Queerty is coming back!
You heard us right, after a few weeks of downtime, Queerty will soon return as the one place you need to turn each day. Stay tuned for more news next week. We’re working as fast as we can to get things back up and running.
In the mean time, we’ve put the archives back up and would love to hear your tips.
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I trust the new sysadmin will actually be checking the RAID sets for failed disks, and that the fans are operating. A report that includes hardware status (and backup dates) should be cron’ed and distributed by email, also, so that several people can see it each day.
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YAY! YAY! YAY!
…and the snark returnz! (i’m sooo bored of playing nicey nice)
omg it’s like when the dark side rebuilds the death star.
queerty, i didn’t realise how much i loved you till you where gone. so unique.
so hurry up and get back to doin’ your thang bitch. (hopefully now conversant with the concept of spellchecker lol)
BTW I TAKE CREDIT FOR THIS — i prayed to satan.
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Your first post will have to explain, in detail and without holding anything back, why you went offline in the first place. Name names. It’s called journalism.
Now, your failed business model, failed technology, failed graphic design, and even failed spelling will surely not be remediated even after this supposed relaunch.
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OMFG! I cannot believe how lucky we are! Today is a good day.
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Divkid, thanks so much for coming to tell me!
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@DivKid I haven’t heard head nor hair of justice or jeffree! *sigh*
Do you know if they had Queerty on twitter or FB??
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dear mysterious queerty overlords,
whatever you do please DON’T mess with the format, i love the little horizontal window thingies and the vertical window doodahs. it’s much easier to navigate than other blogs. yes it could do with a bit of a make over but that can wait; the writing is the main thing, so concentrate on that.
at all costs you MUST keep the sass/snark – if this hiatus has taught us anything it’s that yours is a unique voice. you’ve got that irreverence, healthy disrespect for the party line, iconoclasm thing goin’ on. thats your USP. keep being that badass little brother with an attitude problem.
however, your detractors are right about the quality of your journalism. my god it was minimal. you need to up your game, turn up the smartz. and if you get yo’ shizz together i know this bad boy WILL succeed.
ha ha what a delicious revenge on those gloating a-holes who were dancing on your grave (some of those pricks slagging this site and it’s readers were frequent commenters here too. two faced much. it was sickening watching you kissing the asses of joe j and andy t you sycophantic twats.)
long live queerty and all who sail in her.
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I’m glad to hear it. I started visiting Queerty as I was growing up in Oklahoma. All the other gay news sources were a bit grating to me, but Queerty helped me connect to the gay community in a way I couldn’t back home. Now that I’ve become independent and moved to Germany, I still like visiting Queerty to read about stuff happening in the states. Here’s to a quick recovery!
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Did you not read the response to your shut down on the other blogs? No one really wants you back. The fact that you were going to shut down was celebrated.
If you insist, however, please find some better writers and loose the attitude and awful agendas that target many gay allies rather than celebrate them.
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@divkid: If ur talking about me, divkid. I’m here. :) I just clicked onto the Queerty link by accident to see what’s what and lo and behold. Hmmmm. I want details also.
I did miss Queerty. I’m ashamed to say. I’m hooked. And Queerty does cover LGBT rights stories (bashings, politics, pride events, outings, hypocritical anti-gay peeps getting caught doing gay stuff) that other sites don’t.
I’d read Towelrode but an all black site makes my old eyes sore. LOL.
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@scott ny’er: ‘course i meant you. welcome back superstar.
i’ve been reading towleroad too, but now i think i’ve fulfilled my quota of interest in cute spiders or giant jellyfish FOR A FUCKING LIFE TIME!
unless it’s a gay jellyfish natch.
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@divkid: LOL. It’s all good if u didn’t… I know I had started seeing some posts from a ScottNY and so I wasn’t sure if that’s the dude you meant. Plus, I don’t post that often. Well, at least I think I don’t. :)
Ha. When I posted my previous post, I got an internal server error. Apparently, that hasn’t changed… yet.
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@scott ny’er: Amen to that. I am professional web software developer and I went so far as to create a custom stylesheet for Towleroad so that it could become readable. White body copy text on a black background. Don’t do it. Just don’t. Ever.
Happy to see Queerty back. This was among the top destination websites I hit everyday, and I missed it when it was gone. Though to be fair, it did force me to find a few new places to go for LGBT news, so that was a bit of a silver lining. Cheers guys!
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@divkid: Well on fb people tend to use real names, and I’ve no idea what justice’s real name is…assuming jeffree is jeffree…
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I just couldn’t bear it. You’re part of my news groups. I kept coming back checking my rss feeds. Also, I wondered if you wouldn’t come back seeing as how you kept the ads at the top of the page. I thought that was a little weird if you were really going gone! Its all part of the gay news groups. Each site has a little bit to get you over. Gotta have the snark to check the sweetness overload from the other sites.
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Welcome back Queerty!
Some friendly suggestions, since you have some downtime before your re-launch:
1. Buy a good spell and grammar checker.
2. Contact Rupaul for some snark lessons
3. Give Davey Wavey a weekly column
OK, you can forget number 3
Seriously, welcome back.
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Welcome back Queerty, you’ve been missed! Really. “No one else compaaaares to u [think Sinead O'Connor video- single tear falling down face.]
After the shutdown, I kept searching Twitter, hoping for updates & VOILA there was the good news after i’d almost given up.
@Divkid & @Shannon1981: Soooo dang happyglad to see you ! Hope others will return too. [And that a few others won't, let's be honest !]
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So I’m sorta unsure how I feel about this, on one hand yay you guys are back… on the other great now I can hear more about how Lady Gaga secretly hates the gays because she wants to make a living off a deal with Target as well as see more videos of Davey Wavey and groan inducing articles about kurt from glee… On the whole though congrats
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Well, this is interesting. I don’t know whether to be happy or annoyed at this news. But…
@Jeffree: So nice to see you, cuttlefish.
@Shannon1981: Hi Shannon :).
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@TheRealAdam: Heya :) Good to be back.
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This is wonderful news about Queerty coming back. The reason why I like Queerty is because it allows non-PC speech. If you go to many of the Gay Inc websites, they all tend to censor that which doesn’t follow the PC Gay Inc line.
The only way that we are going to win full equal rights as gay people is to be fearless in how we speak. That doesn’t mean being ignorant or prejudiced. Ignorance and prejudice never won anybody over to our cause. However, if a comment is informed by the facts, it should be stated and not censored. If we step on people’s toes in the process, so be it.
We have to learn that if we avoid speaking out of fear of stepping on people’s toes, our path to full equality will become very narrow indeed.
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Hi. I live in Wales and just happened on your site. I will be interested to see what happens in the near future. From the comments above it looks like you had a very entertaining and informed place to visit until you closed down. I am looking forward to seeing what the site is like when it is back to full strength.
Good luck guys
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Hurray, Queerty. I knew you were too evil to stay dead!
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@divkid:
ditto.
THANK SWEET F*CK YOU ARE COMING BACK. Towleroad just didn’t cut it for me, srsly.
Plus the format was great, the snark was great, the breadth was great.
I’m in Brazil, and also rely(ied) on queerty, all the goddam time!
Woo- f*cking -hoo!!
:D
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The archives are so important…Please know that even if your site is not as profitable as a major outlet or net-hub, it’s an important source for all the gay stuff. I had dozens of pages bookmarked and totally freaked out when the site went down.
Will you explain what happened…and why you said you where done? Only to come back? ’cause I only checked back on an instictive whim. Tons of people are just going to assume your sites down and not come back.
Please give us a proper warning of an impending shut-down if this happens again….Glad your back. :)