The Big Freeze

The Big Feeze

The Big Freeze, isn't really part of the RESidential lifestyle, but it had a great impact on us, and plays a big part in RES History. Now before you get all picky, I do know that this picture has nothing to do with the Big Freeze on a kids website. But you know, it looks cool and it's frozen and so yeah.

The Big Freeze took place a few years back. I can't remember exactly when, but it probably says when somewhere on the web. I was here before and during the freeze. I'm also here now, so basically, I've had first-hand experiance. It was absolutely terrible, you couldn't post comments for months on end, and sometimes it shut down your computer (happened to me even if it didn't to you :3). After months of hiding-out on Pinz, someone ventured back onto the cold-plains of RES, and posted a comment. They waited and they waited. The comment did eventually appear. But after hours. So we were able to post again, but very, very, very slowly.

But we lived with it. Commenting became slightly faster, and we still talked on pinz. We were coping. And then after more months, weeks and days, we could post again. Quickly. We didn't have to wait hours for posts, and we could talk freely again. I didn't ever work out why it froze, though someone else probably did. It wasn't because of the M3WL/ Filter, or the new layout. The choice of colour and text-size was still around, as was the unlimited word-count. So nothing had changed. Yet. But that's another story....