Site Down Anxiety

[Crow]

This is lighthearted but I had such an anxiety attack last night when I couldn't get to the forum last night. I tried on three devices and four different browsers. LOL even today after I read it was under maintenance, every time I get the error page alarm bells go off. I didn't realize how important this community has become to me.

 

[Astrid_Shadow]

I was the same.. I was going crazy. I'm glad the site is back

 

[Fadeaway]

Yup, I am totally dependent on this site. Bad things happen when the site is down, like me spending hours last night trying to teach myself written Japanese. Seriously, you know you need the support of a mental health forum when you start doing that.

 

[sun seeker]

Yeah, me too.

 

[Nikie]

Ditto!!

 

[Neverthesame]

I know, I got way too much work done today. This is going to raise the bar for me.
:arghh; Nooooooo!
In this company, productivity is for suckers.

Good to see you all again. :tup:

 

[JEKBreatheandBelieve]

I had the same reaction!

 

[AnnaLost]

Same. Felt weird and ungrounded lol

 

[Deleted member 20978]

I assumed the CIA were involved. Welcome back, site!

 

[lostforgottensoul]

This is lighthearted but I had such an anxiety attack last night when I couldn't get to the forum la...

I did the same thing, was checking every 5 mins cuz i wanted to write a post and am always on my phone on this site, checked from the desktop, from my stepmom's phone and then started to think "omg, i did something wrong and they blocked my ip" as u googled a help email (didnt know yet it was site maintance, thought it was a down site) and came accoss a post on a blog that had said her ip was blocked from this site, not even thinking if i was blocked it would be my account blocked, and that just increased my anxiety. By this time i was almost in tears trying to think what i did. Then i got in my internet tech support brain (what i do for a living) i tried from both phone's cell provider's internet then turned off both phones and the desktop, turned off my internet modem leaving off for a bit to try to ensure a more likely different WAN ip then when booted up then turned both phones back on in different order to get different LAN ips in each device and tried again. All before even thinking to go to the darn facebook page!

I dont have the facebook page liked as i DONT want my family, whom has googled my known username to find sites i go on and they would either lurk and take what i say off the site and cause drama or join (has done before) and cause trouble here. Though ive stayed as annoymous as i can, never using anyone's name including myself and though state im from the east coast of the US, ive never stated the State i live in or any other States i have lived in but still, anyone reading my intro and/or posts in my family would know its me...

Guess i'll know nexr time to go look on the facebook page lol. I never got to post what i wanted to as it was almost 4am EST when i found out it was a site issue and i just went to bed and what i wanted to post wasnt there today... Sites go down for maintance all the time, i do site maintance, i guess its just that i have horrible thoughts of "omg i did something wrong"

This made me think of something, not sure if it could fit in a forum but @anthony, you ever thought of starting an app for mobile devices? Seems all companies are going that way. Again, not sure how it would or could fit in the forum as when i managed a fourm it was long before smart phones ever came out, it was actually in the days of dial up being "fast" and DSL just starting to make an apperance but i found myself searching in google play and saying to myself "it would be cool to have an app". I know how to build progams but never tried to build an APK and not sure how different or difficult it is but was just something that i thought about.

 

[Neverthesame]

@lostforgottensoul I remember a few years ago when I joined this site. It used to be Tapatalk friendly.

Then it was (forgive me, I don't know the correct word) rendered incompatible?

I know Anthony explained why, but I can't remember now, what the reason was.

I did get lucky with regards to this downtime. I was on the pc, doing what everyone else was. Trying everything with internet hoping for something other than Error, error. Lol. When for some reason, I was redirected to a blog post from Joeylittle, explaining what was going on.

Mind you, it didn't stop me trying to connect every 5 minutes anyways.

Aaaaand. I just missed my ashtray.... *sigh* :grumpy:

If you will all excuse me, I have a burn mark to get off a table... :sour:

 

[desiderata310]

Kept showing up as a site about dogs. Bizarre.And yes I was very restless and anxious.