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Dear Friendster Community,
Friendster.com is fully functional and everything is back to normal. Every registered user’s friend list has been restored, all 85 million of them! We truly appreciate your patience over the past few days as our dedicated product and engineering teams have been working non-stop to bring your friend lists back.
If you have any further questions, please visit our Help Center.
Thanks!
-The Friendster Team
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.
This week we deployed a new version of our blogs. Changes include:
For feedback visit the official Friendster blogs group.
We’ve deployed support for the Facebook Platform on Friendster as part of the Friendster Developer Program. Tens of thousands of developers can now introduce the applications and features they’ve built on the Facebook Platform to Friendster’s 80 million users around the world. Friendster is the first major social network and social website of any kind to deploy both the OpenSocial and Facebook de facto industry standards for the benefit of Friendster users and the developer community.
Developer applications on the Friendster network enrich the user experience by providing hundreds of new and interesting features to use and share, with new features added on a weekly basis. These hundreds of new features include music, games, 3-D avatars, virtual worlds and experiences, group chat, videos, photos, sports, TV shows, entertainment, and news and information. For Friendster users, applications provide another way to connect with friends by using and recommending new applications.
Developers can easily port their Facebook applications to Friendster within hours or a few days. Developers can go to http://www.friendster.com/developer/index.php?type=fbopen for more information, download and include the Facebook API library in their code (see Downloads), and get an API key using our self-service web form (see Get API Key). Most applications are easy to port to Friendster, with the easiest being those that use the API methods, FBML tags, FQL queries or FBJS deployed as part of this major release. Additional details and documentation can be found at www.friendster.com/developer.
