Site outage update

[RebeccaMumsnet]

Hi everyone,

First and foremost: sorry for the loss of usual service over the last few hours.

To explain what's been going on: shortly after 10pm last night, we started receiving a large amount of spurious (i.e. automatic, rather than human) traffic. This is known in the trade as a denial of service attack: one in which a person, or organisation, deliberately floods a website with requests for pages, with the intention of overwhelming its servers and preventing bona fide users from accessing the site.

It goes without saying that we're doing everything we can to repel borders and keep the site up and running. We'll post on our social channels with any further updates (we're over here on Facebook and Twitter, if you don't follow us already), and in the meantime, thanks, as usual, for bearing with us.

MNHQ

Means nothing to me but pps are saying its relevant to a thread on here?

"I wonder if he's Butthurt Burke from the street harassment thread?"

I wondered that too!

Did burke say butthurt too then?

What is butthurt? It's a really weird word to type out and to read.

Aye, and stated that he thought that the site was full of misandry because that's real

I can't find the original street harassment thread, but there's a thread about it here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/a2444266-Not-all-men?msgid=56070987#prettyPhoto

Humm, he's making me rather grumpy now. But not panicking as that's exactly how he's hoping people will react. What an idiot.

Annie That thing of not having right pword (when it was) happened to me this am but it's fine now & I've stuck with my name.

You could sock puppet & try yr maple leaf version again??

Butthurt is what 12 yr old boys and their adult equivalents say people are suffering with if they suggest that respecting other people's rights might be a good idea.

Thus:

#BlackLivesMatter

SadAct: Soooo much butthurt about black lives, what about white lives? Don't they matter too????

(almost verbatim from a tweet seen earlier, but with spelling corrected)

'Butthurt' is a fairly common internet insult.

Found it www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2443082-On-the-spot-fines-for-street-harassment?

When I saw the twitter thing from dadsec in the early hours I did think of Burke, funnily enough. In between my thoughts on the best way to relieve a man of his testes etc of course.

Yes, butthurt is pretty common, it's not unique to deaddick or whatever he's called.

I've just bumped one in aibu with 900+ posts. Is that it?

Have never heard butthurt before, but others have, so maybe it's not him.

Annie I keep having to sign in again and it was telling me my password was wrong, I put it in about 5 times and managed to get in. So keep trying! Hope you haven't lost your name.

Still no joy magimedi

I'm hoping it's sorted and my posts will now come from me and be idiotic in my own personal way rather than channelling American teenage idiocy! But time will tell I guess... Butthurt sounds particularly young in style

Annie, you have you username all in lowercase...if you had any caps in it, you will need to write it exactly how it appears on your posts

Thanks different but I have tried that already. It just won't let me back in!

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Right, we really really need a sticky feature for threads like this where some bits of info need to be pinned to the top so pp can find them easily (don't worry Tech, we'll let you sort out the current invasion first )

Can someone summarise what has been going on and what we should / shouldn't be doing right now pls?

Is Mr Hacker in bed? if so maybe he is a US teenager rather than a UK one?

Annie can mumsnet admin get you back in? Surely they should be able to give you another password to reactivate your account?

So do we think little Mr hacker just got hold of the edit function/ admin level access rather than specific user accounts?

I am hoping they can Miscellaneous. Although I must admit, this username is growing on me.