Update live!

The issue is fixed now.

Sándor, I'm sorry that you feel that way, and to be honest, when I receive criticism I find it mostly valid (as bizarre as that sounds). Minus the scrooge mcduck part.

If you knew the full story though, of how I was abandoned with iGP and have had to rescue the company, I think you'd see it a little differently. E.g. I had genuinely finished a mobile revamp of the websites 2 years ago and haven't been able to release it, because right after that everyone jumped ship having not completed their end of the deal. I've spent the entire time since then keeping it above water, throwing all my time and money at it. I'm an easy target because I put my neck on the line and am so visible, but that comes with the territory.

Well, people say things in the heat of the moment. Ignoring the snide remarks, the frustration is understandable, and I totally accept that.

Most things people say are like water off a ducks back. I've gotten used to it by now. :P I just hope anyone that feels that strongly sticks around to see the improvements.

At the end of the day, we should really put in to perspective the scale of the problem as well, in my opinion. It often gets massively blown out of proportion, not because it's really that bad, but because people have invested so much energy in to the race that it's gutting when it doesn't run.

Looking at the problem from a purely technical perspective, taking the emotion out of it, it's the equivalent to a video not loading on Netflix. That happens to people all the time, often over and over again, and they pay for it, but it's not so much of an inconvenience. Imagine if you had prepared for a day to watch the video, cancelled appointments etc. Then it's a much bigger deal.

Often iGP only has temporary glitches that last for 10-15 minutes (name a service that doesn't, I see everything from YouTube to League of Legends doing worse). But throw in all the passion, enthusiasm and commitment put in to those races, and the fact that it can throw peoples daily schedules off, and you can see why it causes a stir. I get that, and sympathise with anyone whose race doesn't run.

That's why I'm putting everything in to updates that prevent that. It's also why the league system may need revising in 2015. I think if we have play-anytime system, it's much less of an inconvenience when there's a temporary service fault.

Sorry about that. The races will have restarted. The part of the update which stops them from restarting is one of the parts we had to disable in order to get it working. We're going to add that tomorrow.

The question now is, do you want to run the race again at double speed? It will be done in half the time. I've already done that for one league.