Service down - unable to register our sites

The current downtime is indeed frustrating for all of us. Thank you for understanding, peapodgirl.

Any Idea when the Technical problems will be rectified ???

Servers have been down for last few weeks as far as I can ascertain. Like many other web enthusiasts and webmasters I find this extremely frustrating in the light of the importance the ODP plays in attaining site recognition.

Any Idea when the Technical problems will be rectified ???

Any Idea when the Technical problems will be rectified ???

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It is frustrating but I'm afraid we have no information about when the technical problems will be resolved. As soon as we know that everything is working again we will update the forum annoucement.

Thank you for your patience.

photofox said:

It is frustrating but I'm afraid we have no information about when the technical problems will be resolved. As soon as we know that everything is working again we will update the forum annoucement.

Thank you for your patience.

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Thanks for your prompt reply, as it seems the frustration on your side must be more intense, having to answer the same question over and over again with the same repackaged reply of "Please be Patient" when in actuallity you really have no more of a clue as to when the Technical issues will be resolved than the average newbie such as myself.

Anyway .... Thanks for YOUR patience.

submit URL is not workable

Hello!
I am trying to link my website <url deleted> but submitting URL is not working.

Please see the Announcement at the top of the forum, and the posts immediately before yours. Thanks.

not able to submit my site in dmoz

hi

iwant to submit my site in dmoz. but last 15 days when i go on dmoz i show a massage on the suggest url page that is "service unavailable". so please clear me how much time its take for accept the submission.

Thanks & Regards,
Philip Mould

Hi Philip,

All information we have is in the announcement at the top of the forum. Please also read the earlier posts in this thread. Thank you.

is there any way we can help?
i mean its like medieval yeras,
everything looks so dark here.
Maybe u the mods have no update of the situation as well,
but u still can press them to do smthig bout it.
I m willing to help in any way!
i really do

Thank you, but everything that can be done is being done by those that can do it. The rest of us just have to be patient.

ODP + November = Lost

Just wanted to chime in and add my voice to the collective frustration. ODP is really shooting itself in the foot with this one. Troubleshooting the problem should be as 'open' as anything else.

As we continue to wait for the wizard behind the curtain, one can't help but wonder whether Mr. Gates has anything to do with it.

Bill Gates? Seriously, I don't understand

I must have missed the thread about how Bill Gates might be behind this.

It's a pretty pathetic wsBut, still, today, DMOZ still down with no further explanations, no comments, nada.

Just did some research and found this post on a directory board from a dmoz editor:

After a major hardware problem, which wasn't so easy to fix, we had problems with our software and the backup. Problems never seem to come alone. Before giving access to all editors a group of technical high experienced editors and the AOL technical staff are testing every part of the software and repairing what needs repairing. Only when they are confident that all is working as it should the other editors will be given access.

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Could be months, kind of like waiting in line for a crumb of bread in a Soviet country.

There are better ways to get listed, this I am sure of.

Cheerio!

<url removed>

I'd like to point out that dmoz is not down, and wasn't down for more than a few days. The directory at http://dmoz.org remains where it was and still has millions of (we like to believe) useful listings. And last time I checked the data dump was available too.

True, we're stalled in our effort to improve the directory, both by adding new listings and by trimming out link rot. That's very frustrating for us as editors, and is made even more frustrating by our not knowing when it will be fixed.

But coming in here and berating us for it seems a lot like berating an accident victim for bleeding, and then berating him some more because he refuses to tell you when the bleeding will stop.

And yelling at us because the freakin' suggestion box isn't working? That's just too pathetic for words.

But bleeding for months and months?

I guess you are right. I shouldn't be kicking at a bleeding directory even though I am just a poor sap trying to get my new website listed on the internet so that people can find it. Where are my manners? gosh

Is it just an internet myth that DMOZ is the portal from which search engines find new sites? That's the thing...billions of pages with more coming along every day but can't be found without DMOZ?

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Is it just an internet myth that DMOZ is the portal from which search engines find new sites?

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Yes, it is just an internet myth. Search engines may use DMOZ as one source at times, but what most people do not realize is that almost all editors use the search engines as one of the ways they find sites to list. If it required a listing in DMOZ to fare well in search engines then the search engines wouldn't be much of resource for editors, would they?

Technical problems...

Dear ones, I really cannot understand what sort of technical problems may not be solved within a month. I mean, a broken hard disk is promptly replaced: some data is lost, but after restoring the last backup all works like a charm.
A messed up and damaged operating system is restored within a week, reinstalling it from scratch.

This situation makes me think that maybe there's something else, maybe something related to administration or gerarchical issues...

It's just my curiosity: can you be more precise on that "server problems" that have been preventing dmoz.org to work for a month?

When we have additional information to share, we will update the announcement thread at the top of every forum here.

Not really, since only the AOL technical staff really knows for sure, and since they are busy working on it and have limited interactions with the volunteer editors information is just as slow to us as it is to everyone else.

There are almost 600, 000 categories that are all cross linked, there are over 7,000 active editor accounts around the world, and there are multiple servers operating independently but sharing information and processes between them. I am not a technical editor by any stretch, but I can see where a major system crash that resulted in damaged or lost data could be a time consuming effort to repair and restore. Not to mention that once it was restored, before I turned 7000 volunteers loose back into it I would want to make absolutely sure that I diagnosed the exact problem correctly the first time. Heaven knows what the reaction would be if after only 3 weeks the directory came back up only to crash the next day and be down another 3 weeks.

I understand its hard for anyone (outside of the AOL technical staff) to understand, but the only thing we can say at this point is that it is being worked on and hopefully they are getting closer to getting things back up and running smoothly. I can only hope that when it does get back up that they have been thorough in the diagnosis and repair so it doesn't happen again. I (again, just an opinion) from personal experiences on a much, much smaller scale, have seen positive progress following major system crashes. Hopefully having an unforeseen catastrophe of this nature, the new system will be a lot better protected from future unforeseen catastrophes.

>Dear ones, I really cannot understand what sort of technical problems may not be solved within a month.

That's a very fair statement: any sort of technical problem even the average grunt programmer could understand could be solved within a month.

Which, to the more technologically savvy observers, will suggest something about the complexity of the problems encountered.

I cannot submit. Please help

Hi

I am trying to submit my site <url removed> to dmoz in the right section but i am getting a technical error? this has been there now wor days. any ideas when i would be able to submit my site.

thanks

paul