I was so upset in 2016 when you got hacked and thought, here we go again.
Thanks for the post!
Yikes.

I know, not your fault, totally innocent, but...day-um!

whewwwwwww

Hopefully the upgrade was to make the site more secure for tomorrow.

I ran over to twitter to see what was going on. Glad we are back up. After last time it was quite a shock.

Thank you for keeping your fingers in the dike at DU!!

Ok I was worried 😯

Maybe I should get out more.

Now I feel a little silly for panicking, but after finally starting to become a little more reassured about tomorrow's results... seeing DU down made me worry we'd be experiencing election night 2016 all over again.

Thanks so much for the explanation! What a relief!

Everyone is a little nervous right now.

So weird. I'm just super glad it wasn't a hack job and that DU isn't down for an extended time! I'm so looking forward to coming here and rejoicing with fellow Dems tomorrow.

A big THANK YOU to all the IT staff and experts who keep this site up and running.

That is, if I have any. No, I don't post often because most subjects are pretty adquately covered by those that post, but it is an Island of sanity in a sea of craziness. I spent a lot of time here reading posts and have found it to be the most informative site there is about the issues we as a people face. I remember the hacking of 2016 all too well. I felt all alone.

I was a bit nervous for about 25 minutes.

........ upgrades and other maintenance are always scheduled around the busiest possible times for traffic. The day before the election, lol!

Then I was going go to advanced settings if that didn't work, lol.

Luckily, you guys were up and running before I did any of that.

And it wasn't entirely clear that this was just a glitch, as on my web browser, the message that was on my screen was to the effect that Google wasn't entirely certain that the site was secure.

and the next I was getting this scary error message. Went over to my laptop on the desk and got the same message.

Went to facebook DU right away and connected with some others--so we knew it wasn't just our computers!

Next time could we please have a glitch like that at say, 4 am, and not on the day before a critical election?!?

Couldn't the host hold off on this until Thursday?

I was freaking the hell out. Yikes, not again.

Hosting companies are always trying to save money by cutting back on the hamster pellets. No pellets, no electric juice type stuff, and nobody uses coal-fired computers any more. There oughta be a law! Will no one think of the hamsters?

was enabled, in part, by the absence of a backup copy of the site? If that was the case, you guys now have like 9 or 10 back up copies, just in case, right?

I am probably remembering the whole traumatic event wrong. But, either way, I trust you guys have things under as much control as is humanly possible.

Thank you for all you do to keep this amazing place up and running!

We know you're (all) on it!

Didn’t even notice.