When it said site closed yesterday i thought it was all for not
Originally Posted by Eyeholeman
actually i saw that and knew it was a good sign, not just because the site had said they were relaunching this weekend, but because it meant the login database needed to be sequestered (stopped) before they could relaunch the site. being an IT geek, i know you can't restart a database with users signed in. for the last few weeks, once they got the basic bulletin board software back online, you could login. of course all you'd get is the same page but anyone could login once they got back online in a basic fashion.
so i knew they were preparing to restart the full .. well some .. of the site back online. i happened to be working late doing server upgrades so i kept checking the webpage and after a few hours of that message posted, it restarted.