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March 9, 2005

Stumble no more?

add-ins and toolbars — by TDavid @ 10:10 am PST
New! F = please no more posts like thisD = not among your best stuffC = average postB = good post, I liked itA = great post, please create more like this (Hmm, no ratings yet)
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Over 41 million stumbles from netizens all over the world. StumbleUpon is one of my personal favorite toolbars (SU) — the only toolbar, in fact, that I’ve donated money to — and this morning I noticed the terrible black and white message pictured above coming from their server. All default bad server / DB messages are in black and white, it seems. Hope they get this sorted out and it’s only a momentary bump in the database road. SU really could use some sort of blog or news update to let their users know what’s going on. I looked around the SU website and didn’t see any mention of this database failure. Did I miss the note on the cork board?

Update: SU is back online.

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  2. […] To answer Chris’ question that he never really asked me (the dude’s like that): yes, I know some results are paid, targeted stumbles and I still donated to their cause quite awhile ago. I’m kind of surprised Chris didn’t realize this was happening (?) and not sure by his post if he dislikes this practice or not, or is simply questioning if this practice makes the service “real or fake.” […]

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