Hey
@Wreck
Please understand me correctly.
I fully understand that a site this big consumes quite a bit: money, time, and staff efforts.
All those efforts and all those money are fueling site improvement and growth. I remember this site when it was much smaller scale, differences are dramatic. Kudos!
In the end this is all about content. Ads, GB fees, donations etc all contribute to site/content improvement, and current expenses. More content, better content.
The new GB system is also a new kind of content, which attracts collectors.
But recent changes in ads, they need to be justified. Personally, I can tolerate ads on top, on bottom, maybe sideways, but breaking the page reading flow is not cool for me, this shall have some serious reasons. Mobile reading flow is ugly, where the ads cover more than mobile screen. The new GB system could be one one of those reasons for justification. Under moderate/low demand it works ok, but glitches like this one heavily disappoint.
Under such heavy load as yesterday, the site was slowed moderately, which is OK, but booking system failed.
I am aware you are certainly limited in your options for GBs like this, this causes this heavy demand. I am sure your team did as much as possible,with all those negotiations with BF.
It's the overbook situation that disappoints. I do not know reasons, be them technical or human factor, or combination of both. It's just not cool for such things to happen. In the end, you and
@cooey had so solve this manually, something had to be sacrificed. So much for ads/whatever, which implied better GB system technical-wise.
If the system were technically OK, this would be much easier for everyone, much cleaner resolution.
As for myself, I consider the resolution reasonably fair. I will certainly give some tip, and this will go towards better HDN.
But other guys suffered.
And I hope the GB system becomes more robust.
Thanks!
x3 
