Triond Crashes

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Posted on July 25th, 2009 in Online Writing by Guy Hogan

What a bad scare the Triond writing community got for a few hours on July 24, 2009.

So, it’s late morning and I’m surfing the Writinghood and Webupon of the Triond community and clicking on articles of interest to read and leave a comment. I read several articles and leave comments and decide to logout to check on my personal blog to see how many views were sent to my Triond content.

I check the data on my personal blog. I see during the night 10 visitors clicked on the hyperlinks to my Triond content. I post a short piece on my personal blog and log out.

I go back to Triond and try to log into my account. The form comes up saying my login is invalid, to try again. I do try again. I try several times. I make sure that my cap key on my keyboard is not on. Nothing. I notice there are no article headlines, pitures of writers or the websites of the Triond community on Triond’s front page.

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I can’t even send a message to the Help Center. As the day goes on and I become more frustrated I keep checking the “problems” page and lo and behold other bloggers are having the same problem. The system tells them the same thing that it told me. Their password doesn’t work and their email is invalid. The system says, there is no record of such an account.

Now I’m really worried. What if Triond can’t get back up? What if all accounts are lost? What if Triond just dissappears?

There would be no way for me to re-write everything. Triond is the only content site I work with. Finally, after four months of writing and making a little money I would be left with nothing. What a waste. I felt depressed.

I decided to do what I always do when I have some money and suffer an emotional set back. Go out and get a six pack of beer. I was in a daze. Was this the end of my online writing career?

I slowly put my keys and wallet in my pocket. I changed my short sleeve jersey to a long sleeve jersey. I sat down and put on my boots and slowly tied the laces. I just sat and stared at the computer screen. I could not believe it. Surely, it was a problem the people at Triond could fix. Surely, all the info wasn’t lost.

Hope would not die. I changed the page and typed in Triond’s URL. Then I noticed something. The pictures, the headlines and the associated websites where back on Triond’s front page. My username and my email worked. I was back in.

Now I could get that six pack of beer and enjoy it and get back to work submitting articles and flash fiction short stories to Triond. Welcome back everyone.

www.writinghood.com/online-writing/money-and-the-writing-of-sexy-short-stories-on-triond/ is one of my popular articles on Triond.

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22 Responses to “Triond Crashes”

Uma Shankari
July 25th, 2009 at 8:46 am

It had me real frustrated too. Guy, by the way, why are there so many (uncharacteristically so) mistakes in spelling? A deliberate expression of frustration?
Guy Hogan
July 25th, 2009 at 9:04 am

Uma:

I just read the article. Yes there are spelling mistakes all over the place and I go from present tense to past tense. What a mess.

Once Triond came up two things happened. I wanted to be the first one to post about the crash and the spell checker would not work. To make a long story short, I was in a panic to get it posted.

I guess I’ll send in a fix now; but I’ve noticed that if you ask for too many corrections nothing happens.

http://www.authspot.com/Short-Stories/Flash-Fiction-Lesbian-Lust.840407
Jenny Heart
July 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am

I was worried too. I went to facebook asking a triond friend for help. He told me it may be a system problem and it was. Thank God we can all breath again. Like it.
Guy Hogan
July 25th, 2009 at 11:32 am

Hi, Mrs. Heart:

I thought Triond had decided to get rid of me because I had posted one too many sexy short stories.

http://www.authospot.com/Short-Stories/Orgasm.869803
Ben Pearce
July 25th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

I couldn’t believe it, i thought someone had changed the keys on the keyboard at work but when i got home it wouldn’t work either. Thank god they sorted out the problem.
Guy Hogan
July 25th, 2009 at 3:43 pm

Hi, Ben:

My biggest fear was the accounts had been deleted and everything was lost. Or, Triond was simply no more.

Sex Videos http://www.authsport.com/Short-Stories/Sex-Videos.739687
Mrs Sue Ginger Howard
July 25th, 2009 at 10:11 pm

When this happened I started praying.
All my hard work that I had put my heart and soul into.
I was in a frenzie. That is when I started praying.
All those poems, jokes, one-liners that i had put into this site .
That I have started writing since I was 7 years of age.
Good thing my mom was smart enough when I was a little girl to get copyright dates on all the works that I wrote. She taught me to always get copyrights before publishing my work.
She and my brother has always encouraged me to write, write, and write.
I now have 35,000 different types of things that I have written.
My mother, brother, and husband had counted everyone of them and it totaled up to 35,000.
bestmommy
July 25th, 2009 at 10:18 pm

I’m glad I came across this article because yesterday the same thing happened to me and I thought I was losing my mind. I joined triond awhile back and never submitted anything. Yesterday I felt inspired so I logged on and started to type. I got a few paragraphs on the screen and saved my draft. I came back a short time later to finish and couldn’t log in. I knew I had the correct login info, although I did go back to my original “Welcome” email from Triond just to be sure, ’cause I thought I may have been having a brain fart. It’s ironic that the day I pick to start my Triond experience is the day the site crashes. Should I take that as a sign?
Guy Hogan
July 26th, 2009 at 8:32 am

lynda howard:

That was good advice your mom gave you about copyrights for your work. If my account with Triond would have been deleted I would have lost everything.

http://www.writinghood.com/online-writing/how-to-come-up-with-more-great-writing-ideas/
Guy Hogan
July 26th, 2009 at 8:38 am

bestmommy:

Well, welcome back to Triond. It’s really a good publishing site. I’ve been a member since March of 2009 and nothing like the crash had ever happened before. No, I certainly hope it wasn’t a sign for you or me.

http://www.writinghood.com/online-writing/money-and-the-writing-of-sexy-short-stories-on-trion/
Guy Hogan
July 27th, 2009 at 9:42 am

The article, Triond Crashes! is finally fixed. It was a mess. Now it is better. Not perfect but better. I must have been in a real panic when I wrote it.

Guy
BeatsMe
July 27th, 2009 at 11:01 am

Got me worried there, too. Thought I got banned or something. Really enjoyed reading this. Cheers.
Tony Dan
July 29th, 2009 at 6:16 am

had me worried for a minute also. but I knew all would be well.
Guy Hogan
July 29th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

BeastsMe:

I thought my days of publishing sexy flash fiction on Triond were over.
Guy Hogan
July 29th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

Tony:

You should have read this article on the 26th. It was full of mistakes. For a moment I was going to delete it. I sent in a fix instead. That turned out to be the right decision. http://www.writinghood.com/online-writing/my-personal-blog-sent-hundreds-of-hits-to-my-triond-content-in-june/
R J Evans
July 29th, 2009 at 6:22 pm

So many people thought that they had been banned! I would hope that Triond would email us if we were to be so treated….

One thing I would always advise, however. Triond is a website and many do not last forever. I hope, though, that this scare has prompted more people to make a backup of their work in a word processor – and not to commit everything to the online editor. For all that hard work to be lost would be tragic.

If Triond ever did go off line, the last thing they would do would be to send us all copies of everything we have written!
deklin42
July 29th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

Great article. Lets me know that I wasn’t the only one. On that day I was very bored too. I couldn’t view any articles.
Fornis
July 30th, 2009 at 9:40 am

I was away on that day and didn’t login. I am spared of this panic .
Guy Hogan
July 30th, 2009 at 12:13 pm

R J Evan:

I guess I’m a person who always expects the worse. I thought that maybe Triond had deleted my account; but your advice about making a back up of everything is sound advice. http://www.writinghood.com/online-writing/how-to-come-up-with-more-great-writing-ideas/
Guy Hogan
July 30th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

deklin42:

I have about 120 pieces on Triond and no back up for any of them. I wrote this article as fast as I could. I knew it was a good story. It made me feel like a newspaper reporter. http://www.writinghood.com/style/how-to/write-better-short-stories-immediately/
Guy Hogan
July 30th, 2009 at 12:55 pm

fornls:

You should have read the Triond Problem Page on that day. There must have been thirty messages trying to find out what was going on. It made me realize that the problem wasn’t just about my account but was about the entire system. It was quite an experience. http://www.authspot.com/Short-Stories/Nude-Conversation.860627
Athlyn Green
August 16th, 2009 at 11:17 pm

Everyone would do well to back up their articles–always a good practice at any juncture.