Last night after finishing up my cake I went to check in here and I got the message that the boards were down for maintenance.

What, no, can't be , did anyone else go into withdrawal mode because you couldn't check in?? I'm getting bad

Joshsmom,

I felt the onsets of withdrawal...LOL..This site is addictive in a VERY Good way! I have learned so much and my confidence level has bossted 10 fold since joining...lol It's just great to be in the company of like minded people...

hmm...
that's a first! i didn't know that happened. i would freak out!! lucky for me, i'm on a different time zone!!

LOL! I kept getting an error message that read ...down for maintenance, be back in 4 minutes. Well, let me tell you, that was the longest 4 minutes of my life! I wonder how many people did what I did and jumped over to theWilton site and made a few posts? LOL

I would have done both if I had noticed!
Withdrawal and jump to Wilton...... but I was too busy. I did keep thinking though that I should take a break and go on....but I didnt....
thank goodness!

Oh, Man! I freaked out big time. I need an alomost every 4-6 hr fix of this place! Especially when I am in between work shifts! Glad I wasn't the only one. I almost wanted to throw my puter!

LOL!

Well hopefully the short downtime was worth it! Everyone should be noticing improvements in page load time!

Thanks Jackie...there is a definite improvement in the load time!!

Yes Jackie, Thank you, load time is definitely quicker

But...... can you just give us addicts a warning before you do that again then we can get our fix beforehand

Absolutely!

here is more info on why we didn't end up doing that this time:
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-1209.html

Come on...at this time, this thread has been viewed 100 times and only 9 replies!! 'Fess up you guys!!

I'm a fessing, I'm a fessing MrsMissey!! I was freaking out!!! Me & jscakes were emailing each other back & forth! I was going to give up & just log offline & she said that a computer glitz wasn't stopping her!! Finally it started working again!!! Gosh was I excited!!! I stayed up till 1:15 just to catch up on all my reading & looking at the new pics that were posted!! I decorated cakes all day so I didn't have time to get on during the day. Gosh, I had a lot of catching up to do!!!! I was having withdrawals big time!! I think I mentioned that to jscakes!! We are all so crazy!!!!!! DON'T WE ALL LOVE CAKE CENTRAL!!!!!!!! THANKS JACKIE!!!!!

I'm glad to see that I was not the only one that was freaking out. My husband was laughing at me because I kept trying..and trying..and trying..he told me to "just give up and try it tomorrow"...I finally decided to call my brother in law (he's a computer guy) and see if it could be something with my computer..while I was on the phone with him, the site came back up..and I was able to survive again. I thought that it was just my luck that as soon as I am feeling good enough to be on the forums, the site shuts down..I sure am glad that it is up and running again.

I've been reading this post...but I was not on when the site went down. But I have been on before when the site was soooo slow I could not get the site to come up
But now it's back and it's getting better! Jackie has added the ablilty to attach pictures to your post, making it much easier than before. Thank you Jackie!!

I feel like that every weekend. I usually don't have time to check the website. By the time I'm done with them I'm pooped, but I ejoy them as well. Tonight I have free time and I'm in heaven.

I feel like that every weekend. I usually don't have time to check the website. By the time I'm done with the kids I'm pooped, but I enjoy them as well. Tonight I have free time and I'm in heaven.

Smooth sailing again tcturtleshell!! Thanks Jackie and all who worked to improve everything!

I can only imagine if something awful were to happen and the time down was an hour or soooooooo----funny how time drags on when you want something now and how it flys by when you are enjoying what you are doing!!!

I thought it was me at first. I kept trying every few minutes.I really need to get on and look up something. Then finally it was back. Thanks Jackie.