Can't get to tea database
Day 3 of the Steepster blackout and things were getting more and more desperate. The dragon wells were beginning to dry up, the moonlight whites baking in the sun. Bots on the explore page were marching on, a new spam account popping up every minute. The Steepsterites could hardly hold their sipdowns back any longer. How much more could they take before they perished from lack of tea database? Only time will tell….
This freeze have only one positive note I can find out. I am able to read all the notes I left behind during Easter break; without checks where I have ended.
The other things are negative.
And we’re up!
Partially. Seems like all the processes are playing catch up.
Edit: maybe I spoke too soon in my excitement. I could access a few tea pages but can’t now.
Well, it’s still a progress. Or lucky error. Cache thing. I don’t know, but honestly it made me a smile, but yep, it’s sadly still not working as expected.
Well I guess this is good motivation to get back to trying to make my own replacement.
Now I just wish I could get to my own data so I can archive it off.
You can actually download your Steepster notes through your RSS feed. If you go to https://steepster.com/username/feed.rss, you can save all your notes as as text file.
This may sound like a crazy idea but I wonder if enough of us pooled our money together, maybe we could buy the site from Adagio and finally update it?
I’m on board with that! I’ve wondered for a while if there might be a way for users to manage the site ourselves. My husband is convinced that Adagio bought it with the intention of letting it die.
LuckyMe, thanks for the reply. Wish I had known it earlier as I went through a tedious manual copy and paste of my tealog to get everything out yesterday. :)
RSS feed doesn’t include ratings, so they would have to be manually copied out if anyone else is interested.
A big company, like Adagio, isn’t going to buy anything unless they see the potential to make money from it. We already know there were some “tests” of strange affiliate links on certain tea pages, not to mention all the 52Teas’ entries that “redirect” to Adagio teas under the “purchase” link. Likely they never found a good and consistent way to monetize the site that really clicked, and thus there is no value/reason for them to care about this place or provide support.
Weirdly (or perhaps encouragingly), I can still edit teas on the back-end, although it gives me an error despite the changes going through.
If you are participating in the Sipdown Challenge, you can still view the teas and add in the ones you are drinking. It may appear that it isn’t posting, but if you leave the page and return to it, it has posted.
HEEEEEYYYY I can log in again. (Deleted my internet history and was getting an ‘oops’ page for that too.) and it’s good to see tea pages are coming up again. THANKS STEEPSTER TEAM.
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