Stumble no more? |

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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