Ok, so maybe some of you are thinking "Roy must be THRILLED that Xanga is down."

Well, not quite. As a server admin, I can totally sympathize with the DDOS attacks ... nobody wishes illwill like that upon one another in the server admin world.

Also on another note, I never really finished Tabulas. You may think it's still really new, but the Tabulas project is about 6 months old (I'll have to dig out the exact date).

And it's still not done. There are tons of small bugs lurking around and no proper documentation. if anything, this xanga crash made me feel really guilty that Tabulas isn't on-par so far as a product.

But again, this will all be figured out soon as soon as I finish tokki (which is progressing nicely). i might have a beta-test signup page soon for tokki.

But Oliver put it best regarding the xanga and tabulas situation:

PubertY2K: what is happening here
PubertY2K: is very similar
PubertY2K: to guys taking advantage of girls after their boyfriends dump them

I am quite thrilled that the crash has served as a catalyst for people to at least try out Tabulas. I need to get the word out there that there are other options...

but alas. if only tabulas was 100% ready i would be thrilled ;)