{"id":957,"date":"2007-09-27T21:39:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T20:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electronicmuseum.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/27\/launchball-update-still-down\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:05:38","slug":"launchball-update-still-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/09\/27\/launchball-update-still-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Launchball update: back up!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/launchball_dugg.jpg\" alt=\"Launchball Dugg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UPDATE 08\/10\/07: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemuseum.org.uk\/launchpad\/launchball\/\">Launchball<\/a> went live again on Friday 5th Oct..&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I had a suspicion that Launchball might turn out to be pretty successful&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately the guys at the Science Museum tell me that having struggled all day trying to get it to stay live <strong>they&#8217;ve had to temporarily remove<\/strong> <strong>it<\/strong> following a huge response from users which took the main site down for most of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launchball will be back. Meanwhile, here are some facts (cue bad lift musak):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As at four days since live:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt; The main Launchball page has had over 37,000 page views<br>\n&gt; Average play time 5:07 (although this will have been skewed by the down-time..)<br>\n&gt; The story has had <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/playable_web_games\/Launchball_More_addictive_than_crack_And_it_s_educational\">563 Diggs<\/a> as of 9.20 am this morning (27th Sept) <strong>update: now 680 (9.25 pm GMT)<\/strong><br>\n&gt; This blog, (as one of not many sources for the word &#8220;launchball&#8221;) has seen a 600% increase in traffic over the last 2 days (all incoming from google keyword searches &#8211; probably folks looking for a mirror for the downed site&#8230;)<br>\n&gt; The Launchball url has been <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/url\/fa887d913c4e1c1cfd79e1dcc00ae9f6\">saved 133 times<\/a> on del.icio.us  <strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enough. Here&#8217;s hoping it&#8217;s back soon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 08\/10\/07: Launchball went live again on Friday 5th Oct..&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, I had a suspicion that Launchball might turn out to be pretty successful&#8230; Unfortunately the guys at the Science Museum tell me that having struggled all day trying to get it to stay live they&#8217;ve had to temporarily remove it following a huge response &#8230; <a title=\"Launchball update: back up!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/09\/27\/launchball-update-still-down\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Launchball update: back up!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}