Whats the special announcement tomorrow?

[theedge111]

I have to laugh out loud when I think that U2.com recommended to tune in 90 minutes earlier because of THIS!

This has got to be one of the funniest things ever EVER!

Yeah, seriously, wtf??

 

[KUEFC09U2]

I did laugh i have to be honest, screwed by u2.com AGAIN

 

[digitize]

Oh hey guys, I'm getting a different error now!

["message"rotected] => string(115) "SQLSTATE[HY000] [2013] Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111"

 

[JamietheEdgefan]

That was my original thought, but then I had to admit that to ask people to log on for 90 minutes to see it as some sort of exciting thing is a bit ridiculous.

Just post it. Don't make a big 'event' out of it.

Yeah, the actual act of posting a new remix is great, but advertising it as something super special and exclusive (when the latter it is objectively not), not to mention secretive is a bit much... almost seems like a troll...

 

[dan_smee]

Essentially, U2.cmo said to me:

"Hey Dan!!!! Wake up at 5:30... it'll be worth your while!!!"

I said, "sure u2.com - you have been improving lots lately, I trust you"

"Psych!"

 

[DRay9911]

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

 

[digitize]

The website seems to be working again for those who, uhh, care

 

[Steved1998]

 

[corianderstem]

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

U2.com has a special Thanksgiving message for fans!

 

[nielsgov]

That fits perfectly.

 

[nathan1977]

That was my original thought, but then I had to admit that to ask people to log on for 90 minutes to see it as some sort of exciting thing is a bit ridiculous.

Just post it. Don't make a big 'event' out of it.

Edit: Or, you know, what chrissybaby said.

To be fair, they probably wanted to try to get the jump on an anticipated leak. As it turns out, they were right to do so.

If I'm being charitable, they probably wanted to make a big event out of it because of the fact that World AIDS Day is four days away -- which, let's remember, is what the track was created for -- and they figured they wanted their fans aware of it days ahead of time. Not, IMHO, a bad strategy.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

Ovaltine?!

 

[JamietheEdgefan]

And they already had the remix up in their gallery before the 'event', then took it down from the gallery so they could present 'brand new, exclusive audio'??

 

[herci]

Boooo how boring!....

 

[mirrorballman]

Wondering how many people actually signed up in the past 24 hours just because of this...

 

[nielsgov]

Do you still like the remix, digitize?

 

[corianderstem]

To be fair, they probably wanted to try to get the jump on an anticipated leak. As it turns out, they were right to do so.

If I'm being charitable, they probably wanted to make a big event out of it because of the fact that World AIDS Day is four days away -- which, let's remember, is what the track was created for -- and they figured they wanted their fans aware of it days ahead of time. Not, IMHO, a bad strategy.

All they had to do was post it - U2 fans would have still talked about it. And maybe it would have had the message of being for World AIDS Day. Now we're just talking about how lame of an idea this was.

And it leaked hours ago anyway, so they didn't get the jump on anything.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

I'm begining to think the people at U2.com are less a bunch of idiots and more a bunch of sadists who enjoy fucking with us.

 

[Niceman]

You know..... I might not spend the 99 cents for the MP3, which I otherwise would have been happy to.

 

[Popmartijn]

Sometimes it helps getting home a bit later. I just got home (so about 10 minutes after 8PM GMT), log on to U2.com, see the Tiësto remix of Pride, open the story and it is playing now.
OK, thanks. I listened. No drama for me.

 

[corianderstem]

I'm happy to be amused and mildly annoyed rather than pissed off.

 

[digitize]

Do you still like the remix, digitize?

I do. I am disappointed, but I think it's a neat remix. It's also nice to hear that Bono's voice seems to be in good shape right now.

I'm not sure we should totally blame U2.com. Sure, this was inartful of them, if they are at all familiar with what some of their more diehard fans are like. But we also got our expectations up tremendously, and perhaps we are just a little obsessed with getting new music. I'm not sure.

 

[mirrorballman]

do they only allow nice comments on u2.com???

 

[corianderstem]

There are plenty of pissed off comments in the thread over there.

 

[digitize]

Where is the thread over there?

 

[theedgeu2]

U2.com suuuuuuuucks. I'm terribly disappointed.

 

[bonocomet]

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

 

[corianderstem]

Where is the thread over there?

http://community.u2.com/topic/26366?page=24

Although I'm sure within an hour there will be 20 different threads about it, since that's how they roll over there.

 

[mirrorballman]

There are plenty of pissed off comments in the thread over there.

no i mean the comments where the stream is
U2 > Sign In

 

[KUEFC09U2]

Can i just say, it was nice to have people back together, i cannot wait until the day we actually hear some new stuff