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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:00 AM
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What just happened to DU? Anyone know why things are so slow?
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FourScore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:07 AM
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1. I don't know, but it's happening to me as well
and it is maddening!!!:argh:
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:11 AM
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2. i was putting up videos and then linking them to a post here
Edited on Mon Oct-29-07 12:12 AM by orleans
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.
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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:11 AM
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3. Homeland Security is having to deal with an especially high volume
Edited on Mon Oct-29-07 12:13 AM by adsosletter
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...
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scarletwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:13 AM
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4. Seems to be okay now. I rebooted, thinking it was a problem w/ my own computer.
DU is acting normally now for me.
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FourScore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:16 AM
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5. It suddenly got better for me as well without rebooting. n/t
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:17 AM
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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.

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Lugnut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:17 AM
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7. It was screwy last night too
It seems to be sporadic but it's driving me bonkers.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:19 AM
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8. Seeing connection resets and slow response from here in SE Michigan.
Edited on Mon Oct-29-07 12:20 AM by TahitiNut
That often indicates a host ISP problem ... in the redirects in the server farm, I'd guess. Sunday night maintenance? Dunno.

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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:22 AM
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9. Still slow as them Pub Brains here in Honolulu.....
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:25 AM
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10. It happened right as the Red Sox won
Are Boston fans clogging the tubes?
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:28 AM
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11. i thought it might have something to do with al's quill award
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:29 AM
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12. Thats when DU got slow for me too. Google is down here as well. nt
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:46 AM
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19. Just the streets in Kenmore Sq!
:P

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NutmegYankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 02:18 AM
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24. Sudden rush of New Englanders after the game?
:shrug:
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:29 AM
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13. It still is, I thought it was just me...Raw Story is too so I came back here.
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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:30 AM
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14. HEY!
Edited on Mon Oct-29-07 12:32 AM by adsosletter
...*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:
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SlowDownFast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 01:04 AM
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20. Sheeyat. All them banks of liquid cooled Crays?
Where the fuck are all our taxes goin' anyhow?
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:34 AM
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15. 8000 views in 20 minutes on the post about hemp nightgowns
was at 75,000 when I started reading.. now over 83,000
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:35 AM
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16. I got knocked out too....board crashed?
:shrug:

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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:42 AM
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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.
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:45 AM
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18. I didn't realize that!
But you're probably right, because it's especially bad in GD Politics. ;-)
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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 01:53 AM
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21. Not slow for me, but several avatars
like yours - are not showing.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 01:56 AM
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22. Ghosts.
:shrug:
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 02:16 AM
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23. Possibly UFOs. Definitely gremlins, though.
:hi:
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 03:45 AM
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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.

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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 04:07 AM
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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 :)
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 04:18 AM
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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...
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Silver Gaia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 04:50 AM
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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.
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NuttyFluffers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 05:45 AM
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29. server ennui
we're a rather predictable bunch. wouldn't you be tired of us and our neuroses by now?
:evilgrin:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 09:58 AM
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30. LOL
Only if I got tired of myself!

:evilgrin:
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