Admins: Any chance you could post outage info on Bluesky?

[EarlG]

1. If there is ever a major, peristent outage I will use DU's existing social media accounts to update members

I'll also use our mailing list, which can be joined on the Contact page:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=contact

However, for brief downtime that is resolved quickly, it might not be practical to do that. I'd say if the site is down for multiple hours and there isn't an error message explaining what's going on when you try to connect, then look out for a social media update or an email -- or you can email me to ask what's going on ([e-mail]).

But most of the time, temporary downtimes are caused by a local Internet backbone problem or some kind of traffic issue overloading our servers, and those either clear up fairly quickly, or we're able to notify members by posting an error message. So if you're trying to get on the site and nothing's coming up, give it a bit of time, but if there aren't any updates, feel free to drop me an email.