BodySpace Official News Blog

The age, location, occupation, personal website input fields are all now fixed!  Please test it out and please let us know if anything’s still not working for you. 

For those needing closure (LOL), all the problems reported in these previous posts should now be fixed:

08/22 minor sync problems
08/03 update on lingering issues
07/27 lingering issues from last night

SEPT. 7th UPDATE:  Okay, this is fixed for real now.  Sorry for the additional delay.

After an extraordinary effort expended by our programming and hosting teams, we are happy to announce that the outdated avatar issue has been fixed!

If you’re still seeing your old avatar in the forums, please change your BodySpace profile pic to refresh your avatar (force an update).  And, as always, please let us know if you encounter any other problems.  Thanks for everyone’s patience on this longstanding issue!! 

See Feedback Here:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=3969203
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=4359903

We’re looking at next Monday (August 27, 2007) to be the realistic fix date for the following BodySpace/Forum problems:

- can’t enter age, location, homepage, occupation
- can’t modify contact/private message settings
- forum rep points are gone
- forum avatar doesn’t match BodySpace pic
- missing PM’s, rep comments, workout section
- forum sig never updates
- & other minor issues

These minor database synchronization annoyances were directly caused by a hardware failure and a subsequent reconfiguration.  The databases will be resynched on Monday after the affected hardware is reintroduced into the cluster, tested, and burned in.

During the next hour or so, the BodyPoints system will be offline, undergoing a planned upgrade.  During this time, the accumulation and viewing of BodyPoints will be unavailable while this important backend revamp is performed.

This will bring us one step closer to the pending reality of the redemption of BodyPoints in the Bodybuilding.com Cyberstore!  Stay tuned for more details!

It’s time for another BodySpace BodyBlog Reading with Bernard Picolinate III - this time with an animated video reenactment!  Enjoy!

In this light-hearted parody, featured BodySpace member “olesmokey” has a recent blog entry read by a distinguished orator.  Follow along:

“I have to share a ‘GYM GRIPE’ for a moment. I got to the gym this morning and saw a father and son working out together. I have seen them in there before and they work pretty good together. This morning, however, they took it upon themselves to collect just about every set of dumb bells in the place. At one time I looked over and they had 9, count them 9, pairs of DB’s spread out in front of them. They were doing drop sets for arms - using all 9 pairs. I hope their arms are so sore they cannot even raise them for a week…”

Who will be next?  Click here for past BodyBlog Readings!

Have you met Fitness Model, Figure Competitor and BodySpace Member Ava Cowan 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 BB.com wallpapers!

Having problems with the video?  Click here for the downloadable QuickTime version (33.1 MB) or the YouTube version.  Video courtesy of Mark Peterson and photo courtesy of SecondFocus.

Check out other BodySpace Video Profiles here.

Well, the past week has been a whirlwind of patching, bug fixing, and putting out fires, let me tell you.  Our I.T. guys are working hard to get everything 100% completely restored after last Friday’s hardware failure.

These issues have been fixed:

Blank avatar problem
Forums offline
PhotoPost (photo gallery) offline
PhotoPost thumbnails showing but main image "not in database"
BodySpace running incredibly slowly

And these ones are still not fixed at this point:

Occupation, personal website, PM/IM details, age missing (from profiles)
BodyBlog post counts incorrect for some users (but not all)
Mismatched avatars (forum has outdated avatar)
Forum signatures not showing for some users
Toggling forum avatar is unresponsive (setting)
View statistics & moderate comments pages fail for ultra-popular users
BodyBlog "you can only post every 15 seconds, slow down cowboy" error
BodySpace visitor stats/friends lists/comment counts might be outdated
YouTube video thumbnails have outdated links (for some users)
Forum reps and forum searches are outdated
Forum last activity and recent posts are outdated
Changed username doesn’t reflect in PhotoPost gallery
BodyBlog posts 6-minute delay off main page
Some activated users seeing "Not Activated" error message upon login

These will most likely take a few more days to get fixed, so please hang tight until late next week.  Thanks, and sorry for the delay on getting these fixed - it’s actually quite complicated on the backend, so in fixing one set of problems, we created more, but we had to choose the lesser of two evils so that most of the major functions of BodySpace were back online more quickly.