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Last night I was running a letter-writing party as per my Monday night usual, and around 6:45 Eastern I went to send out the reminder email to my volunteers. I kept trying till 7:15 and just couldn't do it. The mobilize.us domain was REALLY acting up -- 502 errors, insane load times only to generate a page with no data, etc. -- and I was…
Last night I was running a letter-writing party as per my Monday night usual, and around 6:45 Eastern I went to send out the reminder email to my volunteers. I kept trying till 7:15 and just couldn't do it. The mobilize.us domain was REALLY acting up -- 502 errors, insane load times only to generate a page with no data, etc. -- and I was freaking out, worried that it was under a DDOS attack from some shitty alt right hacker group. Things had settled down by 8, and I ran my party with fewer people that I'd had last week, figuring that the missed reminder call had lost me a few people.
This morning a friend of mine was like, sorry I couldn't make it, did you know you were up against Bradley Whitford and Jeff Bridges?
Never in my life have I been more delighted by a drop in volunteer count and a sluggish and unusable website. Hell yeah, LFG!