Friendster Service Update - Please read
Dear Friendster Community,
As you may have seen, Friendster.com has undergone maintenance at various times over the past few days. Friendster’s unscheduled downtime was due to a power outage at our outsourced data center in Santa Clara, California where Friendster’s servers are co-located along side approximately 50 other companies. As a result, Friendster, as well as a number of other online companies, experienced unscheduled and unavoidable downtime. At this time, Friendster is back online and our team is working quickly to restore everything back to normal.
Additionally, you may have experienced some inconsistencies with your friend count on Friendster. All of your friend connections and data stored on Friendster are in tact and will be corrected shortly. It’s simply taking some time for us to restore each user account as Friendster has over 85 million user accounts globally.
Lastly, if you’ve received any on site messages or SMS text alerts regarding our downtime or your friend count, please disregard them as they were initiated by members of our community and do not contain accurate information about what happened.
Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
-The Friendster Team
Some Frequently Asked Questions:
1) What happened to my friends?
Currently, the number of friends in the friends list is being displayed incorrectly.
2) Are my friends lost permanently?
No. The data for all friend connections is intact and is not lost.
3) When can this be fixed?
Friendster is currently working on this problem and we hope to have this fixed within 24 hours.
4) Can I still add friends while the problem has not yet been fixed?
Yes, users can still add new friends and use other features of the site.
For more help, please visit our Help Center.
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heiii
great job friendster!!
love you..
lol
Posted November 17, 2008, 4:57 amhhahaha
thanks guys!
Posted November 17, 2008, 5:51 amwe really missed friendster A LOT!!!
great job….
:))
You know what you should have posted that LONG before you under go the so called MAINTENANCE. Remember as an admin it’s your JOB to inform us. you’re TOO LATE the HERO, many of your members complain that’s why you post that announcement…..
Posted November 17, 2008, 6:17 amhmmm…^^ now i understand everything..thanks for the explanation…^^
Posted November 17, 2008, 6:39 ami have a response on my blog.
Posted November 17, 2008, 7:45 amhayz… it’s toO late beForE u Act..all people… was afraid… becoz..f.s is almost 1 week maintenance…
but it’s ok… the importants is back to normal…
thank you guy’s …
Posted November 17, 2008, 9:06 ami hope this is the 1st and last friendster shut down…
hmmm..
Posted November 17, 2008, 9:11 amnow i know what is the reason why our group is in disruption & i’m confident now that my friends aren’t misplaced anywhere! LOL ;p
i love you friendster!! 2 thumbs up for your good service!!
“))
Posted November 17, 2008, 11:46 amnot all the time is UPtime, am just too grateful you, friendster team, are my webhost.
Posted November 17, 2008, 4:02 pmgo, go, go, friendster!
Hell…
I Dont Know Why Spreading Text Messages Here in the Philippines that Friendster has a Virus.
Posted November 17, 2008, 7:48 pmhi!friendster team
Posted November 17, 2008, 7:57 pmI’ve read your message about my friends list are accurate. . .
but?
What would i do inorder to accurate my friends list?
I don’t know how to do that?
Hope you will mail me as soon as you’ve read my comment. . .
Thanks……
thank you Friendster Team. at least the friend count is starting to rise up now. don’t mind the whiners. haha. more power!
Posted November 17, 2008, 8:16 pmw0w!thnx 4 the explanati0n!!
Posted November 17, 2008, 8:29 pmthanks!! good work.. my page looks fine.. plz. inform us a day before the so called maintenance.. for us to be ready.. we love friendstr soo much.. we miss it.. hehehehe
Posted November 17, 2008, 9:48 pmpls.help meh 2 fix my fs
Posted November 17, 2008, 9:59 pmYAY!! FRIENDSTER IS FIXED O’READY!! M.C. DUANE of http://www.friendster.com/duane IS SOOOO HIZAPPY!!! y’knowhat?? HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES, FRIENDTIZZLE IS THE BEST UP IN DIZ MUTHA…… FOREAL!!!! SO IM TELLIN YOU GUYS…. GREAT JOB!!! BIG-UPS TO ALL THE FRIENDSTER STAFF!!! IM SOOO HAPPY NOW PEEPS!! SO TO ALL MY FELLOW FILIPINOS UP IN DIZ JOINT… IF YOU AIN’T GOT NUTHIN TO DO… YOU CAN READ MY BLOG…. http://apokalipsis.blog.friendster.com/
Posted November 17, 2008, 11:22 pmFriendster pls help me.. I can’t post comments on one of my friend’s (Reeze) profile..the option post a comment is not there.. what should i do? i’ve had this for more than 2 months..
Posted November 17, 2008, 11:53 pmThanks for the updates. I thought my friends are all gone and I was about to decide to leave this site for that reason. Keep up on working and be the best social netwrking on the rest of the world. Best luck..
Posted November 18, 2008, 12:49 ammore power friendster!!!! love u. everything will be alright God will take care of friendster. hehheheh
Posted November 18, 2008, 2:50 amWow a power outage reason lolz!!! Please dont tell us that after having an 85 million data on the servers in Sta. Clara California friendster has no emergency back-up generator incase of power outage, people might not know but upon establishing any data centers including servers they should have a back-up deisel powered generator that would sustain the power of each incase of power outage to prevent the 85 million datas on the servers from being distrupted. So the question is how come it didnt have? lolz must be something wrong inside the management that lead to this hehehe.
Posted November 18, 2008, 3:13 amjust hope that everything will going well as before
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Posted November 18, 2008, 4:41 amNEW PROFILE HIJACKS THROUGH PROFILE COMMENTS!
if this happens to your profile, nobody can view or send you a private message anymore.
to avoid this, you should turn off approving comments automatically. hijackers may embed multiple hijack codes if you don’t turn this off.
hijackers will use your friend’s account to leave you a comment with a nasty web-address forwarding code.
if this happens to your profile, you must delete that comment. deleting this comment will not be easy because your profile will almost instantly divert to another website. to delete that nasty comment, you have to stop the page from loading further so it will be prevented from diverting to another website. it will be a lot of trial and error. you have to be fast enough to click the “stop-loading button” of your browser.
please share this message to all your friends.
Posted November 18, 2008, 5:28 amso does this caching problem here that you talk about mean that we are screwed? This blog about fixing the problem within 24 hours isn’t working for us… the site is glitched and going crazy for the past week already…
We were thinking that some smart dude out there could have had the decency to anticipate power loss that could damage the design structure of the site. Its too bad no body ever thought of the obvious… meaning damage due to power outages that you are saying and using as your defense for this inconvenience we are having here…
in the mean time… I certainly hope our data isn’t lost forever… Next time we certainly hope you guys do the most obvious thing in first learning about computers and that is to make backups of every thing… I certainly hope we are not screwed here beyond all recognition
Posted November 18, 2008, 7:51 amglad to see its ok
Posted November 18, 2008, 8:54 ami’m new to friendster blogs…=D hehehe i’m just happy n_n
Posted November 18, 2008, 9:38 amThankyou so much for telling!!!, i was shocked to see some of my friends had lost.. Now i’m glad, that everything is going to be just fine………THANKYOU SO MUCH…………
Posted November 18, 2008, 9:15 pm::oww thank you guy’s
Posted December 6, 2008, 8:10 pmkeep breathing nyahehehe