It was as if a million bearded voices cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

It seems Bearciti.com is back. I don't notice much of a change in speed, reliability or anything else for that matter. They did leave those delightfully misspelled note on their main page:

NOTICE: We are back. Sorry for being gone for so long. Our upgrade to our new servers with our limited resources took some time. Thank you for your patients. ( Read more... )

It seems that attempts at reaching www.bearciti.com no longer end at a dangling section of ethernet cable. However, at the moment, the only thing being served is a banner screen for Microsoft's IIS 7. If nothing else, at least we know what OS they are using.


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It seems I had run afoul of the site guidelines at bearciti.com. I had a pretty good idea what was up when I got this message:

Hi Greatbear, I received a complaint that your main photo didn't mean our guidelines and they are correct. I think your photo was rated as Main by mistake. We go through hundreds of photos and sometimes we do make a ( Read more... )

Okay, I did it, and I hope I dont regret it. I have a shiny, new BearCiti profile. I'm glad I am not a cyclops.

It's been kinda fun watching the mass exodus from Bear411 to Bearciti. I ditched my Bear411 profile quite a while ago after getting frustrated with the dismal, unreliable interface and increasingly hostile attitude of the site owner to the very people that makes his site popular. While I sadly would lose contact with some of my friends on the site ( Read more... )