Brightkite Status
Update 11/20/09

4:00PM PST: We are having sporadic issues with certain pages not working for people. Our team is working on it.

Update - 11/20/09

We’ve released fixes for the following:

  • Stream “view all comments” link
  • Internet Explorer comment and stream item overlapping
  • Comment track/untrack link
  • Email issues
  • Adding new places
  • Sharing issues
  • Direct messages getting truncated on web

We are still working on:

  • Mobile web login issues
  • Place snapping/guessing - Android/iPhone
  • Place search
  • International SMS
Update - 11/16 8pm PT

Brightkite posts are not currently sharing to other social networks. We are working on it.

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9:15 pm: Okeedokee - sharing is now working again

11/17 - 10:30 am: It looks like Twitter sharing is working okay, but photos are not making it to Facebook albums. We are investigating.

Update - 11/16 7am PT

(updated 7.41 PT)

Response times are back to normal, and outages should not be seen.

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We are experiencing slow response times and occasional outages. This is being worked on.

Update - 11/10/09

We’ve release fixes for the following:

  • Sharing to Friends + Social Networks
  • Various iPhone bug fixes (“more” taking you to top of screen, SMS links crashing app, adding places, etc)
  • SSL/HTTPS pages broken

We are still working on:

  • Place search
  • Adding places to DB not working - web/iPhone
  • Place snapping/guessing - Android/iPhone
  • International SMS
  • Intermittent sharing problems
  • Mobile web login issues
  • Internet Explorer 7/8 Website issues
Update - 11/3/09

We’ve released fixes for the following:

  • Overall site performance (speed & stability)
  • OAuth not working
  • Fire Eagle not working
  • “Where the heck are my new fans?”

We are still working on:

  • Place search
  • Adding places to DB not working - web/iPhone
  • Place snapping/guessing - Android/iPhone
  • International SMS
  • Intermittent sharing problems
  • SMS links crashing iPhone app
  • Mobile web login issues
  • Internet Explorer 7/8 Website issues
Scheduled Downtime - 10/27/09

At around 2:00PM PST Brightkite will be down very briefly. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Update (2:38PM PST): We’re back! Things went smoothly and we were down for under 15 minutes.

Update - 10/26/09

We released some improvements to address select issues:

  • Increase overall site speed and responsiveness
  • Posting by email
  • Thumbnails and maps on Facebook posts
  • Links in SMS notifications
  • Comment counters
  • Mobile web login

Please let us know if you continue to have problems with any of the above.

We are still working on:

  • Place search (in progress)
  • OAuth not working (in progress)
  • Placemark issues - Android/iPhone (in progress)
  • Place snapping/guessing - Android/iPhone (in progress)
  • International SMS (pending)
  • Fire Eagle not working (in progress)
  • “Where the heck are my new fans?” (in progress)
Technical Difficulties

We’re experiencing some temporary technical difficulties. Our operations team is currently investigating the issue and working on a fix. Please bear with us.

Update (Thursday 12:11PM MDT) : We are back up and running. Thanks for your patience!

Update - 10/20/09

We released some improvements today to address select issues:

  • Overall slowness
  • Disappearing comments
  • Disappearing posts
  • Posts not sharing to social networks
  • SMS notification/posting issues

Please let us know if you continue to have problems with any of the above.

We’re still working on:

  • Comment track/untrack (in progress)
  • Stuck comment count (in progress)
  • “Where the heck are my new fans?” (pending)
  • Email updates not posting (in progress)
  • Thumbnails and maps not showing on Facebook posts (in progress)
  • Place search (in progress)
  • IE8 formatting problems (in progress)
  • Placemark issues - Android/iPhone (in progress)
  • Place snapping/guessing - Android/iPhone (in progress)
  • International SMS (pending)
  • Connect with Fire Eagle not working (pending)
  • OAuth not working (in progress)
  • Mobile web login issues (in progress)
  • Broken images (in progress)