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In Which We Apologize For The Downtime

Driving a decade old pickup, my first year of college was hampered with consistent issues revolving around anything and everything electrical, engine, axel, and the front arms even had to be replaced. I’ve had some terrible experiences when I purchased my first vehicle, including a scary engine misfire and a superheated rotor. At times I thought my truck would almost shake to pieces, but every time I managed to coast down that hill and limp the truck into the dealership. Often times when your vehicle breaks down or needs immediate maintenance, it comes at the inconvenience of others. Mechanics have to work late and adjust their schedules, friends are called to pick you up, and it ends up being a terrible hassle.

MacStories has had issues before, but today’s outage and downtime reminded me of all the issues I’ve had in my personal life, and it came at the inconvenience of our readers and advertisers. We apologize for the downtime, and thank you for your patience as we took the site offline, fixed what needed to be fixed, and brought the mothership back online. Needless to say that process didn’t go as smoothly as we had hoped, but now we’re running at full speed and believe our issue has been promptly resolved. We’ll be taking great care to prevent this kind of outage in the future. I want to thank everyone who offered help on Twitter, and a big thanks goes out to Alessandro Vendruscolo (@misterjack).

Now, let’s say we get some reviews out?

Yours truly,

The MacStories Team

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