Understood, and yes I know moderating is hard work and thankless work. Thanks to the mods.garyan2 wrote:The moderators have a lot of work trying to keep the threads on-topic. Basically, those that only care about the MS/Rovi service being down, and when MS/Rovi are going to fix it, don't want to see a lot of messages concerning something else. Even if that something else will give them everything they are hoping someday MS/Rovi will provide them. I believe the last time I got in a conversation like this, messages concerning EPG123 were considered "SPAM".
The 500+ additional users EPG123 has picked up in the last 4 days indicates the word is out there. But to your point, there are people showing up that have never heard of EPG123 and may never hear about it stuck in the other thread.
As someone who has been here to get news during outages for years, my perspective has been as a reader and sufferer, especially since the Rovi switch. I only knew about EPG123 from a mention in a thread from the past. I just switched a few days ago. Things are looking awesome so far. Thank you for all you have put into it, and your continued work. Anyway, I welcomed mentions of EPG123 in the outage threads and quick reports of how it went. Helped me increasingly get more comfortable with the idea of switching. Such messages were more helpful than 10 pages of "me too" reporting the same problem, people showing up sure that it is some problem that was established 6 pages back that it wasn't, people sure they have a workaround that turns out not to be real, etc. Yes once I knew about EPG123 I could have come to its forum and read and read, but lots of the threads here are people with tough corner case problems, and if that was the source of my info I might have been scared off. At this point I'm just thinking about other readers looking for a solution, and concerned how many won't find the only true solution there still is currently, after several weeks. Since Microsoft seems to have lost all institutional knowledge of how the guide data process works, it is likely to become the only working solution time and again. Not sure how readers briefly reporting on what solved their guide data problem could be viewed as spam, but then I'm just a humble long-time reader / recent poster.