Admins, please go to Defcon 4. Site is very slow on high speed connection.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

Thank you.

[hrmjustin]

1. rec!

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Thought it was just me

It's been a long time!

[uppityperson]

3. I think the software does it automatically

[TexasProgresive]

4. What the hell is DEFCON 4

Slightly above normal?

DEFCON 1 is the end of the world.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

6. Typo, maybe? They know what I mean. As do a couple of others who have responded here. But,

you knew what I meant, too.

I find it odd that this is the nit you would pick in the face of an unjust GJ decision that means that Mike Brown will not be afforded a Darren Wilson trial.

[TexasProgresive]

7. I am disturbed by the Grand Jury decision

I lived with the DEFCON system of alerts and watched as DEFCON 3 came close to 2. The fear from top to bottom was palpable. It is not something you can ever forget.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

10. Well, when the context is a slow DU, defcon is the usual term used to request/describe

that condition. It is a request to switch the boards to low-bandwidth mode, which cuts the images and uses less icons and other bandwidth-using element of the website so that it loads in a reasonable amount of time. And it has always worked rather well in times like this. Perhaps you haven't had occasion to witness DU being slammed enough to engage emergency bandwidth limiting measures.

I am sorry you had to live with the fear of actual defcon alerts.

[TexasProgresive]

12. It's just that DEFCON 4 is system slighlty abnormal

About the same as the old Homeland color alert of blue.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. Go to The Latest Thread page. There you will see the high traffic alert and....

.... the different levels of feature restrictions.

Currently we are at defcon 1. Which seems to restrict advance search.

[TexasProgresive]

14. What I see is no reference to DEFCON

It's levels 1 to 5 with 5 being the highest restriction.

[WinkyDink]

8. You'll need to ask Agent Bob.

[LiberalElite]

5. I thought it was just me. Thanks. nt

[Agschmid]

9. I'm on mobile, not slow for me. It's weird.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

11. The slam has slammed. Mostly back to normal. nt

[freshwest]

16. Yes, it was frustrating. I got a message when searching that it'd been disabled for high traffic.

Seems to be up and going again...

[BumRushDaShow]

15. I'm on mobile too but the load is now being handled (the Defcon mode)

However, just before 9 ET, the place slowed down to a crawl or was unresponsive. Running smooth now.