Again at Defcon 2? What the hell is happening?

is it just server problems, or is there some really big news with chimpy's dancing career or some such thing?

I pulled up the defcon 2 information for those like me who wonder sometimes what all is not available:
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Some forum features are currently unavailable (Level 2) (May 02nd 2007)

You may have noticed that some features of Democratic Underground are currently not working. This is intentional and a result of the website experiencing an unusually high level of traffic currently.

Democratic Underground has dozens of features that we've programmed into our software over the years that, while important, are considered extras because they are not required for DU to run smoothly. We are very proud of all these extra features we provide to our members, but when our servers get backed up with heavy traffic we have to make difficult decisions and progressively turn off certain extra features to reduce the stress on our servers. The alternative is a DU that is very difficult at best to navigate due to overwhelmed servers slowing everything down.

These features will only remain turned off temporarily until our traffic dies back down to a normal level. Currently, we are on Level 2. The features that are turned off at Level 2 are the following:

* Advanced search
* Hide thread feature
* Signature lines
* Avatars
* RSS/XML feed for Latest Breaking News
* Forum hiding on the Latest page
* Expanded threads mode
* Ignoring new threads by author

Again, we apologize for having to do this, but it is necessary and much better than the alternative.

Thank you for your understanding and patience,
The DU Administrators

Have patience.

we all need some kind of release!

:rofl:

at least the smilies are still here

we're either at level 1 or 2...I miss my sig!!! :cry:


*pouts*

:( i recognize people by their avvies

*sniffle* I can barely remember what it was...and I had recently changed it too! *sigh*

but it was very late too

:shrug:

i guess sig lines are becoming nocturnal creatures only out when most are gone to bed?

I've hardly been on lately...and I gotta get up early for work....or else I would stay up late on DU... oh well...

and stay up late and get up early :crazy:

:hi:

I just don't have my computer on late at night or early in the morning. Me in the morning: Ug. Need coffeeeeeeeeeeeee. When can I go back to bed? lol

I wish I had time to go online in the morning (outside of while stuck at work).


:hi:

Are there that many people on here at 8AM?
Are we so popular recently or what? I remember when only major events would toss us to level one, except for the election during which only donors could comment.

that's what i've wondered too

i mean i know that there was a server crash or something last week where i couldn't get on du for hours :cry: i thought i was going to go crazy, thank gawdess for the panic room on yahoo, and myspace where i talked to other du'ers who were in withdrawals as well.

:shrug:

Where is it? :shrug:

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

join it now because it is screened and you can't instantly post without being there a while?

Thanks for the link SPK! :)

ever since...there have been no sig lines!!

Maybe I should leave again....I must be that one too many!!

surely there's someone else that will volunteer to go if need be!

:rofl: