DU must be on Defcon 4

[liberal N proud]

[armyowalgreens]

1. What's up with all the layout changes?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Right now,

everyone's doing what we're doing - checking out DU while listening to Countdown..............

[Parker CA]

6. Yep. DU is on pre-breakdown mode.

[Jackeens]

4. Phew, I thought it was just me - all these little Xs and all-round weirdness....afraid.

[RoccoR5955]

5. many posts = fewer graphics

This happens with very heavy traffic.

[LisaLynne]

8. When the load on the servers gets too heavy ...

due to the amount of traffic on the site, certain features are shut down to improve performance.

[Ptah]

9. Link to explanation ---->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=announcement&id=1

[SergeStorms]

11. Avatars and sig lines.....

are temporarily suspended. Looks like the Mods are expecting Armageddon. :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[janx]

3. Lots of traffic! n/t

[texanwitch]

7. This is way I didn't log out today.

Last time I couldn't get log back on.

[deminks]

10. It's only level 3. I have seen level 4. It is not a pretty site.

[BlueJazz]

13. LOL!...good pun

[Staph]

12. I haven't seen it this bad

since Election Day.