From the Soda Journal, written on 24 July 06 by ed.
Something serious has happened to the server running Sodaplay.com and Sodarace.net. Soda apologises to everyone looking to play today; we’re working hard to fix the problem as soon as possible.
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I don’t know where to put this, as the forums are down right now (got re-directed to here).
Just saying, I put on the NPOV tag on the Wikipedia entry. Some comments, like this one
This version of the program existed quietly on the soda website, as well as being hosted at another site. At this point, the applet was largely unknown, except to the lucky few who had discovered it already.
Some commments like the one above are highly inappropriate.
i want to join
This little creture looks like a drawing like seriously! And I want to join in too!
How could this happen?
What is wrong right now?
I hope the problem will get fixed as soon as possible.
get it back up quickly.
Just an update - the server that hosts sodaplay.com and sodarace.net had trouble with one of its disk partitions. We’ve solved the initial problem and are doing some final checks and backups that may take a few hours, but we will have it back online by the end of today.
To be honest, the server is a fairly antique beast (in internet years) and not in the best of configuration states, but it does run sodaplay and sodarace for us. As both of these projects are having new homes built for them now, and as we have no funder to pay for these sites, we haven’t made uptime and stability for the old server a priority - we just try to keep the old beast going with some TLC occasionally.
Sorry once again to deprive all sodaplay/race fans of their sites.
you could at least tweak it so this never heppens again
sorry for double comment but where can we find that model shown by the comment? please post it as a beta link
Please hurry up and fix it, you guys.
I have some great ideas. :)
and maybe we could rig up some group models
More problems I’m afraid. Just to let you know we’re still working on the site and will let you know once we know more. (ironically these latest problems may have been caused by us redirecting the site to this page as an interim measure...)
could you at least allow us to get to teh sodarace forums
go to the url to pass the time. you can play me
quiero aprender como se construlle una maquina
i would join!
phew, i thought you guys didnt like me and BANNED ME!! anyways, it good to know you didnt. ( i had 320+ posts!! lol) anyways i wasnt too worried cuz sodaplaydome was always beside me and most of our active “sodaplayer’s” all meet there and talk about this problem and knew it would be fixed sometime.
and yes ive been on sodaplay for over an year, i have quite a lot of experince w/ it and yeah, even though i only hang around the community disscusion forums, a lot of people still know me. ;)
so its good to know that sodaplay will be fixed, at that time, it was like my LIFE! like i stayed up the whole night untill 3:00 am just for more posts. ( gah! stupid time difference!( i live in China))
and sodaconstructor was always a good friend, it always stretches my imagination to the limit.
i hope sodaplay get fixed :)
CK
bah, came back from holiday, wanted to say hi to the sodaplay folkz, but…
at least I was able to use the local version of SodaConstructor for a while, but it doesn’t start anymore =(
Hope you guys fix it soon!
Okay - it’s fixed. As soon as your upstream DNS resolver updates its entry for sodaplay.com or sodarace.net (in anything from one hour to (worst case) two days - but most likely a few hours) you will see the correct (working) site rather than this one.
Once again, sorry for the outage - most of our resources are focused on sodaplay2, but we will try to prevent it happening again!
Yay, glad you guys got it back working again. I’m working on a site to replace sodaplaycentral and sodaplay being down was not helping matters at all! I’m glad that you all at soda care enough about us soda addicts to spend hours resolving a conflict with a program that is really not benefiting you that much at all.
I can’t get local to work. Ever. Because of this I was kinda worried that I might’ve lost all my work. Thanks for doing all you guys can to keep us from losing our models and such.
Can’t wait until 2.0 comes out, but a zoo update will do for now. *hint hint*
See you all around!
_glitch_
it’s still moving here! HELP!
To celebrate the gradual return of Sodaplay here is a link to the model by “oooo” pictured at the top of this journal entry: http://sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm?getmodel=display+heartache2
Uh, ed, I think that’s
http://sodaplay.com/constructor/player.htm?&getmodel=display+heartache2
LOL, you need to get back into the swing of things ed!
_glitch_
Sodaplay is whole again (thanks oooo!)
Wow props to “oooo” for that nicely made creation. Anyways I’m so glad sodaplay.com and sodarace.net are back up and running! =) What else can we expect, ed?
It still redirects me here. HELPPPPPPPPPPPP!
REPLY IMMEDIATELY. I NEED AN ANSWER AND HOW TO STOP GETTING IT REDIRECTING HERE.
god...will you shut-up please!!!and i have the same problem.
Haha...I think you need to put in http://www.sodaplay.com/index.html
...or something like that.
OKAY,if you really want the link to sodaplay,i can give you.
http://sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm?getmodel=display+heartache2
That’ll do.It’s an faulty model link,that’ll allways work.
Sorry to double comment…
You should get the model and the sodaplay index in one link.
If it doesnt work for you,check it yourself.
jedijedi, it’s still down for some. Please be patient.
_glitch_
why am i still being re-directed her aswell?!
What happened to the server?
ca mon dear god
how do you make them move?
Christopher - select one of the string-like things and move the corresponding bar on the left up to the place where the wave’s in action…
and everyone else is using the faulty model site, right? or did the server come back up and my comp is just PMSing?
EVERYTHING is fine,but soda just (this is what Í think) doesn’t have any time to make http://www.sodaplay.com don’t redirect to here.
And the “stringlike-thing” what you talk about,is a spring,and the moving spring is a muscle.There.
this looks cool
Sodaplay.com is up and running again - and though most users should be able to see sodaplay.com again some might still be redirected to this page. Please be patient, this will eventually work as your DNS providers update their records.
Just to clarify: “sodaplay.com” is working already (dns has had time to propagate and every DNS server SHOULD have updated) and the error with the address “www.sodaplay.com” has been fixed and it should be propaged soon (identical server / identical content behind both addresses though, so why not use sodaplay.com straight away...)