To my fellow players:
My apologies for timed out games. I'm hoping to have the games reinstated as soon as possible and with Fencer's help. My webtv sure wasn't very "user friendly" for many days.

I'll be here till the end. Hope thats not this comming week-end, LOL. Just kidding, I'm sure we can survive, It just gets on your nerves when you want to play your games and can't.

LOL.... Send them a donation :)~

I have a little bit of an "in" with WebTV.. (Not MUCH of one,lol, I'm not trying to brag) And I'm going to try and find out if something has changed with the proxy server in the last 2 weeks. It has to be something that has CHANGED, because WebTV users were always able to access Brainking at the same time as the computer users, every time brainking has come back up.
It seems as though both weekends, it has been somewhere between 24 and 48 hours later, before we could access the site.. Whatever I find out, I will of course pass on to Fencer..
Wish me luck! :-D

All you other webtv users out there, please don't abandon brainking because of this.. Fencer wants to solve this as much as we do, I'm sure!!!

I can't promise I'm going to find anything out, but I'm going to try..

They should improve that system.

The webtv system appears to correct itself within 3 days.

There must be something strange in WebTV proxy server system. Maybe they have different caching and accessing policies for European sites? Because all other mentioned sites [IYT, GT] are American ones.
Of course, we could create a fail-safe system which shows our site always up and running even if one or more of the machines are temporary turned off. However, such system costs money. Lots of money.

thank you Brian1971!! well said and well put! i just managed to get on here a little while ago, after being down since Friday evening and concur with what you have said, i play one ladder at IYT and that's it....this is the best site going and would hate not to be able to play cause of being on webtv....hope the bosses get everything ironed out soon!!

I am on webtv. I started having problems getting in here starting Friday evening and couldnt get in until tonight. Most of the webtv people here are probably IYT players who were looking for a better place to play. They found it here. I love this website. With the exception of a few bad apples most of the players I have met are great people and it is fun to come here when comical things are happening on the discussion boards and in the fellowships. I would hope Fencer and Liquid would take their paying webtv people seriously and with great consideration. I still play parttime at IYT with a tournament and a ladder. If webtv becomes unusable source to play from at this site, there are others that are webtv friendly. I would hate to see that happen as this is the best game site on the web. However I am confident that Fencer and Liquid will do everything to accomodate us webtv players.. IF 20 percent of their paid membership comes from us that is a huge portion to lose to the competition.

there are 388 paid members in total not counting owners . so that is near enuff to one in 6-7 are WebTv. I think a little bit more consideration should be given to them seeing this is the case :)

53 members in webtv fellowship. Most of them paying members of BK.

Probably quite a few. There are over 50 in the Web-tv fellowship, and there are probably a lot more that aren't there yet.

(Rod....how is that for a shameless plug?)

How may webtv users play on this site ?

I was having problems until about 30 min. ago. Now everything works fine ??? Earlier, I couldn't get on any discussion boards.

I just used webtv emulator, and only get a white screen for brainking, not even a login page

I only made it back on here this time after deleting the cookies, and then turning the power off and back on.

For those webtv-ers that don't know how to delete them, go to the "home page", click the "help" on the top right of the screen, then scroll down the left column to the "utilities tool". It explains all about it and how to do it there.

i hope you're going to keep the time suspended, it just took forever for me to submit a msg., and i don't even know if it went thru. i left it to see if i could get here, i hope this submits. i would really hate to lose all my games, that would be very discouraging. i'm going to try to play some games, i couldn't before.

Yes but I cannot be responsible for WebTV proxy server strange behaviour each time we switch down our servers.

So as of right now, are the WebTV people still having problems? I know they were yesterday (while the PC people was working).

If so Fencer, you may want to keep the time-out clock off for awhile longer.... to make sure they are all working again.

Nope, the problem was with the application itself. Server-side applications are very sensitive to the smallest changes. It's impossible to test all possible configurations without a big development team.

Thanks Fencer. Was some of the problem with 2.0, the number of players on site? I heard comments to that effect, but I did not know if that was true.

Eriisa: On Saturday, if everything will be prepared.

Fencer, I see the hardware replacement was done. When will you attempt again and installing 2.0? I just was wondering.

It should still be there, gooner! 'Server news', in a green box. If not, click on 'discussion boards' then 'server news' - that has all the old messages that appear on your main page :o)

I thought it was down yesterday morning.. then came back.. then went again early hours of this morning (UK time)

Must have missed that one Harley. Thanks. :o)

There was a note on your main page about it, gooner. It was supposed to be down for 2 hours, but I guess there were unexpected problems. At least we're back now :o)

Whats been happening on here. Tried to get on for hours. :o(

I'm on web-tv. I can access the first page of my games, but none of them will go through when I push the send button.

And for ImUpChucKing too...He can't access anything. Webtv user too.....

Yup, I just got an email from the webTV user I was helping earlier this week - BrainKing is messed up for her again also.

I have a PC and I'm having no problems but out of my 58 games I have going no people have been on for some time now to make any moves, about 2 hours

Is there something weird going on right now?
I can access everything, except the main page, and keep getting 'the site is too busy' or 'white pages'.... something to do with the work being done on the site?

UPDATE... Getting worse, now cannot make a move in my games, and could even post a new message here.

Whats next?

and sitting too ;/

Mrloupcity--i just checked, you arent on the list for the Sunshine Club, but i didnt remove you.. i dont think i can even if i wanted to.. can you go to the page and request again? i'll gladly reinstate you!!! i wonder why/how that happened? and if its happening to others as well?

AD is a walking problem. lol

I'nm m pt javomg aniy poroblems eiythier.

Looks like WebTV is having a better go at it than the computers today.... I'm not experiencing any problems today :)

ouch the SCSI board went down? (just assuming it's a SCSI RAID)

Backoff: I must change Controller of HDD, and one HDD.
We need new server.

Ok what did you break this time Fencer???? :)

I think that is y site is running slow in the states lol
:o{P

mrloupcity; you haven't been kicked out because you're still listed as a member at Chrissie's Clubhouse. I haven't checked the others.
Try going to the fellowship main page and then clicking the link to the discussion board.

mrloupcity, the best thing to do is send a private message to the big bosses of these fellowships and ask them if they removed you. That way you would know for sure.

Fencer could answer this I assume

thxs I just try my best is all but yes for some reason
MASTERMINDS GZ,
Ground Zero,
Stormy's Place,
Crissie's Clubhouse,
☼The Sunshine Club ☼
r the ones that seem to just go poof off my list. This is why I want asking if the Big Boss kicked me to the curb or if some1 found out my PW and removed me...

Duh! I forgot that!
I can't imagine anyone removing mrloup from their fellowships. He's a really nice, polite guy.

Even if he'd removed them from his list of favourite boards, they would still be listed in the fellowships in the list below.. those cannot be removed unless you have removed yourself, or been removed, from the fellowship itself.

Mrloup, according to your profile you're a member of
BIG BAD Battleboats
The Zoo
AMENITY
The Gammon Cube
A WHAM BAM
Debate Club

If there's anything missing from that list you'll have to ask the Big Boss of that fellowship personally.
You haven't removed any from your list of favourites by mistake have you?

know that for some reason 4 or 5 of my fellowship boards r gone from my list. I hope that some1 has not fond out my PW to get into my account but, if that is not it and I was remove for some reason then ok. I just wanted to know if that is the case and to try an find out why I was removed.
And to those of u that may be wanting to know about my illness. It's like O told some of u. Now I just feel like a YoYo. I have my good feeling days and then there r day I wish my wife(BOSS) could just put me out. And for those of u that wished a get well soon, TYVM for those...
:o{P