You could get to know a techie geek like me who did DNS troubleshooting and saw a nameserver not responding.
Here's a better idea. Wait to hear from an official source who actually knows what the issue is rather than speculating about a symptom.
I appreciate that you intend to be helpful. I also appreciate that I've been dealing with this issue since I discovered it at about 3:30 am my time, and that I've been up since then, so I'm less patient than I might be and I'm
very tired. That said:
It is less than helpful to have you speculating about what you
think you know, because you don't know what other people will make of your speculation. You have no way of knowing what they will and won't understand, and what they'll do with your speculation.
So please, if you want to be helpful, consider re-tweeting the official tweets. Check out the Chat room.
I appreciate the people re-tweeting the messages on Twitter, and in general people's patience with this. It helps enormously.
But having just over 300 of you attempting to contact me via email (and likely even more emailing Mac who doesn't have regular access to her email because she's dealing with a family issue) to tell me the server is down, or asking when it will be up,
doesn't help.
Neither does speculating about what's going on.
I usually know pretty quickly if the server isn't up because I get a phone call and text message from a service to tell me it's not up.
Please try to remember that if there's a problem with AW, I'm going to be working trying to fix it. I'm not going to be able to answer your email/FB messages etc. There's a reason we use FB and Twitter and let the mods know what's going on; it's more efficient.
Follow Twitter. Check Facebook. Log into Chat. Check with the mods, who receive (and did receive) regular updates.
Here are some links:
https://twitter.com/LisaSpangenberg
https://twitter.com/absolutewrite
https://www.facebook.com/groups/absolutewrite/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/AbsoluteWrite/103771526334620
http://www.starchat.net/chat/?chan=Absolutewrite
But
please let Mac and me work.
Best of all, work on your current WIP.
Also, it would be greatly appreciated if everyone would remember that AW isn't the only thing Mac or I have on our plates. Sometimes you're going to have to wait. Right now especially, with Mac being out of pocket, it's tricky. I can't drive, for instance, so when I'm not at home, it's going to mean having to walk somewhere that I can log in. And then I do like to sleep occasionally.
We'll get things back asap. I promise. And we do appreciate the amount of love AW members have for this place.