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UPDATED Essential maintenance

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YetMoreTech · 04/02/2011 15:36

We're going to be doing some essential maintenance on Sunday morning. The site may well be offline for a short time, starting around 10am, but we'll keep it to a minimum. If for any reason "a short time" starts turning in to a longer one, you'll be able to get updates by looking at Mumsnet on twitter, which you can find at:

twitter.com/mumsnettowers

For the technically minded (and this would only impact them, so don't worry - if you're not sure if this is relevant to you, it isn't!) we're going to be changing the IP address of www.mumsnet.com. We will of course be updating our name servers to point at the new address, but if you do anything funky with the IP address you'll have to update after we've made the change.

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BaroqueAroundTheClock · 04/02/2011 21:50

Exellent timing - am never here on Sunday mornings Grin

Can't you just put the link on the "sorry were down for essential maintenance page" as well that we usually get - then those that haven't book marked the link can still see it.

FWIW - I don't twitter - but doens't bother me that you're using it.

MmeLindt · 04/02/2011 21:20

Well this is no use. My dh is off for a week on sunday morning and I had my day all planned.

5am take dh to airport. 5:30 home, back to bed. 7am MN in bed while feral children scavage for food.

ethelina · 04/02/2011 20:45

I'm generally not asleep at 3am! I vote for 6.30am when I am. Smile

collision · 04/02/2011 20:40

no excuses for needing to sleep!

whomovedmychocolate · 04/02/2011 20:27

Actually there's no point doing code releases at 3am and I discovered to my peril years ago - if it all goes titsup.com you can't call anyone to help because they are all sodding well asleep. Hmm

TrillianAstra · 04/02/2011 20:24

Because they want to be asleep then too I imagine.

collision · 04/02/2011 20:02

Why can you not do this when we are all asleep at about 3am?

Sunday morning is prime time mumsnetting!!

Wine
whomovedmychocolate · 04/02/2011 19:51

About fecking time you sorted it out Wink

May I just add good luck Grin

Tee2072 · 04/02/2011 19:25

Actually, what I think was wanted at the bottom was a 'back to top' link. Or maybe that was just me?

And I agree with Trillian. Some of you scare me with your Luddite behaviour.

ChippingInSmellyCheeseFreak · 04/02/2011 18:30

YetMoreTech thanks for your reply!!

F5 is all they need to know - we don't need ^^ [which we DO need]

MSN - live and learn, live and learn! Grin

ChippingInSmellyCheeseFreak · 04/02/2011 18:21

Hi Rusty :) Long time no chat!

Yes you can hide them, but they still take up space so that you can't fit any more on there! Sulk.

It's not that I want to hide them, it's just that there are some threads you make one comment on and have no real interest in seeing what happens, but a thread you want to keep in active has to fall off the bottom.

(well they seemed to when I tried that a while ago)

RustyBear · 04/02/2011 18:09

Chipping - you can get rid of threads from your I'm on list- just go into them & click hide and they go. Or do you need to hide multiple threads at once? I very rarely need to hide a thread I've graced with my presence....

BecauseImWorthIt · 04/02/2011 18:01

Ha ha ha - love the idea of taking MN down so that you can have a lie-in, YMT!

Big party on Saturday night?

MNHQ
YetMoreTech · 04/02/2011 17:44

@ChippingInSmellyCheeseFreak

Yetmoretech - will this maintenance include sorting out the 'Threads I'm on' nice to have the sort facility, but when will we be able to delete threads from it??

And will it get rid of this new bit ^^ that we don't need and is just cluttering up the screen?! (top bar now at the bottom too)

Cheers Wine

Actually, no. It's not that kind of maintenance.

The ^^ new bit is nothing to do with me something that loads of people have been asking for for ages, I thought.

I once gave out an MSN messenger address for those wanting updates but I got loads of irate mums screaming at me so I'm keeping quiet this time.

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TrillianAstra · 04/02/2011 17:34

Is @mumsnetowers registered? :o

Alouiseg · 04/02/2011 17:32

Muah, ha, ha, ha, ha.

I'm going to do phoney updates on Twitter.

TrillianAstra · 04/02/2011 17:19

Actually I am now very worried because there are a number of people about whom I have though 'nah, she won't be on MN, she can barely work text messages'... Confused
(confused looks closest to a worried yellow face)

TrillianAstra · 04/02/2011 17:17

Some of you are so untechnologically-minded I wonder how you manage to post on here in the first place.

Click it now, and leave it open, or bookmark it. Twitter can be used for anything that can be expressed in 140 characters, so not just 'hey look at this interesting thread' but also 'the server is on fire so we won't be back til next week'.

Syxx · 04/02/2011 17:11

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
You cannot be freaking serious!

ChippingInSmellyCheeseFreak · 04/02/2011 17:08

ethelina - that's exactly what I was thinking!! I was actually deciding where I could go out on Sunday. FFS maybe I should pray it stays down for a week - might get some stuff done!!

Yetmoretech - will this maintenance include sorting out the 'Threads I'm on' nice to have the sort facility, but when will we be able to delete threads from it??

And will it get rid of this new bit ^^ that we don't need and is just cluttering up the screen?! (top bar now at the bottom too)

Cheers Wine

ColdHeartedBitch · 04/02/2011 17:01

Fantastic you pick the one weekend in the year when I need mn as i with the expil's

Could you have not arranged to have updated them to a new isp address?

BertieBotts · 04/02/2011 16:33

Because they will presumably post things on twitter like "Sorry folks, we hope to be back up by 2pm" or whatever.

ethelina · 04/02/2011 16:12

Well i think everyone should get personalised updates via their alternative site of choice mine is shitihavehadtogobacktoRL.com

southeastastra · 04/02/2011 16:05

can you please also let me know on my favourite chat site catsinpyjamas.com thanks Grin

2shoes · 04/02/2011 16:05

i will just have to asked a twitterer to keep me up dated.
they can use smoke signals