DO NOT BE ALARMED. Mumsnet is going to be offline for a few hours SATURDAY OCTOBER 11

[RowanMumsnet]

Hello everyone,

We're very sorry, but Mumsnet is going to be offline THIS COMING SATURDAY, October 11, from 6am(ish) to 2pm(ish) while Tech undertakes some essential maintenance. We're leaving our creaky old data home for a whizzy new high-tech place, and we need to move the furniture. (MNHQ itself isn't moving - we couldn't cope with that )

But! We've no intention of leaving you high and dry. If it's too early on a Saturday to think about facing real life, fear not. We've plumbed the archive and pulled together a selection of 25 of the finest threads in Mumsnet's history, and we'll be putting those on a holding page while we're offline. The long winter evenings morning will just fly by!

Very sorry for the inconvenience but we're afraid this one's unavoidable.

Strength and honour
MNHQ

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OMG what the hell will i do!! You can't let this happen
Tell Tech to do it overnight, pay him extra we'll have whip round!

I'm sorry, this is unacceptable. Its a Saturday, how the hell am I going to cope with Disney bloody junior, dancing and shopping without the release of MN?

Who do I bill for the extra gin?

A few hours you say...a few!
But 6am(ish) to 2pm(ish) is 8 hours (ish)

But...but...but...what will we do without AIBU?? What if I have an existential crisis? Who can tell me I'm real??

Aggghhh. It is 11+ results day too. My sanity will not survive.

No don't do it to us, can't it wait till Monday

Omg.......

WHAAAAATTTTTT!!! That's 8 hours!!! A working day!! That's not a few hours!!

We might actually have to interact with our families. Gulp.

I'm genuinely excited to see your 25 threads

#saddo

It's... it's OK, everyone. It's all going to be fine.

We have to do it during UK 'wakey person' hours (I think that's what the tech people call them) because there are third parties involved.

WOMAN UP EVERYONE. Just remember, there actually aren't any other websites on the internet at all, so don't even think about looking at one.

@MrsCakesPrecognition

Aggghhh. It is 11+ results day too. My sanity will not survive.

Argh! Good luck to the mini-Precognition!

I have a plan. I'm going to invade other sites and see how long it takes to get banned. Mwahahaha

but its my birthday
grumble.
actually I am busy but still

Thanks Rowan. Miniprecog is fine I am a gibbering wreck.

Why can't you do it when loads of us are at work instead of the two days a week we can legitimately MN in the middle of the day?

That sounds like fun Glen.

Good idea glenthebattleostrich!!
As long as you're back on for 4pm,because that's brew & MN time for me on a Saturday.

Oh great, I have some convalescing to do this weekend, and had planned to hole myself up in bed with the cat, a flask of tea and MN. How can I get through it now? Waaaaaa

Glen, perhaps we can invade some tech forums and laugh out their service outages.

I suppose I could interact with my DC, they will happy

Off to bounty debate forum lol

That sounds like fun Glen, will you let us know in advance where you are going so we can watch the fun?

I'm going to be 41 weeks on Sunday, I bet this lazy baby finally decides to make an appearance then when I haven't got mn to distract me.

What if the tech shit doesn't work properly? What then, eh? What if you press the big ON switch at 2pm and nothing happens or it all blows up and there's a small mushroom cloud over MN Towers?

I think we should be told.

Is my poor DS I feel sorry for.

I'm going to be whining round him to play with me when he's got important things to do. (Halo on Xbox.)

Could clean the bathroom I s'pose.