Marathon Weekend 2023

[GrandAdmiralStrife]

 

[sandam1]

Not sure runDisney's social media team is on the ball - I still have circles and dwarves

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REALLY????????????

 

[Kerry1957]

message in the queue is updated to show 11:00 instead of 10:37. The message is unchanged.

Apparently that is what they call an update.

 

[camaker]

I wonder that because they got rid of ap, dvc, and registrations thru travel agents, it just made that many more people at the same time.

'They typically only made 10% or less of total bibs available for early registration. Don't think that could account for this level of catastrophe. I think the popularity of the anniversary caught them by surprise.

 

[Kitty-chan]

Does anyone have IT experience? Is it possible to have a temporary boost in servers or IT resources if there's only a few days a year with massive demand? Or is that unrealistic?

Yup. I'm an IT Program Manager. You can totally do this. Universities do it all the time because we have massive surge in web traffic on certain days/moments (in particular, the moment that everybody can find out whether they got in).

 

[Desdemona924]

Not sure runDisney's social media team is on the ball - I still have circles and dwarves

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I think these are probably scheduled long before registration day and they're too busy dealing with whatever's happening to cancel it.

 

[camaker]

Not sure runDisney's social media team is on the ball - I still have circles and dwarves

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One hand clearly doesn't know what the other is doing...

 

[mackel1994]

I just got through to the main run disney site for the first time - lasted about 5 seconds before switching back to the dwarves!

 

[Barca33Runner]

'They typically only made 10% or less of total bibs available for early registration. Don't think that could account for this level of catastrophe. I think the popularity of the anniversary caught them by surprise.

I think the early race week contributes heavily as well. More people can come down when kids are off school and they can build an extended period of vacation into their work schedule.

 

[lookingforsunshine]

Me, at 11:00 PM last night: In 12 hours, all of my built up anxiety will be over!!!

**narrator** dear viewer, her anxiety would not be over.

 

[lukemorenus]

LOL - Tweet deleted

 

[Disney at Heart]

Bob Chapek put a hold on registration so he could make a last minute price increase!

 

[nekonekoneko]

Well, the fact this is my first registration and apparently it's the worst one means future ones should only be better, right?

runDisney: hold my beer...

 

[jpeterson]

Yup. I'm an IT Program Manager. You can totally do this. Universities do it all the time because we have massive surge in web traffic on certain days/moments (in particular, the moment that everybody can find out whether they got in).

We do it constantly for things like Black Friday, Christmas, Mother's Day, etc. If the infrastructure is even remotely close to modern it's fairly trivial.

 

[camaker]

Me, at 11:00 PM last night: In 12 hours, all of my built up anxiety will be over!!!

**narrator** dear viewer, her anxiety would not be over.

I'm looking forward to the scathing publication from Lady Whistledown addressing this scandal.

 

[marty3d]

So - any wagers on if the site will be back up in time for Wine & Dine registration?

 

[Joe90]

Hmmm. Park entry fee to get to the Expo. Good thinking.

 

[sandam1]

I think this thread should definitely be the DIS thread of the day!

 

[SheHulk]

Holy crap what's happening? Did the whole site crash? I just went to the main runDisney.com page and got dwarves.

 

[hulagirl87]

at this point I feel if I see anything other than the dwarfs, I won't know what to do with myself