Downtime Thursday Afternoon

[Elad]

Democratic Underground will be temporarily unavailable Thursday afternoon (July 16) while our ISP performs upgrades and maintenance to our network hardware. This work will help maintain the long-term reliability of our servers and network hardware.

The work will begin around 2pm EDT (11am PDT). Downtime is anticipated to be anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours. During this time, you may have sporadic access to the site, or no access at all.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding!

[Aristus]

1. No need to apologize; you guys ROCK! As always...

:yourock:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Thanks, Elad!

We appreciate everything you're doing for the best website on the net!

A little downtime is a small price to pay for our excellent access...

:hi:

[Strong Atheist]

3. You rock! Thanks for getting rid of the

<0 from the Lounge; it was poison here.

GD, GDP etc. can take care of themselves...

Edited to add: ...and thanks for...

...your help on everything else...


:yourock:

[Vidar]

4. Thanks for the warning.

[graywarrior]

5. Crap! I'll have to find my dealer's number again.

[Dystopian]

10. No problem....

PM me...

peace~

[Bertha Venation]

6. Aw, jeez, Elad, you know what this means, don't you?

At least fifty threads about the downtime, most of which will be dupes of "What did you do while DU was down?"

[Aristus]

9. My stock answer to that question:

:evilgrin:

[NJmaverick]

7. Elad, thanks for keeping my favorite political site

running smoothly and reliably. Considering the sheer number of right wing nut jobs who would love to take it down, I have to think your accomplishments are no small feat.

[Kali]

8. freaking coastal elitist

what about Mountain Time? Huh?:wtf:

















:hide:

[MineralMan]

12. So, 1 pm EST is what....4:30 PM Mountain time?

I could never get that right. Never mind though, nobody really lives in that time zone anyhow.

:hide:

[Kali]

15. must be I can't ever get it right

what the hell is wrong with daytime and nighttime?

and frankly it seems like too many live here, ya want some of em? they are all from somewhere else anyway

[MineralMan]

11. Well, that does it!

I'm definitely going fishing tomorrow afternoon. See what you've done?!?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Crap. Guess I'll have to clean the garage.

[hobbit709]

14. Oh well

I just got my DSL working again. There was some kind of phone line surge that took out my modem and router. Had a spare modem so I got back online this morning but my router is crapped too.

[surrealAmerican]

16. kick.

Now I run the risk of actually accomplishing something tomorrow.

[triguy46]

17. What to do Thursday afternoon: Brian Eno's 'Thursday Afternoon'

Close the blinds, chill out, relax and listen to 59 minutes of calm.

[GCP]

18. Why not pin this to the top of the page?

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. Thanks for the heads up.

[Robeson]

20. So, in other words, you're saying we all have to actually get a life?

[Strong Atheist]

21. Only for 2 hours... can you

wait?

[Kali]

22. does this need a kick?