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Beta Site Will Be Read-Only For Some Hours Tomorrow Morning
written by recurving on April 20th, 2009 , 28 comments (3 votes)

As we are doing some nerdish stuff with our database tomorrow morning (starting at nine Central European Time) the whole Beta website will be read only for some hours. So you can still read all our articles, browse through our photos and all other people’s homes, but won’t be able to leave comments, submit stuff or enter competitions.

The view from my desk, our programmers are sitting right behind the screen…

Right after that we will take the site offline for about fifteen minutes and launch with a new (and final) version of the beta site. Yes, we are in the final phase of our relaunch – the last weeks we’ve been going through the whole code again, added some features, tweaked the performance (yeah, we know, the site’s been a bit slow from time to time), worked in your feedback and polished everything. And we drank way too much coffee. At least me for sure. So the big day when Beta becomes Alpha – meaning beta.lomography.com replacing www.lomography.com – is coming real soon.

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28 comments

  • icuresick
    by icuresick
    7 months ago

    Exciting! :D

  • callumbum
    by callumbum
    7 months ago

    i can;t wait :D

  • jaminsemirang
    by jaminsemirang
    7 months ago

    hahaah, many thanks any, do not drink too much coffe, okay, the caffein could make you probably sick. We (in Indonesia) will wait calmly. hahaha

  • stouf
    by stouf
    7 months ago

    Haaaaa ....

  • paper_doll
    by paper_doll
    7 months ago

    i'm kinda nervous!

  • monoflow
    by monoflow
    7 months ago

    Can't wait to see it!!

  • lomomonnom
    by lomomonnom
    7 months ago

    I can't take it anymore,...the excitement is killing me. :)

  • cinzinc
    by cinzinc
    7 months ago

    countdown anyone?hahaha

  • coca
    by coca
    7 months ago

    finally!!! can't wait!

  • dogma
    by dogma
    7 months ago

    Yuuupppyyyy cant wait, i'm counting seconds :):) wow you guys have a huge programmers team :) can i join you? :D

  • dogma
    by dogma
    7 months ago

    Yuuupppyyyy cant wait, i'm counting seconds :):) wow you guys have a huge programmers team :) can i join you? :D

  • recurving
    by recurving
    7 months ago

    well, actually you can see the graphic team on this shot. and relax, the whole read only time is still about 12 hours ahead... :) but i am excited, too...

  • graefin
    by graefin
    7 months ago

    exciting!!! I'm so curious how everything will look when beta is finally "taking over" our old homes.

  • lomosexual_manboy
    by lomosexual_manboy
    7 months ago

    Fingers crossed everything goes smoothly. Exciting times.

  • larslau
    by larslau
    7 months ago

    Great, I'm looking forward to the change..! And btw. I don't think it is "when beta becomes alpha" as bear1973 wrote in the news - it is when beta becomes the final version (http://en.wikipedia.(…)_life_cycle) (-;

  • milkie
    by milkie
    7 months ago

    exciting! But for me it means no more lomo at work because my computer is to old or bad to support the beta!

  • superlighter
    by superlighter
    7 months ago

    emotion and excitation!!!!!!!

  • spendospend
    by spendospend
    7 months ago

    bring it on!!

  • alexandrak
    by alexandrak
    7 months ago

    exciting! web team is great++

  • pila_
    by pila_
    7 months ago

    mama mia!

  • liquidpapercut
    by liquidpapercut
    7 months ago

    Can't wait!

  • kylewis
    by kylewis
    7 months ago

    Anticipation!!!!

  • janidays
    by janidays
    7 months ago

    yeahhh :D

  • oldskool_rider
    by oldskool_rider
    7 months ago

    woop woop woop woop!!!!
    this is nearly as exciting as the weekend!

  • deng
    by deng
    7 months ago

    ^___________+

  • edmund_li
    by edmund_li
    7 months ago

    YOSH!!! GAMBATEH!

  • mephisto19
    by mephisto19
    7 months ago

    it is nine

  • trash-gordon-from-outer-space
    by trash-gordon-from-outer-space
    7 months ago

    Do you really think that everything we want to do ist to share all the articles and photos in other social networks? Lomography IS a social network.
    I want to leave comments and to like photos. So please do me a favour and don't let the share tab stay on top all the time. Thats all from me. Besides that: good work!!! I love the beta site.

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