What the hell is going on here???

[SmileyBoy]

I see the top menu is messed up, and there are no avatars. Also, the speed here is REALLY slow now. What gives???

[WillParkinson]

1. Oh, good...

It's not just me.

[Cha]

2. I just asked the same thing in "ask the admins"....and

before that I was locked out of DU forums via the "not connecting to database".

[trof]

3. for about 10 minutes now

Lost du entirely before that.
weird
hacked?

[qanda]

4. There's a thread about in GD, but

Apparently Rush mentioned DU on his radio show today and now the FReeps are trying to overload the server.

Link to discussion at FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/997460/posts

Edit:

Link to General Discussion thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=496236

[RebelOne]

5. Go to General Discussion

See Rush post.

[EarlG]

6. We're doing what we can to improve performance

You're going to see wome weird things happening while we try stuff out.

Avatars will be off for the rest of the day probably.

Thanks,
EG

[underpants]

10. YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You SO rock. Should I start a thread on how much you guys ROCK?!?!?!

[Cha]

12. YES!

:kick:

[Cha]

11. Thanks EarlG....Good to know! And the sig lines, too?

:yourock: :toast: :kick:

[EarlG]

17. Sig lines are also off at the moment

I'm sure normal service will be resumed shortly.

I would also like to thank Rush Limbaugh for introducing Democratic Underground to several million new people. Excellent work!

[_NorCal_D_]

18. Thank you.

:yourock:

:)

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. Thanks, EarlG

This must really be frustrating for admin.

[elcondor]

7. Somethings going down in Freepertown:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/997460/posts

They say Rush is overloading the server.

[dweller]

8. rush read a du post

from last nite on air and the freepers are claiming the server crashed here due to overload of rushbots coming to the site?
just reading the posts over there is toxic...

dp

[Cha]

13. Take a Hot Shower!

:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. Which post? n/t

[Bluzmann57]

9. "Somethings going down in freepertown"

You mean their self esteem? Their I.Q. level? I say we fight fire with fire. We need some of our people to go in there and confuse them with facts.

[Cha]

14. Lol! Some our tough "people"!

[underpants]

16. Oooh there's a frightening image

:bounce:

[BiggJawn]

15. Lovely....FReeper DOS....

Geez, you dumbasses would jump off a cliff if Jeff Christie told you to, wouldn't you?

"Blut und Rush", right?