OMG, guys, you don't know how terrible that was. I'm shaking.

[Skidmore]

Where did you all go? Some of us were over in the DU panic room wondering if the world had blown up. Glad to be back.

[Gato Moteado]

1. huh? what hapened?

i'm confused.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. Someone broke DU

DU experienced a couple hours of downtime this morning due to server troubles, which have since been resolved.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Elad
DU Admin
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=announcement&id=252

[Skidmore]

14. Thanks, for that.

[Gato Moteado]

16. ah thanks......

....i just got back in from a long hike and so i only experienced about 5 minutes of the downtime.

when i heard that the original poster was still shaking from something that happened i got worried. a little downtime at DU shouldn't get people shaking....we've got the best admins in the world taking care of things. they've never let us down before, i have faith that they can handle any cyber crisis that comes our way.

[Buttercup McToots]

2. Where is the panic room?

I need to know...

[tabasco]

29. It is a yahoo group: "DU Panic Room."

I was headed over there myself when the site came back up.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. It appears it was down from 8:26 until now.

That had to be bad. I only noticed around 10 and peeked into the panic room to make sure I wasn't alone.

Cute 12 step idea btw! :hi:

[Jeanette in FL]

6. Yep, I confessed I am a DU addict

That was horrible.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. I was thrilled to know it wasn't just me.

Suffering is better in a group. :P

[lonestarnot]

4. woodamnwhoo! Back in business!

[Edweird]

5. Hey, I tried to get in the panic room

but, am I not worthy because of my low post count?

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

7. Same on this end Skidmore!

DU - a ghost town - whooda thunk it/

[Tyo]

8. I figured that the Fascists had come

Whenever there are hickups in cyberspace i assume that the Fascists are finally making their move

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. At first I thought it was just me or mischevious little elves

during the night. I'd been trying since about 8:30. Whew!!! :hi:

[helderheid]

11. c'mere

:hug:

PHEW

[ima_sinnic]

13. where is the panic room? (nt)

[helderheid]

17. here

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DUPanicRoom/

[Skidmore]

18. DUpanicroom is a Yahoo group site where people connect

when the forums are down. You have to apply for membership.

[MUAD_DIB]

22. Where does one apply for that? At DU or YH?

[Skidmore]

27. At Yahoo. See helderheid's post just above. She put the link

up there.

[MUAD_DIB]

30. Thanks. I don't post that often, but it is good to know.

[caseycoon]

15. It totally freaked me out!

It was like losing touch with the whole world...
I think I need a DU anonymous group. Now I KNOW I'm addicted!
LOL!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

28. DUI - DUing under the Influence. Great!

But, I am glad to learn about the panic room, too.

[Connonym]

19. I was feeling paranoid

that the big bad DHS had invaded in the middle of the night and taken everyone to Gitmo.

[MUAD_DIB]

20. Panic Room? Is that part of project X?

[Skidmore]

26. It was part of Project Q some time back.

[Homer Wells]

21. I was in the process of writing a response

to a particular post, when everything went out.

I kept getting this message about having logged into NOWHERE, and a tinfoil hat appeared, as if by magic, upon my quite anxious head. This wonderful place is my Lifeline; a place to get the REAL news on what the hell is going on in this cockamamie world.

Thanking the gods in charge of the INTERNET tubes for this quick resolution
:tinfoilhat: :grouphug:

[Annces]

23. We need a meeting place for when DU crashes n/t

[helderheid]

25. we have one!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DUPanicRoom/

[Annces]

35. That is funny

But I guess if DU was really down for a whole day, it would come in handy.

[JNelson6563]

24. Really?

Was DU down long?

[jasmeel]

31. I'm soooo glad this site is back. I vaguely remembered

something about a backup meeting place but couldnt recall where. I checked Dailykos and Rawstory to see if they had any info on the outage. It was awful!!

Glad we're back!!!!:party:

[TorchTheWitch]

32. wwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Woooo, that was scary! I was afraid the fascists came and took DU away.

[The Backlash Cometh]

33. I was ready to call my server and tell them that their GOP blacklisting

of DU was not acceptable ...and other things.

[wryter2000]

34. Tell me about it

:scared: :scared: :hide: :hide: :scared: :scared:

Don't DO that, DU.

[Nimrod2005]

36. Someone stole the Internets?????????/

[Skidmore]

40. Just the tubes.

[helderheid]

41. heeee

:rofl:

[Tatiana]

43. The aluminum tubes??? n/t

[wryter2000]

37. Link to join the Panic Room

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DUPanicRoom/

It was nice to find a bunch of you in my e-mail. :hi:

[matcom]

38. the lounge is still broken

x(

[shadowknows69]

39. I'll second that panic

good to hear it wasn't just me. Actually I had something veeery weird happen last night with my internet connection. For a while DU was the ONLY site I could surf to, and it worked fine. After running various scans and finding nothing I gave up and went to bed. This morning DU is down but everything else is working. Yeah, I was concerned slightly.

[BlackVelvet04]

42. I tried for over 2 hours to get on....

just made it a couple of minutes ago.