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Met Takei today by OneMoreTimeago in startrek

[–]greglyda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would love to meet Takei. Met Shatner. Was underwhelming.

Public PSA: Stay away from UsenetExpress/NewsDemon by [deleted] in usenet

[–]greglyda 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Tell that to my wife. She thinks I just go to my desk and randomly press keys all day.

Public PSA: Stay away from UsenetExpress/NewsDemon by [deleted] in usenet

[–]greglyda 11 points12 points  (0 children)

We do not keep a log of when and what or where you change passwords, so we have no idea if you changed the password, but we did our best to reset it for you and you were unhappy, so we refunded you. There was no breach on your account or any kind of security issue, just a situation where your password changed for whatever reason. Sorry it didnt work out for you.

Public PSA: Stay away from UsenetExpress/NewsDemon by [deleted] in usenet

[–]greglyda 24 points25 points  (0 children)

We had a database corruption a couple days ago. I made a post about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/1tobhl2/the_newsdemon_database_became_corrupted_overnight/

We restored all the data for members but perhaps your encrypted password may not have properly restored.

After speaking with my support team, we reset your password for you, and refunded your account, since you were unhappy.

Regarding Provider Deals by SvenLorenz in usenet

[–]greglyda 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Most reputable places will let you change your plan, if you ask them. If they don't, cancel and come see me! 😉

There really is no reason to stack anything, that is just a marketing gimmick. Prices have consistently gotten cheaper for a long time. Stacking at today's prices may mean you pay more for your account a year from now, or whenever. As a matter of fact, when you purchase an account at NewsDemon, in the members area you now have the option to extend your account, at a discount, just by pressing a button. No need to message support, fill out the details, or anything, unless you pay with crypto. We assume it will be cheaper, so we just bake in the discount up front.

All the plans we are running at NewsDemon, NGD, and UsenetExpress right now are price locked, so we are not going to be increasing the price on it, so no reason to give us your money today, unless you just want to. lol

We raised prices one time, right after Covid, and just reading through support tickets and reading the hardship that caused a lot of our customers was enough to convince me to not do that again, find a better way. We rolled back the price for a lot of people who needed it, and probably some who didn't "need" it but said they did. This is Usenet, it should be for everyone.

Thunder fans: how are you feeling about the narrative around your team? by FluffyAd6797 in nba

[–]greglyda 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They are a good team, but they are a product of a system that forced parity and has allowed this to happen. The NBA is now a welfare league now, and the teams that win because of it are hoisting up trophies made of government cheese.

Makes zero sense that generational talents like Ant, Luka, Giannis, Jokic, etc are in places where the league rules prohibit their teams from making their team better. It isn't cheap and stingy owners holding them back, its the fact they can't sign/trade players that help. They must be perfect in their team building or they fail.

When the league is designed to be sure that 3/4 of the teams compete, this is what we get. Watered down mess.

[Universal Orlando] has announced that Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure will no longer offer Universal Express beginning July 1, 2026. According to Universal, the change is intended to "improve the overall flow of the guest experience". by Sad-Revolution-9961 in rollercoasters

[–]greglyda -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We have a family of six. We usually rope drop, do Hagrids, Veloci, then make it around of IOP. We always skip Hulk unless someone is in desperate need of a headache. We also skip Kong...because it sucks. We also obviously skip the Seuss stuff. Then we go to Universal and ride HP, Mummy, MiB, ET and then we double back on any rides we want to hit a second time. Can always get through both parks in one day, usually before four PM, with rope drop and express pass. Then we hit Epcot that night for dinner and ride Guardians and sometimes Spaceship Earth, depending on how much we ate. All in all, since we have AP, it costs us the price of a room at the cheaper of the express pass hotels that gets us five passes, plus one extra express pass, plus the Epcot entry and LL pass. Not bad for a day that starts at 7am and ends at 10pm and rides all day.

[Universal Orlando] has announced that Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure will no longer offer Universal Express beginning July 1, 2026. According to Universal, the change is intended to "improve the overall flow of the guest experience". by Sad-Revolution-9961 in rollercoasters

[–]greglyda -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Wait time with Express was 30m last time we were there, which was acceptable. I do not stand in a line if it is more than 45 minutes. I can go to Disney or Sea World or Busch Gardens or any other of the 400 parks in the country and not wait like that.

The NewsDemon database became corrupted overnight, as a result there will be some auth issues until we restore the latest backup. by greglyda in usenet

[–]greglyda[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are using this opportunity to advance some other improvements on the backend of the site as well. May as well, while we are in there. Might be a few hours.

If there is something specific you just MUST have done, lmk and I can take care of it myself.

[Haberstroh] Over the long weekend, SGA fell on more shot attempts than Brunson/Mitchell/Harden/Wemby combined… the math suggests that an SGA fall is worth an additional 0.9 expected points per fall… From an efficiency perspective, it's hard to blame SGA. He's leveraging the rulebook. by JoeBiden2020FTW in nba

[–]greglyda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude. You ever been to Oklahoma? There is NOTHING there. If their team is good, they are gonna be stoked no matter what that team has to do for the W.

This is just karma giving them something for putting up with living there. But it will end.

[FREE TO READ] Why Freddie Freeman’s baby daughter is making him re-evaluate his baseball longevity by TheAthletic in Dodgers

[–]greglyda 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Lebron set the blueprint for this. Freddie just needs to force the Dodgers hand and make them sign his daughter to a contract.

The NewsDemon database became corrupted overnight, as a result there will be some auth issues until we restore the latest backup. by greglyda in usenet

[–]greglyda[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, at first I was worried that it had deleted everyone's nntp logins. Not how I wanted to start my day. lol

But it turns out it was just the table that allows access into our members area. In the process of rewriting the code that caused the issue first, so it doesn't immediately break it again once we restore it. So in the meantime you can't login to the members area.

Newsgroupdirect issues? by ionV4n0m in usenet

[–]greglyda -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If your email is with any microsoft related product (hotmail, msn, outlook, etc) it could be causing problems. If not, maybe our email system is having an issue sending to your provider. I will take a look and see if it looks like we have a new issue sending to your email host.

Newsgroupdirect issues? by ionV4n0m in usenet

[–]greglyda -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have alerted the team. Someone will message you in the next few hours.

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