You’re the best!

It's good to know what's happening and that you're on top of the situation.

Do you & Elad have a fund site so we can buy you coffee/tea/cold drinks as you figure this out?

You can make a 1-time or recurring donation there, even if you’re already a member:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/star

Going there now....

and thank you again EarlG and Elad, not only for all the work, but also for making it so easy to contribute even a small amount every now and again!

Noticed that we slowed down

as we age!

😀

I have been getting 504 errors on the ":36s", :46s", and/or ":56s" of the hour (ET).

Hope you can find the source!

going after all Democratic websites.

The spike in traffic to DU is that so many of the network, cable, and local news shows have
become Pravda like pro Trump operations. DU although having a liberal slant but the membership
here tends to be truth driven and so you can read the news without the right wing clutter and
the members here except for Botany tend to be smart and will call out misinformation from the
left too.

DU was slow for me this morning so I watched various news shows and so many were just trash.
I had not seen “News Nation” before and it was garbage.

…. Fox News type outfits that it is not funny. News Nation which I saw for the first time had
some woman saying that the President of some Caribbean Nation that she was glad that
Trump’s murder of those Venezuelans will keep her Island safe from drugs.

Btw I just can’t handle Joe Scarborough every time I see him I think of Florida 2000 and
how helped to steal the election from Al Gore.

has taken over, flooding to progressive safe sites for info and peace of mind. DU, being at the top safe harbor will probably be experiencing exponential growth imho.

Tomorrow is another day

There are lots of awful actors out there.

We would likely have to implement a monthly subscription fee for all members, and I'm not sure it would be economically viable.

When I did, I lurked for awhile to see what was going on.

We need to encourage folks reading DU.

That way, I can see posts from members whom I have on ignore. If I wish to respond to the post of such a member, I will log back in, remove the member from my ignore list, and post my response.

I did not see anything that would have occasioned such a jump in traffic. Like Orrex, ine was hoping. . . .

It's been a while since this has happened.

Unforgettable. Can it be determined if the traffic is out of country?

I don't make the rules. I just report them.

Damn!😢😢

— Freya 💙 (@freyalux.bsky.social) 2025-05-02T12:38:43.987Z

Rump just changed from Maybelline to Cover Girl. All the major news outlets are wildly scrambling to do an exclusive. They must figure that DU has a highly developed sense of fashion.

We appreciate your dedication

Hope it's no big deal and everyone has a pleasant evening. And a good weekend.