by Frank James
Just wanted to update loyal readers of The Swamp on the Great Swamp Comments Meltdown of 2008.
I'm told by the people who know that everything is being done to get our comment boards back up and running. As anyone who knows anything about software knows, there are mysteries to be found in the bytes that aren't easily understood.
The problem is that when our technical people turned off the comments boards last week to help the site deal with a huge surge in traffic caused by a posting that got Drudged, went they went to turn the comments back on, the software just looked at them and laughed.
But our people and our vendors "working this problem," as engineers say. We're hoping that there's a fix today but we've been disappointed before.
In any event, thanks for continuing to read us even though the comment boards are currently unavailable. We hope to see this glitch in our rear-view mirror real soon.
Meanwhile, if you need to get something off your chest or contact us, feel free to do so at theswamp@tribune.com.
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