Friday Q&A

Questionable Continuation

Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome to another edition of the Friday Q&A. I'm back from my vacation to the glorious worker's paradise of Puerto Rico. It turns out they actually have a pretty close relationship with the US. Enough to fully comply with requests for extradition, anyway. Take that, Communism!

Q: Is it the end of an era?

A: Apparently so. This was the news I returned home to, anyway. You never want eras to change when you're out of the country. At some point, most likely when I was hunched over the guardrail of a cruise liner hurling crab Rangoon into international waters, the Photoshop Scrutinizer stopped working. Whilst this may come as no surprise to anyone who has been monitoring the status of that site, it was still a rude awakening to the general public.

Q: How long has the Scrutinizer been having problems?

A: I don't fully recall when the first problems started to appear over at Mr Squirrel's venerable site. At some point, the contest dates stopped being recorded, and comparative stats have been offline for a while now. Bugs aside, the Scrut had continued to chug along with limited functionality until earlier this month. What changed is anyone's guess, but it would seem there's only a matter of time before the last gasp of that long-suffering resource.

Q: Should we despair?

A: No. As a matter of fact, don't. This is the kind of problem that basically resolves itself, at least after the courageous efforts of heroic individuals. Not being any of those things (especially not an individual, damn you Dissociative Identity Disorder) I'm sitting this one out. I do, however, offer my sincere thanks to the person working on a replacement site. Without people like this, our humble tradition of privately mocking each other's low voting average could easily come to a close.

That's all for this time, gentle reader. As usual, thanks for stopping by. It's sad to see a celebrated part of our community like the Scrutinizer fall into disrepair. A process which, compared to the relatively quick death of the Honor Roll, has been agonizingly painful. I guess losing an archive site is like ripping off a band-aid. Though as a medical practitioner, I always caution my patients against removing their bandages, at least until I have a chance to speak with my lawyer.

Stay tuned for more possible negligence from the Doctor!