[Andy McDandy]

Is it just me, or have the "reaction" emojis (Oh yes, Hugs, You're talking shit etc) and the little red tab on posts to view/post them been removed?

No real issue if they have - just curious.

[kreuzberger]

It was playing up, all of a sudden, so I merely deactivated it until I get a moment to investigate the whys and wherefores.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Sorry to report that the Host Errors are continuing - couldn't connect at 8am. This has been ongoing for the past week, but seems to be getting worse.

[Killer Whale]

Also, posting sometimes takes minutes to respond. It's tempting to hit Submit again in desperation, which could be the source of the double posts we occasionally see.

[Boiler]

It is. I've been seeing the Cloudflare stuff for some time and posts sometimes do take a long time to load. If you do hit 'submit' again, you usually get a message saying "At least one other post etc." and there will be your post so at this point, I just click and cancel the second post before it loads.

I have noticed of late on other forums that they've been besieged by spammers, for what reason I know not: one forum I follow used to get over 2,000 people online at once (a normal figure was under fifty) and as a result, their allocated data got eaten up in a few days and took them off-line until the new calendar month reset the data allocation, at which point it repeated. Other forums I use have now geo-restricted posters to the UK and e.g. Australia *only*.

[kreuzberger]

Fact is, this software is old and really starting to show it. I have made some changes to the php configuration and, whilst I don't imagine that it will mitigate all the bugs, I am merely trying to manage them out of the overall experience.

Onwards and sidewards.

[Yug]

Is this a new feature?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Same.
I don't seem to be able to log on from my phone any more. Laptop is OK, but that's through a VPN.

[kreuzberger]

1, the 521 errors are not specific from our CDN and generally (briefly) occur when the server is under heavy load, or when maintenance work requires a restart.

2. requests to http://mailwatched.co.uk will usually fail. Requests to https://www.mailwatched.co.uk usually not. As has oft been suggested, cache hygiene is a good thing.
2.b. VPNs are great for porn but bring nothing to our rather more civilised and less sticky party.

[davidjay]

I get cloudflare occasionally, although hitting refresh usually clears it. I also have trouble using Quick Reply lately.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

VPN lets me watch the grands prix when in France...

[Killer Whale]

VPN lets me watch the grands prix when in France...

Yeah. That's what Kreuz was saying.

(You tee 'em up, I'll toe-poke them into the onion bag.)

[kreuzberger]

Apologies for the outage this afternoon.

The DNS needed to be changed in order to resolve the intermittent Cloudflare error. It took a while to refresh.

[Boiler]

Is that why I was getting security certificate errors even though I'd deliberately done the https stuff?

[kreuzberger]

Probably because it was pointing to the domain registrar until everything refreshed. Our SSL is tickety-boo.

[Yug]

I found this quite amusing. Quite what Trainline has to do with it is anybody's guess.

[Yug]

I was having ishoos, getting the message below when I tried to post. Once again, Kreuzie has come riding to the rescue and everything is currently tickety-boo.

That feller's an absolute star.