# Was the Straight Dope down? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 19, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732 "2013-05-19T16:18:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/1 "2013-05-19T16:18:42Z")
Or was it just me? I couldn’t access the main site or the SDMB until just now. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/2 "2013-05-19T16:19:08Z")
me either ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/3 "2013-05-19T16:19:55Z")
It was down for me. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/4 "2013-05-19T16:22:09Z")
Finally back! Yes it was for me. Yet another black out! ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/5 "2013-05-19T16:25:41Z")
Same here. Although [http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/](http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/) told me it was just me, that the site was up. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/6 "2013-05-19T16:25:56Z")
both the board and column. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/7 "2013-05-19T16:39:38Z")
It was up for me the whole time. I started new threads in every forum, and posted in every existing one. But then a few minutes ago all those threads and posts disappeared. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/8 "2013-05-19T17:28:11Z")
> [@Foggy](#): > > Same here. Although [http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/](http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/) told me it was just me, that the site was up. The actual site was up but there was a database error. That’s why you got a VB error instead of a 404 error. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/9 "2013-05-19T17:44:04Z")
I just had a white screen; most disconcerting. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/10 "2013-05-19T17:49:08Z")
I don’t \*\*know \*\*one way or the other, but if you look at the “last post” times in the main page for any of the well-used columns, you’ll see a gap of approx 7 hours–so the odds are pretty good, I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/11 "2013-05-19T18:55:50Z")
Yes, there was some sort of technical issue. Not sure what exactly but we’re back. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/12 "2013-05-19T19:35:13Z")
Tripolars posts were excellent, BTW. The best, in fact, I’ve ever seen of his. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/13 "2013-05-19T19:59:27Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I just had a white screen; most disconcerting. Me too. Man that felt GOOD. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/14 "2013-05-19T20:14:33Z")
Mine kept showing me a vBulletin icon telling me there’s a problem with the database. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/15 "2013-05-19T20:23:26Z")
There was NOTHING soothing about that. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/16 "2013-05-19T20:32:10Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I just had a white screen; most disconcerting. Yes, the breakdown was caused by white supremacists. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/17 "2013-05-19T20:54:25Z")
The Straight Dope is always down with the street. Yo. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/18 "2013-05-19T21:37:06Z")
Our beloved creaky old board sure goes down a lot. More than any other messageboard I have ever visited, in fact. Combined. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/19 "2013-05-19T21:51:29Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Our beloved creaky old board sure goes down a lot. More than any other messageboard I have ever visited, in fact. Combined. That’s because most other boards have free membership and use the latest software, while this board has paid subscriptions and ad revenue and runs on decades old software… Wait… …No, that’s right. It doesn’t make sense, but its right. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732/20 "2013-05-19T22:15:38Z")
“Was the board down?”, like the recurring favorite “Is this a scam?”, is a thread that you kind of already know the answer to before you open it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-straight-dope-down/658732.md?page=2)