[What happend to the Test Magic???]

site might be up soon:

I'm taking the site (urch.com) down for a few minutes to attempt to install the backup.

— TestMagic (@testmagic)

February 25, 2010

:):):):)

[What happend to the Test Magic???]

The site had a hard-drive failure, meaning we need to rebuild the entire forum. With luck, we will be finished within a few hours, but it's appearing more likely that it will be longer, perhaps a day or two, before the forums are up and running again.

Hard drive failure... no backup? Ouch.

[What happend to the Test Magic???]

The stress people are apparently feeling over this compels me to ask: for those of us who have no idea what this means, what is Test Magic?

Test Magic? Only the most glorious of sites!

Neurotic economics PhD applicants the world over used the forums at Test Magic to track admissions decisions by grad schools, make public their information about economics grad school, and vent their anxieties about their futures.

I think this is a good summary - I've only been using for about three weeks.

[What happend to the Test Magic???]

apparently a similar thing happened last year in April...there's a post to that effect on the results page

any idea how long it took for them to resolve it?

April wouldn't be so bad compared to this primetime blackout :/

[What happend to the Test Magic???]

Does anybody know what happened to the test magic????

tm italos

I sent an @testmagic on twitter.... maybe erin will respond?

This is brutal, the RAs in my department (self included) are tweaking out.