# Main Forum page problem **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 30, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/main-forum-page-problem/565771 "2010-12-30T01:21:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/main-forum-page-problem/565771/1 "2010-12-30T01:21:20Z")
The main page to the forum ([http://boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com)) is messed up. You get the following message: > [@](#): > > [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com) is temporarily down for a database upgrade. Should be back soon. Fortunately, I thought to check the main page ([http://www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com)), and it worked. So I clicked the Forums link. Turns out, it goes to [Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/), which also still works. I just don’t want anyone to think this place is actually down. I noticed one poster thinking it was on another board. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/main-forum-page-problem/565771/2 "2010-12-30T05:01:12Z")
Seems to be working OK for me at this point. ---
**Author:** ![be\_bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@be\_bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/be_bright)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/main-forum-page-problem/565771/3 "2010-12-30T06:02:29Z")
I first saw that around midnight last night before I went to bed…so I freaked out when it was still “temporarily down” this morning. But, yeah, things seem back to normal now… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/main-forum-page-problem/565771/4 "2010-12-30T07:02:37Z")
Okay. I did a hard refresh and it fixed it. I must’ve been loading the page from the cache from when it really was down.