As I’m sure many of you are aware, there has been a new PocketFives.com design up for a week or so. It has had its fair share of trouble (slow page loads, etc), but I’m pretty sure it’s a good thing for the site in the long-run once the major kinks are worked out.

However, I’m not really here to post about the new design specifically. I’m here to talk about something funny that I found:

You may notice that the new P5s URLs do not have the crazy hex code in them anymore. Now they contain the actual post title, minus various special characters that can’t be in a URL. However, that means that some changes needed to made. What if a post had the same title? You can’t have two posts with the same URL. So the development team made it so any new post would generate a unique id on the end of the title.

For instance, a new post with the title “lilholdem954″ might have a big number on the end of it if you made it today because there have problem been lots of posts with his screen name as the only part of the title minus the special characters.

I know what you’re thinking: “Get to the funny part dumbass.” Okay, okay. The funny part is that the “FTP Down” thread from this evening ends with a 14! (see here). That means there have been 13 threads posted before with the text “FTP Down”.

That really says a lot about how retarded FTP is. I have a friend who works there and even though I haven’t seen the guy in person except for when I met him in AC over three years ago, I consider him to be a pretty good friend and he’s done me some pretty major favors over the years. He’s a great employee for their site and blah blah blah. But the site is terrible in some very significant areas! First, they treat their affiliates like crap. The stunts they pull over and over to fatten their own wallets are just borderline absurd. I know of many affiliates who have pulled FTP and are so angered that they’ll never promote them again. While it’s questionable whether that will even really impact FTP, it’s never good business to piss off your business partners by making silly rules. Second, the software is really unstable. How is that possible!?! Why on earth would a company that stands to lose six or seven figures due to every crash have software that is even remotely unstable? They can afford to hire a small army of programmers and testers and it would still be better than having the server crash routinely. It’s really pathetic to watch the 2nd biggest site in the world have such significant software performance problems.

Anyway, that’s my rant of the night. Congrats to Memphis and KU on advancing the the National Championship game and good luck to Memphis.

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