BodySpace Official News Blog

As many of you already discovered, we experienced a service outage last night around 7:30 p.m.-ish (Mountain Time).  This was due to a hardware failure.  BodySpace, BodyBlogs, the forums, and the photo gallery were affected - our main site was still available.  BodySpace and the forums are fine once again (albeit running a little slowly), however the photo gallery still remains broken.  We are working on this and it should be fixed soon.

Also, if you are logged into BodySpace and then visit our main site, you will currently see a blank avatar and no log in details.  Technically, you are actually still logged in and everything is fine, just the information and the links are not appearing.  This also will be fixed soon.  (If you return to the forums, my.bodybuilding.com, or BodySpace, you’ll see that you are indeed still logged in.)

Who was it?  Click here to find out:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bodyspace2007jun.htm

Okay, okay - it is BuffMother!  Be sure to check her out!  And don’t forget, you could be next! 

Did you miss the previous ones?  Be sure to check out our BodySpace Members Of The Month Main Page.

A new round of featured BodySpace members is now up on the main page of our website.  Are you one of them?  Check them out, here:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/

Scroll down to the "Community" section, and see the new BodySpace/Forum members being featured in each of these 4 categories:

Featured BodySpace Profiles
Featured BodyBlogs
Featured Forum Threads
Featured Photo Galleries

Enjoy!  =)

Have you met Fitness Model and BodySpace Member Maria Rogers yet?  Check her out here!

Drop by her profile afterward and let her know what you think of her new BodySpace video profile and her recent BB.com wallpapers!

Having problems with the video?  Click here for the downloadable Windows Media version (28.5 MB) or the YouTube version.  Video courtesy of Mark Peterson and photo courtesy of SecondFocus.

Check out other BodySpace Video Profiles here.

Have you worn your BB.com/BodySpace t-shirt somewhere cool or famous before?  Have you promoted us in public in front of a TV camera or in a large crowd?  Let us see!

Russ DeLuca from Bodybuilding.com has announced that he’ll give $500 to whomever sends in the best photo or video of themselves wearing a Bodybuilding.com T-Shirt or hat in a cool or public location!  $300 will go to the runner-up, and $200 for third place.

UPDATE:  Visit this article to learn more and see recent examples of photo submissions:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/tshirtcontest.htm

Russ DeLuca’s Announcement:

How to enter:

Email your photos (in digital format - high quality JPEGs, please) or links to your video to this email address:

bodyspace@bodybuilding.com

Mad props go out to Stephan Bonnar
at UFC 73 for sporting a BB.com t-shirt!

Contest Rules:

Winners will be picked after the 2007 Olympia, and all decisions will be made by Bodybuilding.com staff and are final. Photos/videos may be used for marketing purposes and by submitting your media to us, you grant us permission to reprint, repost, and publish your work - however copyright on media remains with the originator of the work. Winners will be notified via email. Prizes to be awarded in U.S. dollars via check, and will be mailed via U.S. Postal Service. Photos must be of you, and must not be copyrighted by someone else unless permission for us to use the photo(s) has been obtained in writing. Bodybuilding.com/BodySpace name and/or logo must be plainly visible in photo. Bodybuilding.com reserves the right to change the terms and/or conditions of this contest at any time up until the close of the contest, with or without notification.

Click here for more information:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/tshirtcontest.htm

WINNERS ANNOUNCED HERE:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/tshirtcontest2.htm

We are currently experiencing a problem with image uploads.  Our support staff is researching the cause, and it should be fixed soon.  Thank you for your patience.

UPDATE: We have isolated the cause of this problem (a file system limitation), and are fixing this now.  This particular issue is only affecting new users since Saturday.  Already existing users (who signed up before Saturday at roughly 4:30 p.m.) are unaffected.  Please stay tuned.

UPDATE #2: More info on the image upload problem:  we reached a limit of allowable folders on the server this past Saturday, which means that we have too many users!  LOL, J/K!  Actually, we are so excited that we are continuing to grow so fast but it doesn’t come without some growing pains!  This issue is being worked on right now, and everything should be fixed and finalized by tomorrow at the latest.  Once again, we thank all our new users for their patience in this matter - after tomorrow it shouldn’t happen again!

UPDATE #3:  This issue has been fixed (as of 7/3 @ 4:45 p.m. MT).  Everyone who has had problems updating their main profile photo, please try again - everything is working now.