Sciforums outage

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No other members show as signed-in at this time, though there are almost 500 guests (probably bots) who can somehow likewise still load the site.

What's crazy is that despite the theory of the license being expired (or whatever is causing this), I can still visit SF when I use a certain app installed on the browser (and only then).

EDIT: I see that "el es" did post earlier as I did, and exhemist is online now. So a few of us can still get through. Not a total outage everywhere.
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This is like wandering the streets of a ghost town.

At least the number of guests (bots) has dwindled to half the amount of several hours ago. The zombies can somehow reach this place when 99% of the humans can't. But even they're struggling now.

Hmm... Will this thread even still be here when Sciforums returns to normal? Will it revert back to an earlier copy? I guess that's part of the "diary" experiment here, to find out...
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C C said:
No other members show as signed-in at this time, though there are almost 500 guests (probably bots) who can somehow likewise still load the site.

What's crazy is that despite the theory of the license being expired (or whatever is causing this), I can still visit SF when I use a certain app installed on the browser (and only then).

EDIT: I see that "el es" did post earlier as I did, and exhemist is online now. So a few of us can still get through. Not a total outage everywhere.
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У меня тоже некоторое время не работал сайт. Меньше суток. Сейчас всё заработало.
 
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This is like wandering the streets of a ghost town.

At least the number of guests (bots) has dwindled to half the amount of several hours ago. The zombies can somehow reach this place when 99% of the humans can't. But even they're struggling now.

Hmm... Will this thread even still be here when Sciforums returns to normal? Will it revert back to an earlier copy? I guess that's part of the "diary" experiment here, to find out...
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Myself and DaveC426913 could not get on the site before. I pmd James R prior to that as the site had not updated for 8 hours or so. Seems to be ok now?
 
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Woohoo - the bills have the been paid, the lights are back on! Or whatever it was that told me that services to the website had been suspended.


Edit: about 2,800 "guests" online here at the moment. Can't recall whether this is the most I've seen.
 
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Yay, we're back! I was thinking the zombie apocalypse had finally come, but SF is still here, so all is well in the world.
 
Physics forum was our fallback position. DaveC426913 has an account there so PMd me, useful if there is an issue with your account or an outage like yesterday.
 
Checked the whois .com status but it was only updated yesterday and still shows it as expiring on the 6th.

In case of interest sciforums.om is available.
 
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This is like wandering the streets of a ghost town.

At least the number of guests (bots) has dwindled to half the amount of several hours ago. The zombies can somehow reach this place when 99% of the humans can't. But even they're struggling now.

Hmm... Will this thread even still be here when Sciforums returns to normal? Will it revert back to an earlier copy? I guess that's part of the "diary" experiment here, to find out...
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still here
 
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geordief said:
Checked the whois .com status but it was only updated yesterday and still shows it as expiring on the 6th.

In case of interest sciforums.om is available.
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The dot om is a more meditative version.

I was slightly concerned when I discovered this site has that DN registrar company that scammers, disinformation sites, ransomware, and other shady operators use, in Reykjavik. (an unfortunate downside of Iceland's liberal laws on Net freedom and privacy)

It shares an address with the Penis Museum:

grapevine.is

From Iceland — Iceland Harbouring The Web's "Sketchiest Sites", NYT Report

Some of the internet’s “sketchiest websites” are registered at an Iceland address, the New York Times report in an extensive...
grapevine.is
 
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TheVat said:
The dot om is a more meditative version.

I was slightly concerned when I discovered this site has that DN registrar company that scammers, disinformation sites, ransomware, and other shady operators use, in Reykjavik. (an unfortunate downside of Iceland's liberal laws on Net freedom and privacy)

It shares an address with the Penis Museum:

grapevine.is

From Iceland — Iceland Harbouring The Web's "Sketchiest Sites", NYT Report

Some of the internet’s “sketchiest websites” are registered at an Iceland address, the New York Times report in an extensive...
grapevine.is
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Reminds me, one of these days I must get round to visiting the pencil museum in Keswick. I’m told it is not as absurd as it sounds.
 
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Reminds me, one of these days I must get round to visiting the pencil museum in Keswick. I’m told it is not as absurd as it sounds.
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That reminds of the old Saturday Night Live skits with John Belusi about the Lamp Shade store and the Scotch Tape Store.
 
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Pinball1970 said:
Myself and DaveC426913 could not get on the site before. I pmd James R prior to that as the site had not updated for 8 hours or so. Seems to be ok now?
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I actually did see Dave registering as online for a while later, too, but apparently it wasn't full access or something. On another forum, exchemist seemed to have confirmed being able to reach SF, but things were not functioning very well.
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I actually did see Dave registering as online for a while later, too, but apparently it wasn't full access or something. On another forum, exchemist seemed to have confirmed being able to reach SF, but things were not functioning very well.
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It may just have been a cached version of the webpage that I was seeing, though.

Anyway, the problem seems to be solved.
 
C C said:
This is like wandering the streets of a ghost town.

At least the number of guests (bots) has dwindled to half the amount of several hours ago. The zombies can somehow reach this place when 99% of the humans can't. But even they're struggling now.
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This is chilling. Both the ghost town aspect, but also the (mostly) unstoppable bots. When did we all become so accepting and nonchalant about bots? Bots are gonna kill us all (and let "god" sort us out).
 
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