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March 7, 2018
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Non-official Oculus downtime venting and mayhem thread

Blow off steam here while we wait for a fix!

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    Baldur
    Participant
    March 8, 2018

    Aelinthali said:

    Wow.  As a ex-controls engineer and current computer programming major in college, I can verify this is an insane amount of downtime.  Someone should DEFINITELY have their ass chewed for this.
    #1 "You're telling me you didn't test this before you pushed it out?" 
    #2 "Why can't you revert to a working version?  What do you mean you trashed the backup?"
    #3 "It's a certificate problem?  Issue new certificates or patch in a temporary bypass!"
    Those are just the three that pop off the top of my head I'm sure there are others.  This is coming up on 24 hours and my RMA nerve is getting twitchy.  The only thing keeping me from taking a trip to Best Buy ASAP is that I really liked the Oculus and I want mine back.  NOW.
    By the way Oculus upper management, serious damage has been done to your brand at this time.  The longer this continues to be an issue, the worse it will get.  When you start getting those RMA's from retail stores it will be like the guy standing on the deck of the Titanic and feeling a chunk of ice hit him on the shoulder.  By that time, you are already too late.


    Have you read Oculus' updates on the announcement?

    They have to find a way to distribute the update to everyone... Since people can't currently access the normal way to get the update.
    Zenbane
    Zenbane
    Honored Contributor
    March 8, 2018

    Of all the comments posted all over the vast Internet about this 1-day outage, this was by far my favorite (pulled from Facebook):

    My Oculus didn't work for a day and now I'm addicted to heroin and pregnant.
    LZoltowski
    Inspiring
    March 8, 2018
    What did I miss? Is the mob gone yet? Can we have a nice quiet forum back now? lol
    Core i7-7700k @ 4.9 Ghz | 32 GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance @ 3000Mhz | 2x 1TB Samsung Evo | 2x 4GB WD Black ASUS MAXIMUS IX HERO | MSI AERO GTX 1080 OC @ 2000Mhz | Corsair Carbide Series 400C White (RGB FTW!) Be kind to one another :)
    Zenbane
    Zenbane
    Honored Contributor
    March 8, 2018

    LZoltowski said:

    What did I miss? Is the mob gone yet? Can we have a nice quiet forum back now? lol



    Yep, the herd is officially getting left behind.




    kRAyZZed
    Participant
    March 8, 2018
    Unlucky!!! I'm still here!!!
    LZoltowski
    Inspiring
    March 8, 2018

    kRAyZZed said:

    Unlucky!!! I'm still here!!!



    ryan gosling stay GIF
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    Aelinthali
    New Participant
    March 10, 2018



    Have you read Oculus' updates on the announcement?

    They have to find a way to distribute the update to everyone... Since people can't currently access the normal way to get the update.

    Ok, I'll admit that I didn't fully understand the issue when I posted that, I apologize for my misinformation.
    HOWEVER I stand by the end of my post.  This is bad - really bad - for the Oculus brand.  I don't care about getting some kind of payback for the outage.  I have had several times when I have pushed out an update only to have to roll it back when I find there was a bug I missed.  The difference is I almost always made sure that I had a backup to roll back to and a way to roll it back. 
    Aelinthali
    New Participant
    March 10, 2018

    Zenbane said:







    Laurie R King



    “Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.”



    ―
    Laurie R. King,

    O Jerusalem

    Zenbane
    Zenbane
    Honored Contributor
    March 10, 2018



    Aelinthali said:Laurie R King



    “Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.”



    ―
    Laurie R. King,

    O Jerusalem





    That's an insult instead of an argument. Worse yet... it's a plagiarized insult lol






    VRMageddon1Author
    Up and Coming
    March 10, 2018

    Gamerjunkie said:

    @Aliantha have you seen this? lol https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/82s856/for_being_a_facebook_company_oculus_rifts_outage/


    I hadn't seen it til someone alerted me.  I'm still waiting on a royalty check!
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