We started last night by deciding it would be better to launch the site at night then in the morning, because even though we were tired, it would be less traffic. Turned out to be both an awesome and a bad idea. The site got up by midnight, and was down by 1am. Seriously, who stays up for a site launch? Apparently the bomb has some hard core fans. The servers were obviously slammed and the engineering team here was trying to think up every possible reason the site was down. As the designer you just kinda sit in the corner patiently and hope no one yells at you when you ask the occasional question.

Meanwhile, downstairs vinny and jeff had come in to cheer us on and upload a bunch of the old videos. By 2am their jaws had dropped. How is it possible we could have that many submissions when the site was barely reachable. Luckily they've been through major site launches before to understand the drill and be patient enough while andy, ethan and sean figured stuff out. That's important in any team. 

Speed forward to now. We're all exhausted, but the site is finally running well. I've had some time to sit on the boards and try to look through the bug reports and delete / combine pages. Andy's still plugging away, trying to gain every inch of speed out of our framework. We're having a lot of fun despite how tired we are.

For those wondering about queue times. We're plugging away as fast as we can. I've also been combining/deleting pages as needed when they are requested. We'll get to a decent schedule in the next couple days. In the meantime, thanks for stopping by, I'll admit it's been a rough day, but we love the company :)