What would happen if wincusto was shut down for a week?

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Just a thought, being that sometimes to really iinprove a site, you might need to shut it down... completely... so emplement new systems.

So, what would happen if Wincustomize shut down for a week? We could all go to XP Theme.com but then again, its database is the same as here, so if Wincusto goes down, so does xp themes.

hmmmm... what about putting up a rescue sit that just puts up the last 30 days of uploads and the forums?

I am just thinking of ways that wincustom can mutate into something it wants to be without everyone on its back while its doing it.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok guys!...lets get joeKnowledge!

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'd imagine a lot of lost revenue for Stardock, so the likelihood of that happening is slim to none.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just a thought, being that sometimes to really iinprove a site, you might need to shut it down... completely... so emplement new systems.


No you don't, unless a) you're a lousy developer; or b) you've stumbled upon a major security/stability flaw. B is unlikely, or we would've seen it by now (sites aren't that hard to secure really), while A is unlikely as well, else StarDOck would have been out of business years ago.

Developement usually takes place on a different server and only gets moved to the live one once things are done.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
please don't get me!!!
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"what would happen if Wincustomize shut down for a week?"

Pretty sure I would tremble for a while, then maybe get irritable, followed by dizziness and perhaps black out. After that, it would be all good, unless I hit my head on something when I fell down after blacking out.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'd have to go to The Betty Ford Clinic for my addiction to WC. Been there B4. It works.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If WC went down for week...I would be forced to...go outside. The horror! Let's never speak of this again!
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't even want to think about it. It's to scary!
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My wife would celebrate.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
what would happen if Wincustomize shut down for a week?


I will actually have a valid excuse to shutdown my PC

If WC went down for week...I would be forced to...go outside.


You mean there is actually an 'outside' I always thought it was a myth
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think people may find they actually have
a real life to live.

But then again that may be such a scary thought
so lets hope it doesn't happen any time soon...
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If WC went down for a week... I'd be sad, sad.... but then i'll be ok...well maybe not.. I'd still be sad.. No way Im going outside.. the sunlight would permanently blind me, plus it burns..it burns!!!
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Life would end as we know it!!
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You. Joeknowledge. Speak not this blasphemy again.

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Never really though about it. UNTIL NOW!!!! THANKS JOE!!!!
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A day or two is fine even a week. If you need to work on the site then fine, go ahead see if I care. It's not like I check in here everyday or every other day, not at all. Sometimes I check in maybe once a week or twice a week maybe more but who keeps track? It's not like I know each wallpaper in the gallery by heart or anything like that nor do I keep a watchful eye on desktop themes, I wouldn't know anything about new or upcoming products or stay abreast of what's going on in the skinning world. Just don't shutdown anything to do with upgrades to windowblinds,Icon developer,skin studio,icon packager,fx or desktopx........ok. mess with those and there may be trouble.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Please don't ask. I just got my neck brace off from the last miniscule downtime.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't have to come here. Really. I can stop any time I want to.

Really......I can.

You believe me don't you?
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ahah! Finally, a thread where everyone has a healthy sence of humor. Bless ya'll
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Joe, this was a very evil thread to start, how dare you put us all through this torture at the mere thought of this happening!

Im with Red Buzzard ..
Life would end as we know it!!


evil, evil, evil..::NODS::


LoL,
Zero.
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
WC closes for a whole week i'd have to use my imagination to see beyond the screen....hm...well...i see black...yeap,it must be a dead world without WC around.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
this thread is not evil, nor is it part of an axis of evil... or an axis of threads... or a war of the threads... its not a new bugs bunny... or a episode III prequel thread...


Its just a though... wouldn't it be 'easier' to make all those wonderful additions to wincusto???
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
though = thought .... Spell checker 
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The only good thing about WC shutting down for a week is that we won't see (read) Jafo correcting anyone's spelling.