Parsimonious Needs Your Help!

You can take a quick survey at Parsimonious to help them keep their site up.

I'm fairly new to The Sims myself (about 3 years) and I believe Parsimonious was the first site I found when I found out about CC.  One of my best friends was playing The Sims 1 and she really wanted me to play the game.  At first I thought it was really stupid, but after finding out about CC, I pretty much went on a downloading spree and  was addicted to building and decorating.  Quickly moved on to The Sims 2 and of course now The Sims 3:)

Anyway, Parsimonious is looking for at least 2,000 people to take the survey.  This blog gets that many visitors in around two hours, so help if you can.

Please save us from quite certain death...

Kate says: in addition to a lot of administrative chaos, I'm now faced with a big financial problem which only YOU can solve (yes you...). I shan't bore you with the specific details here (you can read those in our Support pages) but I am now begging each and every one of you to give up a minute of your life to fill in this survey.

It doesn't matter if you've filled it out in previous years, it requires no information that is specific and personal to you, no tracking, no sign up, essentially it is completely harmless, but absolutely vital for us in order to keep a huge portion of our funding (no funding = no Parsimonious or any of the other 27 Sims sites who get free hosting from us). In spite of a really quiet year we're still chowing our way through well over 100Gb of bandwidth each and every day, thanks to some canny thinking and some help from our web host, costs have actually gone down in spite of rising traffic for the first time in 7 years BUT it is still a great deal more than I can personally afford. So please just take it - it won't bite and there's a good chance that it help if enough people respond (I am looking for at least 2000 responses in order to stave off disaster, but getting more responses would be very helpful)

Please help Parsimonious if you can

Thank you Lotus:)

Just click on the area below "Please save us from quite certain death" to take the survey.

And while you're there you can download this stuff and a lot more if you missed it the first time around:)

No It Didn't Happen Again

In case you're wondering why you're seeing things that were already posted:)

I'm trying to re-post what was lost over the past couple of days since only 4 or 5 of the lost posts were restored. 

I'm really sorry to all the people I replied  to about the affiliates and links being added.  I guess they were lost in this mess and around two months of requests were added on Thursday and are not showing up.  Figures, this happens the day after I added them.  But what can you do.  Unfortunately, I delete all emails right after so I have no way of adding them unless you email me again.  I'm very sorry about this.

Just in case this happens again today

It looks like Blogger had a major meltdown and posts from the past two days were removed and supposedly backed up, but not yet restored. I will re-post whatever was lost if all are not restored.  As of now it looks like only one post was restored.  If you've been ripping your hair out over the problems with your blog, keep an eye on this thread in the Blogger forum.  I added the available updates to this problem below. 

We are very sorry that users are unable to publish to Blogger right now. We have rolled back the maintenance release from last night and as a result, posts and comments from all users made after 7:37 am PDT on May 11, 2011 have been removed. Again, we apologize that this happened and our engineers are working hard to return Blogger to normal and restore your posts and comments. We will post a report once this work is complete.

-The Blogger Team

Sabine from Blogger
Google Employee
9:11 AM
Best answer - Eddie from Blogger (Top Contributor) Go to this answer
We’ve started restoring the posts that were temporarily removed and expect Blogger to be back to normal soon.
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Lisa from Blogger
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1:21 AM
We’re making progress and hope to be back soon. Blogger will remain in read-only mode until work is complete. Sorry for the pain.
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Lisa from Blogger
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3:07 AM
A quick reminder: in order to get Blogger back to normal, we’ve reverted back to a stable version. All posts since 7:37am PDT on Thursday May 11 have been removed. We’ve backed up those posts and we expect everything to be back to normal soon.
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Sabine from Blogger
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6:11 AM
Quick clarification: Wednesday, May 11
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Best answer - Eddie from Blogger (Top Contributor)
We’ve started restoring the posts that were temporarily removed and expect Blogger to be back to normal soon.
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Happy Mother's Day!

Even you stubborn mothers who know your son plans to take you out to dinner... and when he arrives at your house to bring your gifts, the first thing he smells is all kinds of things cooking in the kitchen.  And then is greeted with an "oh, I forgot."

Stubborn, stubborn moms:)

Well I have to go back to my mom's now and have dinner with her.  Have a great day!

Happy Easter

Have a great day:)

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