I think it's fairly clear that I should just be given an Uppercase account so that I will never again have to think about joining, which is what seems to cause all of this.

No, seriously, I'll join.

Steve,
Wear gloves when you log in :-)

You have to join again. I would hate to think Typophile was all Petered out.

Oh, that was a bad one--I will hang my head in shame now

ChrisL

We have fun when we go out to restaurants: "The Peter Party will now be seated..."

LOL!

I just rejoined UppercasePlus for this year and the server didn't crash! I guess it must be only Steve who has the curse :-)

ChrisL

Well, I joined on the 1st, and I don't think there have been any outages since then! So, I guess it was me.

>>We have fun when we go out to restaurants: "The Peter Party will now be seated..."

And people can spend all night asking you to 'pass the salt, Peter'

as long as he doesn't eat a peck of pickled peppers--for that, he would have to pay the piper,

I had nothing to do with the last outage, I swear!

I did it to get some work done. If you check the Help pages there's a code to bring down the site: \kill{forums}. Takes a while before the guys realize what's happened. Buys me some time.

Are you suggesting the forums are powered by TeX?

I think you mean T_EX, but I don't think so.

>I had nothing to do with the last outage, I swear!<

Sure Steve, we believe you--as if :-)

Well, I still don't have my Uppercase login, so maybe that's it.

I think the login stays the same, you just get 'upgraded' to status 'Uppercase'..
( Maybe you should contact one of the Typophile admins about your 'Uppercase' pending state.? )

Has it been 2 weeks?

I has been two weeks, just. Mind you, I'm not complaining. I'm just noting the coincidence of forum downtime with me trying to become a member.

Steve? Did you do it again?
:-)

I swear I cringe every time the forum goes down now, but I assure you I had nothing to do with it! Besides, now we know that Mark knows the secret kill command, so it must've been him.

I started and finished three new fonts in the last two days! Oh, well, it was nice while it lasted. :-)

how long do you have to wait before your uppercase membership becames active? - - feels like months!

mike,

I just joined a few months ago. It did take some time - more than the membership page says. I sent a few emails and it got sorted out.

I did get access and my shirts arrived.

I got the feeling that the guys that run the site have their hands full and they just did not get a chance to set me up and send the stuff out.

So, I am certain you will get upgraded, but can't tell you when.

Glad you joined - the support is important for sites/resources like Typophile.

Regards,

Mike

Typophile is run by a wonderful group of hard-working volunteers who do the best they can with limited time and resources.

What Chris and Mike G. said. The membership page is a bit deceptive, but ultimately the payoff is worth it. My membership and goodies took quite a while to kick in, too.

Anyway, we all appreciate your UC contribution.

I think we found our jinx. ;^)

Steve, you definitely are the jinx... =)

We don't expect to change the membership benefits during
2005. We are however, cranking on major site updates in
time for our 5th anniversary.

Priority one is moving over to our new server environment for
better stability. Priority two is the forum software itself.
Membership contributions will definitely help fund these needed
upgrades.

=P