We (DU) must be on high alert.

[Catherine Vincent]

No avatars or signatures are showing. A co-worker of mine had a picture of the US flag outside her office today. Nothing wrong with that but it was very large. I guess she wanted everyone to know that SHE didn't forget what happened on Sept. 11?

[Monkeyman]

1. I flew my never forget flag you know the one

POW's MIA's

[Individualist]

2. High level of traffic

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=announcement&id=1

[babylonsister]

3. Hi, cat_girl25. DU had a meltdown tonight. I don't know if it was

because of Keith Olbermann's commentary and the traffic, or if someone tried to mess up DU. I hope we find out what happened.
I will be on high alert and would like to know why.

[Catherine Vincent]

6. I would like to know why we were down too.

Keith was awesome wasn't he? I can't wait to watch it again! :hi:

[babylonsister]

8. More than words can ever relay. Keith's show was 'da bomb'! nt

[Blackthorn]

4. This is why...

Some forum features are currently unavailable (Level 2) (Sep 12th 2006)
You may have noticed that some features of Democratic Underground are currently not working. This is intentional and a result of the website experiencing an unusually high level of traffic currently.

Democratic Underground has dozens of features that we've programmed into our software over the years that, while important, are considered extras because they are not required for DU to run smoothly. We are very proud of all these extra features we provide to our members, but when our servers get backed up with heavy traffic we have to make difficult decisions and progressively turn off certain extra features to reduce the stress on our servers. The alternative is a DU that is very difficult at best to navigate due to overwhelmed servers slowing everything down.

These features will only remain turned off temporarily until our traffic dies back down to a normal level. Currently, we are on Level 2. The features that are turned off at Level 2 are the following:

* Advanced search
* Hide thread feature
* Signature lines
* Avatars
* RSS/XML feed for Latest Breaking News
* Forum hiding on the Latest page
* Expanded threads mode
* Ignoring new threads by author

Again, we apologize for having to do this, but it is necessary and much better than the alternative.

Thank you for your understanding and patience,
The DU Administrators

[napi21]

7. That's OK. I'd rather have DU operating at this level than not at all.

I know I tried to log on for almost an hour after Keith's commentary, and couldn't. I'm sure that was the reason for the heavy traffic.

Thanks to the Admin. for making the adjustments so we can at least all be here.

[badgerpup]

5. Probaby due to high traffic...

I got timed out a couple times before I could access the site.
The sigs and avatars weren't operating when Alito was being not-filibustered for the SCOTUS...
Traffic was pretty heavy then too.
:yoiks:

[Th1onein]

9. What did I miss?

What happened?

[Skip Intro]

10. Mnay times tongiht I couln't get into DU Happened right as bush came on tv

some kind of attack on DU?