Mumsnet almost unusable this morning?

[IceRebel]

I doubt this will even post given all the issues this morning.

Has anyone else been getting a white screen and pages not loading?

It's making the site almost unusable, where as all other websites i'm on seem to be working as normal.

I’ll report your OP. See if that alerts them. This has been going on for weeks/nay years for me.

I thought MN had been hacked, there have been so many page load faults.

Same here

Terrible this morning. Keeps saying no internet connection when it's actually fine thanks.

MN has been very quiet for a couple of weeks so this may explain it. I’ve only had problems myself this morning and only with MN.

Me too

Yes, constant white screen. Yesterday was poor but today is terrible.

I’ve reported your OP. So see if anyone’s awake at HQ, get the tech guy to wake up and take a look. MN tech dept is fairly useless. As for the constant hacks....

Thanks Dobby.

Yes, very annoying. For the last couple of days, it also hasn't been changing the colour of the posts I have read. Highly irritating.

Got this here too - plus the odd one of those annoying pop up ‘congratulations you have won’ messages, I wondered if they were linked?

Yes, couldn’t even get on the site this morning, on my iPhone. At one point downdetector did say the whole site was down, but mainly it said it was working fine, so I’m glad to hear it wasn’t just me.

MN has been very quiet for a couple of weeks so this may explain it

I did think the site seemed less busy. Fewer posts on threads etc.

Thanks for all those who have reported, hopefully MNHQ can give us some idea of what's going on. It seems to be working better for me now, with only 1 or 2 refreshes needed. However, compared to other sites that's still pretty poor.

Yes here too. Eventually it resolved itself.

I've had this problem for a few days, and today I can't use it at all on Chrome.

Yup, for the last 2 or 3 days - just Mumsnet, pages from other sites are loading fine.

Yep same for me this morning and off and on through this past week. No problem with other sites.

Me too-intermintently for the last week or so

I tweeted them twice but radio silence back

I tweeted them twice but radio silence back

When did you tweet? An update would be nice, especially considering previous hacks and site insecurities.

Yep keeps happening here too. SO frustrating! I just want to be able to MN whilst I have my morning coffee!
@MNHQ, please sort this out ASAP! You claim to not know why it keeps happening, which makes me nervous it's another hack that you will tell us about after our personal data has been compromised.

The reason is that their servers can not cope with the volume of concurrent users overloading the server

Saturday morning must be a peak time.

I got a random message which said something about MNHQ trying to increase server capacity, but that's not an instant thing.

I've got no idea how their server infrastructure is architected, but it could involve them adding additional capacity via their service provider or similar. That's just me speculating.

I got it and I have been getting where I go to use MN and it says I have to log in again??

Saturday morning must be a peak time.

Another poster said it's been ongoing since 5am. Surely that's not a peak time for activity?

@MNHQ, please sort this out ASAP! You claim to not know why it keeps happening, which makes me nervous it's another hack that you will tell us about after our personal data has been compromised.

Easy solution is to set up a separate email account just for MN, and give the most minimal info possible. You shouldn't give "personal data" to MN, it isn't necessary.

It's nothing to do with a hack it's a server capacity problem, so stop catastophising and keep it in perspective.