BodySpace Official News Blog

BodySpace member RachelBringIt recommends Bodybuilding.com for all your fitness needs (even for girls who aren’t bodybuilders!) 

Check her out here:

To see the full version of this video and her on-going Adventure to Sexy Town, visit her profile:

http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/RachelBringIt/

and her hilarious blog:

http://blog.bodybuilding.com/RachelBringIt

Many of us have noticed (and reported) various BodySpace problems today, and we are working on correcting these issues as we speak.  Thus, please consider BodySpace to be in "maintenance mode" today.  If something doesn’t work quite normally, please just try again later, as we are tweaking some code and server settings to make everything run better.

Some of the items reported today:

Blog comment CAPTCHAs not appearing - FIXED.
Broken images - FIXED.
Workout tracker giving error messages - FIXED.
Long load times and timeout error messages - FIXED.
Report & forum emails not being delivered - FIXED.
Can’t connect error messages - FIXED.
Forums and blogs down sporadically - FIXED.

3/25 - 4/09/2008 UPDATES:

The programming team is working on optimizing our BodySpace code for speed.  Previously, the code worked, but it wasn’t coded in the most efficient manner (too many database calls, not enough caching/data warehousing, etc.)  During this process, some modules will be turned off and on for testing and optimization.  Please pardon our dust!

Slow blog load times - FIXED. 
Visitors counter stalled - Temporarily turned off for performance reasons.
BodyPoints not accumulating - Temporarily turned off for performance reasons.
BodyBlog RSS feeds not working - FIXED.
BodySpace advanced member search not working - FIXED.
Lifting Stats not working - FIXED.
Missing latest blog post on BodySpace profiles - FIXED.
YouTube videos not embedding in blogs - FIXED.

These are some of the error screens you might be seeing:

These will be fixed soon.  Thanks for your patience.  Once everything is back to normal, if you are still seeing a maintenance message, you may have to refresh your profile or blog (CTRL+F5, or CTRL+R in your browser) to see the current version.

Another huge "Thank You!" to those who tuned into watch our recent Arnold Preview video chat and live Arnold Booth Cam last weekend.

This week’s scheduled live, interactive video chat is with Fitness Model and Bodybuilding.com Affiliate Manager Crystal Matthews and her friend Loni, who both routinely work supplement company booths at expos like the recent 2008 Arnold!  This ninth weekly live video chat will take place Friday, March 14, 2008 @ 1:00 p.m. MDT (-0600).

Crystal will be reviewing the 2008 Arnold Expo; what it was like to work the Twinlab booth; how working booths for Twinlab differs from working for BB.com, VPX, and other companies; and more.

Crystal will also be answering questions from women who want to get into fitness modeling, supplement company booth work at shows, and Bodybuilding.com’s affiliate program. She also might touch upon her recent photoshoot with Jamie Eason!

So stop by this Friday and chat with fellow BodySpace member Crystal Matthews and her friend Loni live! Here’s the link:

http://www.justin.tv/bbcom

See also: our Justin.tv Main Page for weekly chats:

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=106483441

Coming very soon… the MuscleTech® $50,000 Transformation Contest - you won’t want to miss this!

Do you have what it takes to win nearly 50 LARGE by transforming your body?

Stay tuned for more information!  Contest entry form, and further details are forthcoming!

3/10/08 UPDATE:  Here’s the link to the Official Rules.

3/13/08 UPDATE:  Here’s the link to the Official Forum Thread.

3/19/08 UPDATE:  Here’s the link to the Official Contest Blog.  The entry form will be available on Monday, March 24, 2008.

3/24/08 UPDATE:  Here’s the link to the Official Entry Form.  Sign up now!  Please note the updated Terms and Conditions.

BodySpace experienced a minor hardware failure last night with the server’s RAID disk array, and while no data was lost, some of it was crosslinked between users, which is why a small subset of users have reported seeing someone else’s photo on their profile, etc.  (This was not any hacking activity, but a glitch in the real-time data restore & synchronization procedure when the new harddrive was installed.)

If you were in the middle of writing a blog post during this time period, it’s quite possible that the post was not saved, as the database was not logging new activity during the restore.  Everything else, however, should still be there.

This is obviously being inspected, and hopefully everything should be back to normal ASAP for those users.  If you are seeing anything weird like this on your profile, please report it ASAP:

bodyspace@bodybuilding.com

Thanks, and we’re sorry for the hiccup.  Incidentally, the drive that failed was also contributing to the recent slowness on BodySpace since the weekend, so once everything is back to normal, BodySpace should be faster, too. 

3/5/2008 UPDATE:  frozen profile views are also related to this and will be back to normal tomorrow.

3/7/2008 UPDATE:  frozen visit counters are back to normal, but profile visitor list still being worked on.  Hang tight.

3/10/2008 UPDATE:  profile visitor statistic lists are now being updated again.  Yeah!