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

Seriously though, pineapple fritter? An actual pineapple ring fried in chip fat? If i take anything away from today, it's about the dark side of the chippy.
(But Jeffrey, you woz like well scary innit, just dat I find sweet stuff done savoury well fretning)

'Twas me that called ;)

@ CalmDownJeffrey. Awesome name!

Did anyone else imagine a Laurel and Hardy type sketch with the hacker dressed in a stripy jumper and mask being chased all round the site by MNHQ headed up by HelenMumsnet.
I don't think it was the image the hacker wanted to create.

Ta da!! The maple leaf has returned. Thank you MNHQ!

As far as I recall from German lessons, a wiener is actually a diminutive little thing, originating in Vienna, Austria - a sort of cocktail sausage if you like.

This was taught to us in all sobriety. We were all 13 year old girls and I don't think anyone even giggled.

Now if you want to get into Bockwurst, Bratwurst and Currywurst I'm afraid you've lost me.

All of a sudden I want sausages for dinner. Odd that.

I had a battered sausage with mushy peas from the chippy for dinner.

Was lush.

I got butthurt once. I don't want to talk about it.

Hmm. Have just googled them all. Wiener comes up as a hot dog.

Mmm, mushy peas.

Silver I just laughed out loud at that. I was thinking much the same today but didn't mention it.

Yum, battered sausage. Jumbo of course!

I have sent Jeffrey to bed with a soothing mug of Horlicks and popped the electric blanket on for him.

He has terrible timing, not only did his mumsnet outage happen at a time that inconvenienced the least amount of people, he corrected my typo whilst I was at lunch so I couldn't even join in with the ensuing humorous comments

:( headline: hacker makes lone mumsnetter pout

Sad faces all around

Naughty Jeffrey. Have a saveloy

and popped the electric blanket on for him.

Where are you? Antarctica?

Warming the weiner?

(Mental image, sorry!)

It's more too prevent any excretion of bodily fluids. I find it a very effective deterrent.

to* oh the shame

He kept saying 'we' and 'our attacks' though didn't he, like he had a mate or something helping him out. I think he thought we were imagining some vast army of sad losers disconsolate F4J types with (incongruously) stunning internet skills, about to derail life as we knew it.

Just him and his chum then?

His chum? As in his teeny tiny tingly peen?