# 8/31 SDMB downtime question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-31-sdmb-downtime-question/594663>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [August 30, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-31-sdmb-downtime-question/594663 "2011-08-30T19:34:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-31-sdmb-downtime-question/594663/21 "2011-09-03T00:10:59Z")

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The Dope, as addictive as it is for me, was down for me until just now. I hate it when that happens!

🙂

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-31-sdmb-downtime-question/594663/22 "2011-09-03T00:37:54Z")

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> [@Darth\_Panda](#):
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> Why can’t it be both?

Who says it can’t? 😉

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**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-31-sdmb-downtime-question/594663/23 "2011-09-05T04:23:58Z")

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Ever since the downtime, the boards have performed worse than they’ve done for a long time. I’m getting time-outs, long load times, loads that make all the threads on the board “read” for me … never got any of this prior to the downtime. This sucks.

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