What the hell just happened? Was it just my machine?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

I went to open a thread and a firefox box popped up and wanted me to open "a php file" with my website editing software...

I tried IE and the page would load blank.

tried several times and finally rebooted. Odd.

Anyone else out there have any problems in the last five minutes?

Thanks!

[msmcghee]

1. Yeah. DU was down. n/t

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. That was asome strange things this time... I could access messages

that had been posted within the last minute or two but couldn't use functions at the top of the page...

But it wanted Dreamweaver to edit the damn thing.

[Fredda Weinberg]

2. DU hiccuped n/t

[dogman]

3. Yes

Spellcheck wouldn't clear and post went to blank page on firefox. Don't use IE on my mac.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. I don't use IE either... Firefox person here.

Odd burp!

[spanone]

5. I just got this...Error 502 'www.democrati...' Bad Gateway

[Raffi Ella]

12. me too

It happens everytime I click on something.I keep having to refresh.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

22. Got that, too

Glad it wasn't just me. Thanks

[Solly Mack]

7. DU went bye-bye for a few

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. What's odd is it didn't affect everyone... If you look at the message time

you won't see an interruption at all.

[Solly Mack]

9. Hadn't noticed...dang...that is odd

[tuvor]

10. My DU went out. Weren't there supposed to be downtime periods today?

[Jeanette in FL]

11. Same here

And now the group discussion categories all look different. I don't know what happened.

[tuvor]

14. I can help you with the second "problem"...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1969706

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Using Safari, it wasn't working for me, either.

[Sinti]

15. No cause for alarm.

They're just fooling with the code and maybe the servers, trying to make DU better for ya I figure.

[Mnemosyne]

16. All I could get was white screen. Weird.

:shrug:

[graywarrior]

17. Maintenance. They're fixing stuff.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

18. But... but... I like to be paranoid?

JK... :)

[bbernardini]

19. It wasn't just DU...

I couldn't access several other sites during the downtime for DU.

[graywarrior]

20. It's a conspiracy.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

21. You're right...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1970652

There's Muthahfucking Aliens on the muthahfucking internets!!!!!!

[Mabus]

23. Whew

I was beginning to wonder if it was just me. I ran over to my neighbor's house for an afternoon beer and when I came back DU was inaccessible. When I finally got DU to appear people had been posting during the time when I couldn't sign on.