iro-ny (n): an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected
Last week's PBase outage and the subsequent read-only mode seems to have driven many PBasers over to SmugMug. Since many of my favorite photographers have moved over there, I try to keep up with their photos at their new home. Today, I find that SmugMug is having "temporary difficulties" and is in read-only mode. Going back through the past status messages, I found the following issues just since September:
- 09/01/09 Site Down
- 09/01/09 Emergency Network Maintenance
- 09/04/09 Site Down
- 09/07/09 Uploading Issue
- 09/08/09 Uploading and Speed Issues
- 09/19/09 SmugMug Offline
- 09/30/09 Site Offline
The irony of all this amuses me.