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

I am rather I trifled by his follower with the locked profile, just spent a good few minutes comparing the neck and head ofthat follower and the chicken mask pic... I am sad to hear the chicken mask is a generic photo!

Well I didn't take long to find a pic of someone wearing sudocreme and red lipstick.

And I'm crap on the inter web!

@ ethical hacking

Well, his profile pic looks like he's face palmed a plate of flour. Then a 4 yr old had put lippy on him

Then the new pic is a chip shop burger box

The excitement and hilarity of hacking Mumsnet must now be shadowed by the dismay that no one cared and found it funny

And, instead of quaking in our vair stylishboots, we're ripping the piss out of poor Jeffrey.

Damn it, strike out fail!

Um, Jeffrey, if you go on a grammar correcting spree please sort it out.

Arf at "ethical hacking". That made me chuckle

That picture of him and his only two mates in the world playing dressing up games is absolutely hilarious.

If I'd hacked MN with ability to edit posts if have laid low for a while. Then hilariously changed the posts of people
Tsk Jeffrey

FlyingPirate, ethical hacking is a real thing :) Our young friend Jeffrey may even believe that's what he was doing, although it seems to have been more to do with our man-hating feminazi agenda. You would think, though, we would have a more militant anti-sausage stance in that case but time will tell.

but how many days did the chicken that came in the packaging now being used for a cheapo Guy Fawkes mask last Jeffrey and his mum?

Shall we lure him back with posts full of bad grammar and spelling?

They got five meals from it, plus soup, plus a freezer full of home made stock, plus eight bags of chicken scented air for that "just cooked a Sunday dinner" aroma whenever you want it. Finally - once every atom of meat, sinew, and scent was leeched from its carcass - the bones were used to build a yurt for a family of sparrows.

tribpot Thanks for the link, makes perfect sense. Every day is a school day

Anyone else thinking he's a pissed off ex husband?

His profile picture is from American Horror Story isn't it?

I can assure you that gender was not a motive for this attack - not everything is about the patriarchy.

We are doing this because we find it entertaining.

Entertaining? Really? You need to get out more.

Waahaahaa

I think overwhelmingly we are finding it the most amusing.

'We', you know that tantalising pronoun.

Yep, definitely need to get out more.

Swat off Jeffrey

Jeffrey - I assume I may address you as Jeffrey - the reason for my assumption was because one of your friends/alter egos on Twitter congratulated you on that basis this morning.

Some of our actual radical feminists may pop along shortly to explain why actually everything is about the patriarchy! Even saveloys.

Especially saveloys

Is 'we' like Smeagle and Gollum?

We're flattered, but it wasn't that entertaining now, was it?

You didn't really do anything. But I'm sure it took a lot of work.