What just happened to DU? Anyone know why things are so slow?

[KitchenWitch]

[FourScore]

1. I don't know, but it's happening to me as well

and it is maddening!!!:argh:

[orleans]

2. i was putting up videos and then linking them to a post here

it was driving me CRAZY.


it still is. i was also trying to edit a post and i couldn't do it. let's see if this edit shows up.

[Adsos Letter]

3. Homeland Security is having to deal with an especially high volume

of traffic this evening...it's slowing things down a bit; but please dont worry, we are dutifully recording everything, it's just taking us a bit longer.

Nothing to see here...go about your business...

[scarletwoman]

4. Seems to be okay now. I rebooted, thinking it was a problem w/ my own computer.

DU is acting normally now for me.

[FourScore]

5. It suddenly got better for me as well without rebooting. n/t

[BlueJazz]

6. I'm sad to report...On of the little Hamsters (Ronnie) Died this morning.

We founf him still on his "Power Generator Wheel"

But Julie (his mate) is trying to run as fast as she can...so please be patient.

[Lugnut]

7. It was screwy last night too

It seems to be sporadic but it's driving me bonkers.

[TahitiNut]

8. Seeing connection resets and slow response from here in SE Michigan.

That often indicates a host ISP problem ... in the redirects in the server farm, I'd guess. Sunday night maintenance? Dunno.

[opihimoimoi]

9. Still slow as them Pub Brains here in Honolulu.....

[krispos42]

10. It happened right as the Red Sox won

Are Boston fans clogging the tubes?

[orleans]

11. i thought it might have something to do with al's quill award

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2152925

[Quixote1818]

12. Thats when DU got slow for me too. Google is down here as well. nt

[Breeze54]

19. Just the streets in Kenmore Sq!

:P

[NutmegYankee]

24. Sudden rush of New Englanders after the game?

:shrug:

[Bitwit1234]

13. It still is, I thought it was just me...Raw Story is too so I came back here.

[Adsos Letter]

14. HEY!

...*ahem*...as I said before, Homeland Security and the NSA are dealing with an unusually elevated traffic volume as best we can; even government computers can only record just so much info quickly...sometimes things slow down...it's those "unknown unknowns which we don't know" which are at work here.

Don't be alarmed, your tax dollars are being well-utilized...everything is under control, nothing to worry about.

Just keep on posting as you normally do...

:D


EDIT: sometimes the government misspells things...no need to be alarmed...we're taking care of everything...have a beer, watch some TV...

:dunce:

[SlowDownFast]

20. Sheeyat. All them banks of liquid cooled Crays?

Where the fuck are all our taxes goin' anyhow?

[Ghost in the Machine]

15. 8000 views in 20 minutes on the post about hemp nightgowns

was at 75,000 when I started reading.. now over 83,000

[Breeze54]

16. I got knocked out too....board crashed?

:shrug:

[alittlelark]

17. There are at least 5 hard core 'candidate supporters'

who are posting about 150 a day... I've only noticed 5.


Who knows how many there are? They have signed up w/in the last month and are way over a thousand.

That's gotta have a bandwidth effect.

[janx]

18. I didn't realize that!

But you're probably right, because it's especially bad in GD Politics. ;-)

[question everything]

21. Not slow for me, but several avatars

like yours - are not showing.

[Warren DeMontague]

22. Ghosts.

:shrug:

[Hekate]

23. Possibly UFOs. Definitely gremlins, though.

:hi:

[Richard Steele]

25. DU Administration likes to schedule serious server maintenence for late Sunday nights...

...or at least that's the way it seems to me.

Things often "slow down" around here in the early Monday AM.

[SoCalDem]

26. I'm thinking that the hemp thread has a lot to do with it..

and here's what's odd... usually a "big thread" will show up on google,,but that one does not..

something "odd" is going on with that one..almost 100K views?? That's very suspicious to this old cynic :)

[Ghost in the Machine]

27. If someone is running it through a "traffic exchange" site, they could

get Skinnner in trouble with google adsense for creating false impressions on their ads.

A more innocent theory could be that someone posted it on a hemp forum, as suggested in the thread, and someone else posted it somewhere else... and someone else posted it somewhere else... and someone.. well, you get it.

It wouldn't take a hard stretch of imagination to get that many views if it were posted in a couple of Ebay forums and/or MySpace forums... MILLIONS of users just from those two...

[Silver Gaia]

28. It's over 100K views now... that's gotta be what it is.

I just checked it after I read your post and it got around 100 views just in the time it took me to reload the page twice. Weird. Someone (or maybe several someones) must have posted it on some other forums.

[NuttyFluffers]

29. server ennui

we're a rather predictable bunch. wouldn't you be tired of us and our neuroses by now?
:evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

30. LOL

Only if I got tired of myself!

:evilgrin: