Comments | profbutters: A bit of frustration

profbutters

A bit of frustration

Sep 17, 2011 08:48

EDIT: AUGH, I almost wish I'd never made this post. I think I hurt some good people, and I wasn't even thinking of them.

Now that it looks as though the Exchange is down, I have only two options: to pull pictures one by one into a Powerpoint, or to direct people to the pages archived by the magnificent hooptytrib. I hope it doesn't cause him problems, ( Read more... )

technology, sims 2, exchange

Comments 15

leilia September 17 2011, 16:02:52 UTC

I must say, though, that I'm getting a bit tired of the following: "YOU didn't convert your files off the Exchange when it first went down? PFFFT! I did that AGES ago!" with the implied addition, "loser."This ( ... )

profbutters September 17 2011, 18:14:13 UTC

Well, I'm glad I said something, then! I really thought I was the only person who felt like this.

What really frustrated me was that a week before the Exchange went down this time, I had just been reading stuff a week ago, if not less. So I truly was stunned. I think it caught it all offguard. I'm sure we would have started Project Archive the Crap Out of Everything if we'd known

penguingirl03 September 17 2011, 16:19:55 UTC

I never figured out slidify either. I did all of my 20 some odd chapters by hand over the course of about half a year once the exchange came back up. It made MY wrists hurt and I have nothing wrong with them so I can't even imagine how much it hurts for you to work on them. And 20 chapters (plus the 3 from the OWBC) was daunting, 40 is even more so. Mine are only done because I wanted to be able to cross something off my simming list and wasn't up for writing a chapter at the time, otherwise I'd probably be trying to recreate them from html files right now.

Let me know if there is some way I can help, Prof.

dicreasy September 17 2011, 16:29:50 UTC

Wait, what? There are people berating those for not converting their chapters when the exchange first went down? The arseholes!

Converting chapters is mind-numbing and time consuming, and I think we all thought that there would be a warning or something before it went away forever. The disappearance of the exchange has caught us all by surprise.

(Also, like Pen says, if there's anything I can do to help, let me know.)

leilia September 17 2011, 16:56:11 UTC

Yes, there are people who are berating people for not converting their chapters. And then there are those who are lording it over people that they had the foresight to convert back when it went down the first time.

I am sure a lot of it isn't intentionally malicious, but it does hurt. Especially when you consider the work you put into things and the fact that no warning was given. Some of us expected EA to play fair like they did with the sims1 exchange or with the store closing.

The whole thing hurts. A lot. I am glad that some people managed to save their stuff but it doesn't help me when I am looking at one story being gone entirely, because I didn't know about backing up when I did a reinstall and lost the neighborhood.

biglenny September 17 2011, 19:52:57 UTC

People berating other people for not converting their Exchange chapters sounds a bit outrageous to me. At least I'm not one of these people because I naturally put the blame on EA and the website itself. I mean, some of the people who haven't converted their chapters yet probably don't have time to do so.

I haven't used Slidify and/or converted chapters yet, but I know Doc, Lea, and Katri have used them, so maybe asking them for advice might help. Personally, I blame myself to some degree for not converting the Exchange chapters of other people soon, especially those that I'm reading or have read.

In short, the current situation concerning the Exchange has created more drama, and more drama means more problems. This is something I desperately want to avoid.

profbutters September 17 2011, 19:56:27 UTC

That's about right. I think some good people got hurt.

I have Slidify, but it's too late to use it now.

rosefyre September 17 2011, 17:12:55 UTC

Sorry if I've made anyone feel bad - I only had ten chapters to convert myself, and, well, I was actually not doing anything when the exchange went down the first time - I had finished spring semester in early May and didn't leave for my summer thing til early June, so I had a month of nothing, really. So I spent that time converting my not-so-many chapters at the time.

I never did figure out Slidify either, but I guess I was lucky enough not to need to.

*hugs*

fuzzy_spork September 17 2011, 19:26:24 UTC

I'm rebuilding all my updates by hand (using the .xml files because that's all I've freakin got) and it does sting when I see someone say "*I* was smart enough to convert the FIRST TIME the Exchange went down!" I know most of those people are just relieved they aren't in the same boat, and their relief sometimes comes across as gloating. Unintentionally, I'm sure. All I can do is shrug and make a joke about how I lost my psychic foresight in a biking accident back in 1997.

The reason I put this off until NOW is because I can't stand using Slideshare or Scribd or any of those PPT-to-slideshow sites (I admit I hate the either/or choice for the reader - tiny window, FULL screen - is a single browser tab not possible?! wtf). I was simply waiting to find a better alternative! Even if I had to learn the effing Javascript myself. Right now Google Docs does exactly what I want, but it's not perfect and it's still a multi-step pain-in-the-ass process to put each slide together from those old chapters. FRUSTRATING.