Expect high traffic on DU this Tuesday, March 4. Make sure you don't get blocked out!

[Skinner]

There is a good chance that Tuesday, March 4, will be our busiest day of this primary season. If so, it is likely that we will have to turn off some website features in order to make sure that our site can handle the large spike in traffic. We are committed to doing whatever we can to avoid slow performance or overly long response times, while making the site available to as many visitors as possible.

If the spike in traffic is much larger than we expect, it is possible (but unlikely) that we may have to take drastic measures to keep our site online. As a very last resort, we may be forced to block access so unregistered visitors cannot read Democratic Underground. If you are registered and logged in to Democratic Underground, you will still be able to read and post.

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Thank you!

Skinner
DU Admin

Please kick and recommend this thread so more DUers can see it. Thanks!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Kudos and thanks

for your hard work! And thanks to all the mods as well.

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[stellanoir]

3. "No we can't"

Kidding & thanks

[BeHereNow]

4. You take such good care of us Skinner.

Thanks.
BHN

[MethuenProgressive]

5. k, r, and at least go for a high opening bid

when you end up selling us on eBay :D
:kick:

[corkhead]

6. thank you for your weather forecast. Hopefully the sun will come out on Wednesday

[rateyes]

7. Now, Skinner,

what would make you think that Wednesday will be busy? :evilgrin:

[rateyes]

8. dupe

[Rex]

9. Why what happens on Tuesday?

:hide:

Edit - I expect there to be a lot of high traffic on, well, actually everyday. :smoke:

[asthmaticeog]

10. "Remember how your username is spelled"

I'm surprised more DUers don't have trouble with that, actually.

*ducks thrown objects*

[Skinner]

12. People have a real problem remembering spaces, underscores, and hyphens.

:shrug:

[TahitiNut]

20. Thanks, S-kinner

:evilgrin:

[Staph]

11. Kicked and recommended!

Oh baronial boss of the bits and bytes! Oh proud personage of the pixels! Oh dignified director of the data stream!

How else may we serve you?

[NMDemDist2]

13. suck up

:rofl:


:hi:

keed, I keed you

[Staph]

18. I beg your pardon.

I resemble that remark!


:silly:

[satya]

14. k&r. nt

[Thurston Howell III]

15. K&R.

Is anyone going to blog or post from the primary/caucus sites?

[lonestarnot]

16. Mods man your battle stations!

[Earth_First]

17. Is the Pope coming to DU on Tuesday?

What's going on here on Tuesday?

[Lil Missy]

21. Texas and Ohio Primaries. n/t

[RainDog]

19. would it help if we all turned off avatars and sigs? n/t

[orleans]

24. i think it really helped when you turned off your avatar & sig line.

that should do it. thanks!
:D

[RainDog]

26. uh

:spank:

[orleans]

27. ! ow !

:P

[RainDog]

30. I should have that avatar: this space kept intentionally blank... :/

but I dinnit. oh, and I didn't have a sig line. so there. hmph.

[simmonsj811]

22. k&r

kick

[orleans]

23. k&r. thanks skinner. you guys are so good. n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

25. Username: Stinky ...... Password: Stinky ........ Attitude: Stinky

Attitude toward DU: The Cat's Meow!

[Voice for Peace]

28. thanks!

[The Straight Story]

29. Just shut down gdp for the day ;)

Problem solved :rofl:

[Hekate]

31. Kick

:hi:

[2008]

32. k&r