Evite fails on the year’s biggest party night
No one cool uses Evite anymore. You know this. I know this. Auren Hoffman, chief executive of search startup RapLeaf and an investor in competitor Socializr, wrote a column for us two years ago about why he hates Evite. But it’s still the biggest event website around.
Well, now we can add another item to Hoffman’s litany of complaints - Evite is down in New Year’s Eve. That’s right, it’s down on one of the biggest party night of the year. And according to the site, the down time - which only includes "certain pages" (like, um, the main Evite site) - is due to scheduled maintenance. Now, I’m not really sure what’s going on; I’m guessing that Evite is having trouble dealing with traffic, and the "scheduled maintenance" message is just the default error page.