UPDATED Essential maintenance

[YetMoreTech]

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.

what happens if you don't do twitter?

YetMo, I think you're gonna be flamed.

Grabs popcorn.

Marks spot.

You don't have to sign up to twitter, just click that link.

Can't click the link if site is down though can we?

But you could bookmark it now

Can't you work nightshift?

YABVU.

Mind you, I usually read the Daily Mail Showbiz Independent/Times/Observer online on a Sunday morning so that should keep me occupied.

I don't go near twitter, and bet I am not alone, can't it be on fb as well. sorry just don't get all this twitter rubbish

But if you're offline, how will looking at Twitter help? Won't be able to follow any links as the site will be down

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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You cannot be freaking serious!

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'.

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 looks closest to a worried yellow face)

Muah, ha, ha, ha, ha.

I'm going to do phoney updates on Twitter.

Is @mumsnetowers registered? :o

@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

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.

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

Big party on Saturday night?

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....

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)

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!

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.