ElegantlyLuminous
I'm tempted to do a few lovebug recolors for this. redface I shouldn't, but I'm tempted.
Also: the most annoying bug I can recall is couple of days a few years back where we weren't getting quote notifications and I had a lot of people quoting me for some reason at that time. It was rather difficult/annoying to have to be watching so many threads at once. My computer was on the fritz so it really fried the battery to have so many tabs up. (I don't know why. The two shouldn't have been related.) It was a relatively minor bug, all things considered, but still rather obnoxious. Although that was probably more the computer malfunction than the bug...
Ah, so many epic bugs to consider. That one was very obnoxious and it's happened more than once over the years.
It's hard for me to pick the worst one. There were the ones that kept me off Gaia (log in bugs), the complete breakdowns of notifications, the complete loss of an extensive wish list--twice!, but the one I remember most vividly totally ended the original reason I came onto Gaia in the first place. I originally came over with a group of friends from another forum so we could enjoy animated chatting in towns and houses. There were on and off about 15 of us. We spent a lot of time developing our houses for fun meetup spaces and also enjoyed the seasonal variations in towns. About a year or so in, people would disappear and not be able to join the chat because they got split off to a different server that couldn't see the rest of the group. This got progressively worse fairly rapidly until people couldn't get on at all and chats were impossible. We waited but eventually went somewhere else to chat. Most of the group left Gaia; only I and one other friend remain and she's only on very occasionally. The bug was never fixed. A year and a half later they did 2 things. They replaced the servers with better ones and they debuted towns2 which was never as user friendly as the original towns and by then everyone was gone.
People have told me of another even worse bug earlier on. There was a server and database crash and everyone lost their inventories permanently and had to start over. Apparently half their membership left over it.
Oh a lovebug pun one would be great. Bad puns are encouraged in this event.
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