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While the Obama-McCain registration page appears to be broken at this time–most likely overwhelmed by all of you constantly refreshing the page–the unchanging black-and-blue interface of Columbia College has undergone a makeover. Here’s hoping it’s more navigable than the last.
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@... columbia college? isn’t that some school for girls in south carolina? i’m happy to hear they have a nice webpage.
@yellow The old website had a much classier look, if you ask me.
@djc I see they’re going for an elephant man-esque reimagining of Socrates
@.... not a real part…
@nik I got an email that the lottery has been extended until noon tomorrow (Saturday). Also, it doesn’t matter when you register, just that you register at all. I’m going to try again in the middle of the night.
@G$S pressed “submit”, took the cat the the park, came back and apparently it worked. Thanks, CUIT!
@ATTENTION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO TOMORROW AT NOON*. Stop attempting to sign in else the server crashes.
Thank you.
*source: CUIT
@... Ya, CCIT runs the application and CUIT runs the servers.
Relatedly, this new design is pimpin’. Give Tom a raise.
@employee Don’t blame CCIT, none of the computer folks found out about this til the very last second. Impossible to deal with these things without some sort of advanced notice.
@barnard, GS its all the barnard and GS shits overwhelming columbia’s servers
@nik GS is part of Columbia!!
@noone The same thing happened to me….and now I’m not sure if I’m entered into the lottery or not. I don’t think people are getting emails that confirm they are in the lottery, are they?
@raaarrrrgh so i the registration form has come up a few times now. One of those times after submitting and waiting for it to load the form just reappeared and it said done. I’m assuming it didn’t actually go through because I did not receive an email. Now when I click the link I just get through to a page that says event registration with one pink bar beneath it and a button to close the window… wtf
@fyi Lottery opened till noon sat…
anyone else starting to see why obama pretends he never went here?
@lottery extended... http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/newyorkstories/servicestudents.html
lottery has been extended for registration til 12pm Saturday
@ugh Anyone else getting this message? What does it mean?
Authentication failure.The authentication service responded with the following message: WIND returned a “no” response.
@meh The WIND system is what checks your UNI and makes sure your password is right. So that means either a) somewhere along the way you entered your uni and password wrong, or b) the WIND server crapped out because it was getting too many requests.
@#9. This isn’t a bandwidth issue – it’s a server issue. People are pounding a server that’s serving a fairly heavy application (the calendar system) with lots of requests and it’s not keeping up. This could have been foreseen, but it’s probably CCIT didn’t find out about McCain/Obama until everyone else did, which gave them limited time to try to cope.
@SGB Free food in the middle of College walk! Samosas, wings and cupcakes! No signup sheets; we just want to bring the crowd to check out our awesome groups.
@CCIT said we should again try later. When I asked them if there is anyone working on it or they’re just waiting for a miracle, the response was “I believe so”. Not sure what they meant.
@still pissed off Is there anyway to call CUIT and see if our name has been put in the lottery? I keep getting different error messages and non-error messages and I have no idea what is going on.
@BWOG! Registration is extended until noon tomorrow, acc. to the columbia website!
@sooo confused So i got in before to the form and filled it out and pressed submit and i got a page loading problem. i haven’t gotten in since until just now when i refreshed it said: valid event id needed.
does that mean i registered or not??
@#15 what did they say??
@WOOOOOOOO I got in only after a few tries. Keep trucking, people.
@let's call them Phone numbers to CCIT (who are responsible for that broken lottery application) can be found at http://ccit.college.columbia.edu/about.php. I’ve called them and I think they’ll do something if they get more angry phone calls from students.
@jesus almighty this is the most upsetting thing in the history of mankind
@i've been trying to register for three hours… maybe the trick of the lottery is that only 600 people will ever get through.
@YES I got into the lottery
@What is... wind.columbia.edu and why does it fail to log in to it repeatedly?
@CUIT isn’t responsible for the Sundial calendar application…that’d be CCIT, the College’s underfunded IT group.
@CCIT doesn’t manage Columbia’s bandwidth…
@pissed off I’ve been trying since 9:15 this morning when I woke up and it hasn’t worked. This is beyond ridiculous.
I think we all need to call in to CUIT and tell them to change the server to something of higher bandwidth because this is unfair to the student population as a whole. Everyone deserves a fair shot at going to the event, not just the lucky folks for whom the internet decided to grace.
@... wtf wtf wtf i’ve been trying for 2 hours
@pissed off It seems as if it is simply a bandwidth issue, but it also looks as if CUIT is doing nothing about it, saying it is simply all of the students’ faults for logging on at the same time.
CUIT is a joke and they should be recognized as such.
@Why is it... that I’m using Firefox at a CU Work Computer, and when I go over the URL for the lottery, it says “Blocked” and the URL multiple times?
@... ugh i have been patient. i got through to the form but it wouldn’t actually go through! now i can’t get back. i’ve been doing this for 45 minutes and i’m getting annoyed. i can’t sit at my computer all day long.
@lolz even the columbia college website is overwhelmed
@... You have been entered in the student ticket lottery for the “ServiceNation Presidential Candidates Forum”.
If your name is chosen at random, you will be notified via email on Monday, September 8, 2008; this confirmation email will contain instructions for claiming your ticket, as well as admission requirements for the event.
Student status of all ticket lottery winners will be verified.
For more information, please call 212-854-7328.
Thank you.
I got through! The site’s not broken, just overloaded. Be patient and keep trying.
@annoyed is it really broken? does columbia just need more bandwidth?