Hands up those of you who had withdrawal symptoms from not being able to get onto the forums? Perhaps it was just my computers, or rather internet providers, but I have been unable to get onto the forums since last night and have only just managed it. What did you end up doing instead?

Watched the Grand Prix, then a pub dinner with friends.

Which is what I had planned in any case.

I couldn't either...I had a lovely jaunt to a country pub and got hooked on tetris.

*puts hands up* I couldnt get on either. Last night, didnt know it had gone cos I spent the night talking to friends on MSN, this morning.... helped my sister bake a cake, and not a lot else...

Pressing F5 like a mad-man!

Why didnt you just put a paperweight/cup/the cat on the F5 key??

Umm... took kids out for a meal. It was fun... maybe the forums should go down more often!!!

I was quite put out! Finally watched "Northanger Abbey" which we'd had recorded since March and never got round to watching, then went to bed early.

Only just come on today, so didn't know when they had come back.

I went to practise (and watched the F1 race)

I've had to leave the Favourite Recording PM lines open for another day (they could've crashed any time but last night ).

Car Expert

I can't believe how much work I've got done this morning...better procrastinate this afternoon or my boss'll start expecting me to do more

Definately missed them. When you're stuck in a hospital bed, you really miss the comeradery. I felt very lonely.

I noticed briefly that I couldn't access the fora but put it down to my dodgy network denying me internet access again and played go instead.

I'm obviously more addicted than most! I did the f5 thing for a bit, then went on MSN and moaned about the forums being down, then went downstairs and moaned about the forums being down. Then I watched five episodes of QI in a go all the while thinking "this would be better if the forums weren't down".

All of this was AFTER I'd spent my time trying to fix my internet, just in case it was a problem on my end (though I sort of knew it wasn't due to the fact that every other site was working.)

It was horrible.

a) I dont have a paperweight.
b) The cup was being drunk from.
c) Unco-operative feline.

I didn't realise they were down!! I was away until last night, then busy this morning. They were up and running when I logged on! No doubt I would have gone into panic mode thinking it was my fault again!!!!

I was very annoyed - I went to bed early. Then this morning I tryed to cook, succeeded in melting a plastic tray that had been left in the oven... Now waiting for Mom to get home...

Sorry to learn you are in hospital, Jod. I hope you feel better soon.

I did some theory and piano practice *halo*

But definitely missed the forums

*My name is LT and I am a forumolic *

Last night I didn't realise - too busy catching up with SCD

This morning, logged on to quicjly check them and realised they were down, just got sidetracked by myspace instead

More put out about the fact that my school's intranet is down so I can't access my email or any of my files on the school network

I couldn't get on....

I do believe that the internet had assumed the shape of a non-spherical fruit.

I thought it was our computer until someone else mentioned that they couldn't get on either

Glad it's all working again now.

What?

I should imagine Phil means it's all gone pear shaped!!!

*Or possibly a banana*

yes - I was trying to decide which !

Yeah, I couldn't get on either....odd!
And my Dumbledore thread has gone - any ideas why?

I imagine the mods removed it... there was an argument about homophobia. For my part I apologise for contributing to it and causing the thread to be taken down.

I thought that thread was the reason for the forums disappearing.

I did wonder. But then I also wondered if someone used the thread to stitch up a jumper.

I replied to that thread literally as the forums went down... Then spent the evening wondering if other people were continuing the debate!

I was wondering that too, though I'd already decided not to contribute anymore, and I was also wondering if it had been the cause of the problem... (I thought I might have been banned for arguing or something, and so I couldn't get on to the forums...)

Was that argument at fault?

I doubt it - remember the Mods arn't usually around on weekends. Even if you were banned they wouldn't be able to stop you viewing the forums... I think that argument was a little over-heated - we had two views that were about as far apart as is possible

I'm very sensitive about it as well - due to the fact that someone saying very similar things really upset a friend of mine who happens to be gay not so long ago. Not that that invalidates my opinion. Well it's gone now, and hopefully won't crop up again.

I hear something in the mexican gulf...

I apologize for the thread...
Sorry for any arguments!
I didn't even get to read any!

It wasn't your fault, don't worry.

At first, i thought it must have been my internet that was dodgy, until the withdrawal/temptation became so large that i got my non-musical friend to check if the website was working. I can't actually really remember what i did instead, although i'm pretty sure it included recorder in some way or other, and probably watching rubbish on late night tv too.

As for the Dumbledore thread, it was getting a bit nasty and personal in there and seems like a bit too big of a coincidence that it coinincided with a complete failure/shutdown of the forums. I haven't been on the forums that long so wouldn't know if this has happened before, but it seems logical that, if none of the rules are being broken, but its still getting heated, the mods might do something to reprimand people to encourage to to behave badly.

Hmm, what a load of rambling....sorry...

Assumed I had done something daft with my computer. Tried other internet pages and when they worked just gave up the forums and wrote overdue emails to friends. Missed the Dumbledore buisiness completely.

Heated arguments have happened lots of times while I've been here, and in my experience, the mods lock the thread, then delete it. It's never caused anything of this magnitude to the best of my knowledge.

Maybe we're in for another great crash, in which all our posts become disassociated from us!

I could get on last night, and I was rather trifled because I'd spent ages typing something out in Viva Organ, and wanted replies! In the event, I need not have worried, because even though all is now well, only two people have been kind enough to reply anyway

The whole abrsm site failed, so either the server crashed or someone went and pulled the wrong plug out or dug up the road.