Is there some techie thing happening?

[Mabelface]

As the site is intermittently very slow and occasionally goes offline.

They're waiting for new servers to come up in the next sale.

'tis very annoying

I have to reply to this as I can't start threads. Why can't I start any threads? :(

MN towers, any info please?

@cozietoesie

They're waiting for new servers to come up in the next sale.

Erm. I'll find out what's going on.

Thank you :D

@HugAndRoll

I have to reply to this as I can't start threads. Why can't I start any threads? :(

That does sound strange
Are there specific topics where you can't start a thread?
What happens when you try?
Are you getting an error message?
Thanks

Yep bloody slow to load.....kick it again Tech!

I blame the lack of gin personally.

I can't start threads either!

I can't start threads either, have tried in behaviour & development, chat and aibu, they all say "those topic does not accept new threads" or something very similar.

@MissMarplesBloomers

Yep bloody slow to load.....kick it again Tech!

I blame the lack of gin personally.

You and me both.....
SORRY
Let me see what else is occurring...

Sorry about that not allowing new threads thing folks. It should be working now....

When you say it's slow to load is that because you can see "waiting for stats.mumsnet.com" in the bottom corner? That shouldn't matter - the page is still loaded. It requests from stats.mumsnet.com after it finishes. Or is it something else you are seeing? Ta.

TA??? TA????

Thanks tech, will give it another try in a mo.

it takes ages for the page to load and appear. it's intermittently happening and now and again gives the message that mumsnet is temporarily offline

'Tis fine here - desktop & firefox.

Yep what Madlizzy said here too.

I use Safari to browse. I get the site offline message quite a bit too and it's getting to the point that I'm getting fed up with it. Last night, the site was running so slow that I couldn't load any page but page one of any thread. I gave up!

Still happening sporadically. Any news? I use Chrome and Firefox.

Hello there

Very sorry to hear that some of you are getting frustrated with this.

If you're getting the 'Mumsnet is temporarily offline' message, the chances are that our Tech team have done a restart of the site to introduce changes, and the site is - genuinely - offline. This happens quite a lot but should only last for a couple of minutes, so if you refresh the page a few times you should find that the page loads fairly swiftly.

Slow-loading pages is another issue - occasionally it's us, but more often it's a problem at the user's end to do with dips in internet connection speeds or other problems with the user's device.

All that said, if lots of you are having the same problem then we will take a look - so if you're getting slow-loading pages, please have a look in the bottom left corner of your screens (on desktop computers) and let us know what 'waiting for' message you're getting, in case it is one of our scripts that's running slowly. It's also helpful to know what device, operating system (Windows, Apple OS etc) and browser (Safari, Chrome, IE) you're using.

Thanks

The page loading has been freezing a lot over the last week.

I frequently do a google search at the same time and it comes up before you can say MNHQ .

Ergo it is the MN servers.

Is MN hosted ?

what cumfy said. I have super dooper fibre optic broadband and I can have several other pages open which load immediately whilst mumsnet is still thinking about it.