What happend yesterday??

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was wondering!

Me too. I was having withdrawal symptoms - I haven't been here for over 24 hours!

You should have come onto the recordings website...we had a chat there

Grr. That was the one place I didn't think to look.

I thought it was my ISP or something... glad to see it back up again ! I missed it !!!

No it was everyone's, I wonder what happend.

I didn't realise how addicted I'd become to the forums until yesterday, when I tried a few times to get here and couldn't. Had to go and practise instead

Recovering from the withdrawal symptoms now, and glad that we're back!

Cheers

Katyjay

I wouldn't have thought it was planned maintenance since we may well have got a warning in advance.. plus the main ABRSM site was down too and I doubt they would intentionally do that...

Hooray!!!

Well I got loadsof coursework and homework done since there were no forums to distract me!

A whole day? That was severe moderation with a vengeance!!!

Me too - I was lost without my daily contact!!! (Well not quite, but it was really weird!)

Same here! I was so frustrated!

It felt so strange - just like when I was a little boy, all my friends had gone away and there was nobody to play with.

I sometimes direct colleagues to interesting threads on these forums, always with the warning that it is best not to start contributing because it is addictive.

We need a new society - Forums Anonymous

This is Forums Anonymous. Well, sort-of......

But its not really helping our 'addiction' is it? LOL...doing coursework was so much quicker yesterday with no abrsm...had a chat on msn with people though...and i'm on here during break at school, had to see if this was working!! So what happened anyway/

I'm glad it wasn't just me, too.

what's this "recordings website"? I think I would have liked to go there just to hear other people saying "what's happened to the forums"!

I thought it was my computor not working. I'm going to have to grovel on the floor and ask for forgivness because I called it stupid (the computor) and stubborn and other things I won't repeat. I even whacked the top of the moniter to see if it would help. It didn't.

The recordings website was set up as somewhere to put recordings of ourselves playing so other people can listen and leave comments. The site address is in my signature, or - repeated here for your convenience:

http://81.174.243.192:8080/

Submission instructions are at the bottom of the page .

Thanks YAP! I think I remember this being mentioned before, but I'd forgotten how to find it. I'll go and check it out again!

If you bookmark it now then you'll never forget .

how do you bookmark it? I could add it to "my favourites" but is there some other in house way?

edit - problem solved, I think! I've pasted the web address into the little notepad at the bottom of "my controls". Now I can cut and paste it into the address bar and that will get me there! I've had a look at the chat last night - that was just what I needed but if you don't know where you're looking it's like looking for a needle in a haystack!

Sorry for the confusion I meant add it to your favourites. I use the term bookmark because I don't use Internet Explorer; besides the term favourite implies one likes the site, one could easily need to bookmark a site one doesn't like (for example sites for bill payments) .

P.S. if the forum goes down again (unlikely but if that's what you want the link for) you won't be able to get to the link in my controls. If you don't want to add it to your favourites, I find emailing something to myself is a good way to ensure I have a record of it .

I am sooooooo stupid! I was sitting there smugly looking at the snippet in "my controls" thinking "I won't have to go trawling through the forums looking for that, next time".

The only thing is the music folder in "my favourites" looks a bit like a university scarf already. However one more link won't make much difference. Thanks for the tips AP!

Yep, you said it katyjay...

it was strange!

glad it's back...

Yes, I was getting rather frantic, although I had been out the whole day....but then to top it all, the morning my internet wouldn't work!!

YES!!!! I was also worried!!!!! pity I didn't thought about going to the website of the recordings...

I didn't know I was so addicted to checking posts until yesterday....I sneeked on this morning during ICT to see whether they were back on online.

lol... I wasn't frantic or worried so I guess I'm not TOO badly addicted, but I was really annoyed!

So was I!

Car Expert

I was quite curious and annoyed as well! Thought it was my computer!

Same here!

Car Expert

*hits self over head again!* At what point yesterday did the 'Come in Sit Down' bit get put up? I checked the recordings bit a few times and it wasnt there!!

I thought it was me! I'm not very computer literate!

Is anyone from the board going to tell us why it happened?

Yes, it would be quite nice to know!

I agree.

Car Expert

I thought it was my computer being silly so i was annoyed! Glad we are all back now though!

I had nothing to do!! well I did, I went trampolining and walked back coz buses are feckless on sundays and then went for a run, but apart from that! I went and harrassed my friend instead!

I think it was probably just a server problem or failure or something, as the main site was down as well.

Its really weird..we have broadband and sometimes the internet connection goes weird and the green light doesnt flash. When i first found out abrsm wasnt working yesterday, it turned out our whole internet connection was bust anyway!

The thing that confused me was that 1st thing in the morning I didn't seem to be able to get to any internet sites although I collected email OK from the ISP server. Then the rest of the internet came back but the forums didn't.

Same mine wasn't working either, I thought we had a dodgy connection until CPPF texted me... hmm...what happened?

Only was forums was down for me. Other sites like yahoo were fine. I still like your cat signature (which I thought was Pikachu at first! ) a lot, Louise! I never get tired of looking at it.

A few other forums were down for me yesterday as well.

Oh yes, what are they? (Nearly forgot to ask!)

Car Expert

TSR!!

It was terrible! We couldn't carry on with the turkey dinosaur thread!!!