I am really missing my NewMogul :S. If I were to guess he is probably just too busy to go through email, and doesn't know NewMogul is down. If anyone knows him personally please call him and let him know.

More than NM, we want to make sure if everything is ok with NickB.

Re: Nickb missing?

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Post by ojbyrne »

adrianwaj wrote: post #26
ojbyrne wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've met him (in Ottawa). He hasn't responded to emails since early July. That address is a multi-unit building. I don't see that it's really appropriate for me to go knock on his door though. There is a thing called privacy and he does have family.

Would you set a deadline on it though, say 5 months if nothing happens, more, or never?

I might have a phone number (have to check my emails). I would feel comfortable calling him.

Re: Nickb missing?

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Post by shard »

mcxx wrote: post #12

There has to be a great party somewhere. I guess nickb and _why are attending.

Those people party hard. Lance Davis was there and didn't want to leave either.
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