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Personally, I am a little disappointed that you would make assumptions like these not knowing under what situations we where under for the announcement. We picked this date for a reason, and several media outlets covered it.

Yes, MediaTemple does host Teens in Tech, but when I was talking about traffic, I was saying that due to the traffic, the database was getting hit harder then we had expected, and we had to adjust over time. MediaTemple has been nothing but great for us, and we really appreciate their support.

When you look at Teens in Tech, you can not compare it to Facebook — we are not a social network. We help youth publish media content online. We don't focus on profiles, or writing on each others “walls” or any of that other stuff. If you wanted to compare us to Facebook, Youth Bloggers Network is probably the better or our network sites to compare it to.

We are launching several premium features in the coming months, like mentioned by TechCrunch. Until then, we are keeping our product strategy internal. If you have further questions, please email me, and I'm more then happy to chat with you. My email is daniel [at] teensintech.com.

Thanks for your response,

Daniel Brusilovsky

This reflects poor planning on your part though, we both know TechCrunch would've covered you on the weekend and we all know weekends are dead for content, so the same people would've picked it up.

Also, with your note on traffic, if you are hosted (which I am assuimg you are since they are a sponsor) on MT I am well aware MediaTemple can handle excessive loads of traffic. I run multiple sites on the lowest level server, and three of my articles have been on Digg amassing 40,000+ in traffic, 10,000+ of that in less than an hour without a hint of slow down and on a WPMU install. So I am sorry if I highly doubt that traffic was a reason for you being down.

As for features, what features are you going to add that will help teens that surpass other networks? You still have not answered that question and to be quite honest, I wonder if there ever will be

I'm sorry to hear that the site wasn't working properly for you during the time you visited. As I'm sure you can imagine, as we encountered more traffic, more parts of the site started breaking, and since our engineering team are all high school students, it was very hard for them to leave school and fix the site.

As of my comment, the site is back to normal as we expected it. We are launching with base features, and will be adding more on top of that, so I can assure you that everything you mentioned in your post will change.

Thanks for the feedback, and I hope you get to try out this version of Teens in Tech.

Best,

Daniel Brusilovsky
Founder, Teens in Tech Networks