Anyone else find Mumsnet keeps sticking and crashing today?

[TinyGang]

? Keeps happening to me.

[jessicaandbumpsmummy]

bloody annoying!!!

[blueteddy]

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[moondog]

And me!
(Was blaming my not entirely legal Turkish connection)

[buffytheharpsichordcarrier]

yes
it is surprisingly frustrating
tech, tech [clicking fingers] over here....

[Cadmum]

Yes. How pathetic that I am still here trying to get it to work...

[TinyGang]

Aaaargh!

[pfer]

yes...pants.....

[LilacBump]

yes

[notasheep]

and yesterday too,want to leave messages and cant ,not sure if this one will work!!!!!!!!

[bettythebuilder]

yes.
Farewell, little message, as you disappear into the ether, never to be seen again.

[bettythebuilder]

yes.
Farewell, little message, as you disappear into the ether, never to be seen again.

[bettythebuilder]

I promise I only pressed that button twice.

[Squirrel3]

Whats happening? It keeps happening today too, I keep thinking its my computer, checked for viruses and everything.

[zippitippitoes]

no it's doing it again for everyone you can see from the paises in the active conmversatioins..no one posting for ten minutes

[blueteddy]

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[doormat]

me too

[PiccadillyCircus]

Glad it's not just me .

[ddd]

Me too! Me too! It's dreadful isn't it?

However, whilst we all get ready to scream blue murder, here's a few numbers to mull over.

Number of people moaning on this thread: 44

Number that have made a small financial contribution to the upkeep of mumsnet: 8

Number of days out of the last 7 when I have worked for more than 24 hours straight to resolve these problems (which were mailcious attacks on the network on which mumsnet is hosted): 2

Amount of money I've been paid by mumsnet for doing it (in pounds): 0

Number of other times that mumsnet has been unavailable for more than a few minutes in the last few YEARS due to these kind of problems: 0

[hunkerpumpkin]

ddd, there's something about the timbre of your post that I find a bit disconcerting and un-MN-like.

But since I don't (and won't) pay subs to MN, I can't really comment, can I?

[hunkerpumpkin]

PS - thank you for all your hard work

[spookylucy]

Well thats told us! Thanks for all the hard work, you dont really think about behind the scenes. Sorry

[LadyTophamHatt]

been doing it here too.




Don't worry though ddd, I have paid subs so I'm ok to bring it up!!

[tech]

Now that's told you all. Don't go biting hands that are handing out freebies and looking them in the mouth horse-style

Despite my not having noticed any problem , it seems there have been.

Anyway, as ddd said, we have enjoyed remarkably stable hosting over the last few years, and that is down to his hard work. Mumsnet wouldn't have survived without his support, so I think some cheers are in order.

Unfortunately, there are some nasty people out there who think it's fun to try bring services down by flooding them with traffic so that they can't respond to genuine requests - it sounds like this is what's been happening. If the site's not available, try again 10 minutes later. If you are worried about losing a message you've written, select it all with your mouse and copy it to your computer's clipboard (Ctrl-C on Windows, Apple-C on Mac), then you can paste it into a new message when you try again (Ctrl-V on Windows, Apple-V on mac).

In these diffficult times, we need to be showing some blitz spirit. [Adopt 40s accent] Hunker down ladies, they won't beat us with their cowardly attacks. We shall prevail.

Lossa love,
Tech

PS I did think specifying the currency of the zero was a nice touch.

[LadyTophamHatt]

Is ddd one of MNHQ then?

I feel like a naughty schoolgirl after that telling off!