Just came back to see your post.

Yeah, I had it too.

Is today your birthday, niyad?

So I’ll send my birthday wishes again as I was late to the party! 🎉 Don’t know about you, but these days I celebrate all week! Wishing you a healthy and happy birthday on your special day 🫶

on various schedules, and the fact that Beltaine is in two days, and several friends also have birthdays right around mine. Any reason to celebrate works for me.

And I almost firgot, DU'er Capt. America also has a birthday today.

We’d dress up and have a fun time at recess and wrap colorful ribbons around a post..probably the tetherball post. I’m thinking that’s the closest I’ve been to celebrating Spring and/or festivities like Beltaine…I just looked it up and once again, I’ve learned something new, even tho I’ve barely touched the subject. So, as with your birthday, I wish you the joy that all the rituals and traditions you celebrate bring you this time of year 🌾

if your teachers had known what those Maypole dances represent. . .

Learning about the Wheel of the Year, and what each of the celebrations means is endlessly fascinating. This is one of the many blessings of DU. . .there is always somethi g bew to learn, in almost any field imaginable.

We had an outage here or a freeze up that stated it was a 504 Gateway error. I cannot recall ever seeing such a page before. It did eventually clear up and access was restored. It did seem to be only on DU. Our outage was around 3:00 Central, I believe.

Very unusual

Only lasted a few minutes though. Seems to be ok now.

Also moving a little slow

Currently the diagnosis is "network gremlins" but we're looking into it... I have a ticket open with DU's service provider so we'll see if they can give us any more details.

Very much!

flashbacks to 2016.

But if we all are getting shut down..hmmmm

...I thought it might be my own internet or device but other sites I tried worked fine.

And a few minutes ago there some short delay in switching threads.

I don't know how long it was before I could connect to DU, but I am pretty sure it was at least 17 minutes.

Sure did.

My area doesn't have the best internet. There have been some solar flares, but nothing major, only reaching M1-M3 range (moderate), but usually it affects the shortwave frequencies (30 MHz or below).

I thought it was my tablet or my internet connection. I tried to trouble shoot it but with my limited tech know-how I couldn't figure it out. I'm glad it wasn't just me. It was longer than 17 minutes.

Apparently, DU has atracted attention again.

Good work, all.

First about 1:00 this afternoon.
Second a little after 7. I had just clicked on this to say yes and got locked up. The second didn't seem to last as long.

Seems okay now

then a neighbor came over and I closed my laptop.. good. I don't need that stress.

Tried to get in to no avail earlier.

Thanks for bringing it up.

I've had several time-outs this morning. Each time Cloudflare said it was DU at fault. Thanks for posting this. I've been doing things, so haven't been at the computer the whole time.

I've just read the thread, so on edit: HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Back in the day, DU had a panic room for when the site went down or was as attached. Maybe it was a Yahoo chat room? I can’t remember. Would have been nice to have that lifeline tonight!