DO NOT BE ALARMED. Mumsnet is going to be offline for a few hours SATURDAY OCTOBER 11

[RowanMumsnet]

Hello everyone,

We're very sorry, but Mumsnet is going to be offline THIS COMING SATURDAY, October 11, from 6am(ish) to 2pm(ish) while Tech undertakes some essential maintenance. We're leaving our creaky old data home for a whizzy new high-tech place, and we need to move the furniture. (MNHQ itself isn't moving - we couldn't cope with that )

But! We've no intention of leaving you high and dry. If it's too early on a Saturday to think about facing real life, fear not. We've plumbed the archive and pulled together a selection of 25 of the finest threads in Mumsnet's history, and we'll be putting those on a holding page while we're offline. The long winter evenings morning will just fly by!

Very sorry for the inconvenience but we're afraid this one's unavoidable.

Strength and honour
MNHQ

A Saturday morning??

Are you insane?????

Pfft.
I'm not alarmed.
I don't care.

I'll be asleep

can we pleaseee have on the hour every hour up dates on twitter on how its all going ?

and apologies when your late booting up

Can I vote for the Isle of White ( I think) car parking thread?
And I don't care if you have already decided on the 25 best, you could always squeeze in another one if you really tried!!!!!!!

Pretty Pweese!

Brilliant, Annie!
Is that MNHQ or us though?

My vote is for the fatballs thread.

I will be out of town and away from the interwebz. Now I'm actually sad because I won't get to know what the 25 threads are!

Will someone tell me?

Oh yes, fatballs! It was truly funny

Museum of Toddler art was brilliant.

I think they've chosen a fab day as I'm at an all day event, then out for dinner. Cheers thanks Rowan

Could MNHQ add links to the 25 threads to this thread once the Tech stuff is all done, pretty please?

Saturday morning... Are you mad...?
Here I am convalescing, whatever will I do without MN.
I have no idea what Gransnet is, so I'm clearly uneducated so I guess I can have a look at that.

The only thing that will appease me is, can we please, please have the Aunty Tantrums thread as nothing, absolutely nothing makes me laugh like that one does I'm a mascot, I am

^jumps around excitedly^

25 of the finest without having to search.. Nice one MNHQ.

You're lucky I'm busy on Saturday or there would be major sulking going on in the Wadger house.

I'm always busy on a Saturday morning anyway . I might even make my Christmas cake. I'm really not bothered about MN being closed. Honestly...

Just as long as you aren't going to go changing stuff. I remember last time and the utter trauma I went through until you took pity and put in Mumsnet Classic so we could all go back to the way it was before and pretend it never happened. Please don't do it to me again .

Hi Maryz, glad to know I've got some company here in the dark ages .

So where are we all going for the duration of this upgrade?

What can we expect on our return?

I'm in classic too.

Quietbatperson if I spot them I will sound the klaxon.

What happens if it goes wrong eyes own IT dept and is never the same again?

there is no mobile site for Gransnet?

why is this?

will dadsnet be free on Saturday? could we camp over there, ask the Menz to budge over a bit?

Jammy

Cannot even consider things going wrong. After the mobile feck up, I am sure HQ and Tech wouldn't DARE do this and keep us hanging with no mn.

I hadn't thought of them changing things either but now realise that after the mobile feck up, it could be a distinct possibility.

I think I will need several buckets of snowballs prepared as I try to log back in on Saturday at precisely 14:01pm.

This is excellent news. It means I might actually get packed for going on holiday once I've read the 25 threads and arrive at the airport calm and unflustered with luggage containing the ultimate capsule wardrobe.