h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've come to the conclusion that if H2G2 changed its named to ' Gateway time-out Error code 504' it would have a working homepage.

As it is I am perplexed by how a website can exist with a homepage that is continually inaccessible. It gives the distinct impression to vistors that H2G2 is not being taken care of and is dying a slow, depressing and undeserved death.

The alternative is that HG2 is running like an 'old boys club', accessible only to those that know how, which is not the way to gain and maintain new vistors.

The Tech Team are working on it but it is perplexing indeed

Glad you were able to post

This problem has been going on for a long time, and it has to be borne in mind that it is actively preventing new members from joining and contributing to H2G2. It is even making it difficult for older members like myself to contribute.

The only reason i can post comments is because I know I can access my space here using the Brunel skin. New users are not going to know about that and shouldn't be expected to know.

Without new members H2G2 has no future.

This is how frustrating it is trying to access the homepage. The starting point is from the H2G2 Facebook page. It baffles me how any website, least of all H2G2 can operate like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qqlZnADOnA

I've come to think of those rare, brief moments I can view the H2G2 homepage as little gifts from the Fates. One moment they are smiling upon me with cheery kindness, the next I have capriciously been forgotten, and have to content myself with the 504 error code.

Its a little like waiting for a bus thats very late on a rainy day. I mutter to myself how I'll give the bus driver a piece of my mind when he/she finally shows. When the bus does arrive however, I'm so relieved and grateful I happily pay my fare and take a seat, with all the frustrations dissipated upon the ether.

Well said - same here...