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December 04, 2023, 04:22:52 PM
#59
Hahaha...1 hour is an understatement, it's way more. Smiley

If I am not mistaken, that downtime can't be anything less than 3 hours this time. I used the update I received on a telegram group to judge this which I believe is way more. You know what? I believe that people were more panicky this time than the last ones judging by the recent developments going on in the forum.

Well, I hope that we can be updated regularly on the cause of the downtime or even be warned before it happens at all.

The last time, I encountered downtime it was for 3 hours. Don't know what happen. Who knows if it's really a random issue or some kind of attack attempt. Theymos did they, that it was some server side problem. The most concerning part it the downtimes are becoming more frequent and longer. That is what what starts the panics.

There's no how there wouldn't be any form of glitches on the means to get access to the forum or internet as there's no assurance that things like this will not keep happening, though it may mean nothing but it's better that we know there will occasional experience like this, regarding the downtime, sometimes it may be due to the upgrade made to the forum or the other related internet connectivity challenges from accessing the forum, but the good thing is that it's all nothing to worry a about.
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December 04, 2023, 03:46:20 PM
#58
Hahaha...1 hour is an understatement, it's way more. Smiley

If I am not mistaken, that downtime can't be anything less than 3 hours this time. I used the update I received on a telegram group to judge this which I believe is way more. You know what? I believe that people were more panicky this time than the last ones judging by the recent developments going on in the forum.

Well, I hope that we can be updated regularly on the cause of the downtime or even be warned before it happens at all.

The last time, I encountered downtime it was for 3 hours. Don't know what happen. Who knows if it's really a random issue or some kind of attack attempt. Theymos did they, that it was some server side problem. The most concerning part it the downtimes are becoming more frequent and longer. That is what what starts the panics.
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December 02, 2023, 03:25:19 PM
#57
Did it take 3 minutes to get each scrape?
No, it means there were no posts for 3 minutes. I tried much more often.

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If it was a DDoS attack, it is better for the server to shut down rather than allowing unwanted people to enter the server.
A DDoS doesn't give anyone access to the server. And I don't think it's a DDoS, if so, Cloudflare would jump to crazy Captcha mode. Cloudflare worked just fine, the server didn't.

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Believe it or not, I have the feeling that over the next few months, there will be a lot of these types of attacks. Undecided
Or weird undiagnosed network problems.
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December 02, 2023, 02:35:48 PM
#56
Another downtime for bitcointalk was observed today. I did not know that exact duration but roughly it was for an hour or so.

Still, we do not have the exact reasons for these downtimes but anyways the good thing is that we are back online and there is nothing to worry about.  Smiley
Hahaha...1 hour is an understatement, it's way more. Smiley

If I am not mistaken, that downtime can't be anything less than 3 hours this time. I used the update I received on a telegram group to judge this which I believe is way more. You know what? I believe that people were more panicky this time than the last ones judging by the recent developments going on in the forum.

Well, I hope that we can be updated regularly on the cause of the downtime or even be warned before it happens at all.
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December 02, 2023, 01:21:11 PM
#55
The same thing happened to me just right now, I thought it’s my internet connection because the Bitcointalk page usually doesn’t take more than a second to load. This time I tried Like more than five time to load it knowing all other websites and apps are working fine.
The coincidence is that I found this topic when finally got in, going go Show unread posts since last visit and this topic appeared first just to read that many of us having the same issue that’s something to really worry about beside it’s so annoying and different than the cloudflare error we use to get.
Believe it or not, I have the feeling that over the next few months, there will be a lot of these types of attacks. Undecided
I share the same feeling, something or someone powerful is behind this is trying to lock Bitcointalk for good or at least cause harm to it.
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December 02, 2023, 01:16:02 PM
#54
Those down times are annoying, it messes with my scraping Tongue

Time for updated statistics (all gaps >3 minutes between scraped posts since post #63million):

Did it take 3 minutes to get each scrape? This clearly shows that the server was heavily underloaded.
If it was a DDoS attack, it is better for the server to shut down rather than allowing unwanted people to enter the server.

Believe it or not, I have the feeling that over the next few months, there will be a lot of these types of attacks. Undecided
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December 02, 2023, 03:39:37 AM
#53
Another downtime for bitcointalk was observed today. I did not know that exact duration but roughly it was for an hour or so.

Still, we do not have the exact reasons for these downtimes but anyways the good thing is that we are back online and there is nothing to worry about.  Smiley

There was a 504 error. One of the possible causes of this error is server overload due to a sudden influx of traffic. So, I guess it might have just been a DDoS attack.
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December 02, 2023, 03:39:10 AM
#52
Those down times are annoying, it messes with my scraping Tongue

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legendary
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December 02, 2023, 03:17:17 AM
#51
Another downtime for bitcointalk was observed today. I did not know that exact duration but roughly it was for an hour or so.
It was a bit longer than that, as according to ninjastic.space there is a gap with no posts between 05:29 UTC and 07:11 UTC so ~1:40.



Still, we do not have the exact reasons for these downtimes but anyways the good thing is that we are back online and there is nothing to worry about.  Smiley
Afaik, we never got an answer what exactly is causing it.
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December 02, 2023, 03:14:57 AM
#50
Another downtime for bitcointalk was observed today. I did not know that exact duration but roughly it was for an hour or so.

Still, we do not have the exact reasons for these downtimes but anyways the good thing is that we are back online and there is nothing to worry about.  Smiley
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November 11, 2023, 10:59:18 PM
#49
Yesterday, it was down for some minutes as well, and prior to that for hours.

I have never faced such problem, so it might be due to network problem and sometimes development works. Especially since I just watched all the episodes of Pahela April Fool. The forum is working on a special type of development so it is normal to have forum downtime for some time.

I confirm on downforeveryoneorjustme if it's me or everyone. If you didn't face it you were probably inactive during that time.

What's Pahela April Fool?
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November 11, 2023, 09:27:30 PM
#48
Bitcointalk was down for around 10 mins or so. Did anyone noticed?  Any reasons, Server glitches or DDOS attack  Huh

I also confirmed from downforeveryoneorjustme to be sure the problem was not at my end.



I have never faced such problem, so it might be due to network problem and sometimes development works. Especially since I just watched all the episodes of Pahela April Fool. The forum is working on a special type of development so it is normal to have forum downtime for some time.
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November 11, 2023, 07:06:58 PM
#47
It's strange because I couldn't load the forum but other tabs didn't have the same problem. When it doesn't load it's for short times before connecting again but this time I didn't see the Cloudflare page. It's happened for a few seconds today so if it's my browser loading I'll say sorry because I've misunderstood but if it's the server other users must've noticed it.

Am I the only one noticing this or is this normal? For a few month now forum seems to be kind of dead, could this be related to these blackouts or we are loosing traffic day after day? What happened to that lively forum where we could find so many amazing topics to discuss?  Maybe this is what it has become, a place for spammers to discuss, well NOTHING. 😕
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November 11, 2023, 06:05:47 AM
#46
This is the third time I am experiencing this gateway timeout I don know if it has been happening since this forum was create or is it a new experience? The last one that occurred lasted close to an hour, and i most confess this timeout is not good for this forum health most especially its frequent occurrence. Is there any possible solution to this issue, if there is, I think its time to put an end to this. Mr Theymos please if its in your power to put an end to this please this is where you come in, my first two times of experiencing this I taught the forum has cut me off the forum
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November 11, 2023, 03:58:32 AM
#45
Am I the only one noticing this or is this normal? For a few month now forum seems to be kind of dead, could this be related to these blackouts or we are loosing traffic day after day? What happened to that lively forum where we could find so many amazing topics to discuss?  Maybe this is what it has become, a place for spammers to discuss, well NOTHING. 😕
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November 10, 2023, 08:59:27 PM
#44
I've made this post but the site went down again for 1 minute.

We don't know if it's getting down time because of someone or ppl trying to hack the forum. The server's been hacked before so it's possible it's happening again but it's suffered attacks before so I wouldn't be surprised. In the end it starts working so we're able to enjoy access to the forum but it's got to be bad waiting for ppl who find it offline.

At beginning of 2022 when I registered here in the forum, I really get confused whenever this happen and thought someone or people were trying to hack the forum that way this error keep happening but as time past I begin to understand that it's actually normal because I have come across this not one or twice so I don't get tripped by the server or system being down anymore .
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November 10, 2023, 07:39:47 PM
#43
This topic of Bitcointalk is/was down sometimes scares me, would really like to know if this is just a minor technically issue that users shouldn't be scared of and is like a normal thing that happens each year, I don't get it? But why?

Once again the bitcointalk was down today and this outage was for a long time. I do not know exactly but when I tried to reach bitcointalk it did not open and then I tried after half an hour it still failed to load.
Just checked now and we are back up again.

I hope there was nothing to worry about  Huh

This is the same thing I had in mind when I noticed it, I had to start far from my device just to avoid that panic feeling disturbing my stomach. After some hours I tried coming online and it worked like nothing happened. I just see these constant behavior as a normal thing now but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned or worried about it.
What should be the issue, must it always happen every new month? Or is that a way of telling us happy new month?
To be sincere with you, I think something need to be done to stop it completely, not that easy but it should be.
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November 10, 2023, 06:36:44 PM
#42
I didn't notice the site went down today because I wasn't online. If the site went down for 1 hour today it's going to affect users who've started complaining more. If the servers down time's gone from minutes to hours it doesn't show the problem's under control. Is it getting down time because of attacks?

Yes Bitcointalk was down again but it long last about an hour and fee minutes but now we can still access and it back to normal but as theymos said in quoted above we don't need to worry about cause theymos will do his best to fix this is downtime. Anyways hoping that  it will not happen again this time. Cause As I observe comparing  lastime and now is the longer one cause last time it takes a few minutes but now More than an hour.
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November 10, 2023, 11:42:38 AM
#41
This topic of Bitcointalk is/was down sometimes scares me, would really like to know if this is just a minor technically issue that users shouldn't be scared of and is like a normal thing that happens each year, I don't get it? But why?

Once again the bitcointalk was down today and this outage was for a long time. I do not know exactly but when I tried to reach bitcointalk it did not open and then I tried after half an hour it still failed to load.
Just checked now and we are back up again.

I hope there was nothing to worry about  Huh

Yes Bitcointalk was down again but it long last about an hour and fee minutes but now we can still access and it back to normal but as theymos said in quoted above we don't need to worry about cause theymos will do his best to fix this is downtime. Anyways hoping that  it will not happen again this time. Cause As I observe comparing  lastime and now is the longer one cause last time it takes a few minutes but now More than an hour.
At beginning of 2022 when I registered here in the forum, I really get confused whenever this happen and thought someone or people were trying to hack the forum that way this error keep happening but as time past I begin to understand that it's actually normal because I have come across this not one or twice so I don't get tripped by the server or system being down anymore .
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November 10, 2023, 10:57:15 AM
#40
This topic of Bitcointalk is/was down sometimes scares me, would really like to know if this is just a minor technically issue that users shouldn't be scared of and is like a normal thing that happens each year, I don't get it? But why?

Once again the bitcointalk was down today and this outage was for a long time. I do not know exactly but when I tried to reach bitcointalk it did not open and then I tried after half an hour it still failed to load.
Just checked now and we are back up again.

I hope there was nothing to worry about  Huh

Yes Bitcointalk was down again but it long last about an hour and fee minutes but now we can still access and it back to normal but as theymos said in quoted above we don't need to worry about cause theymos will do his best to fix this is downtime. Anyways hoping that  it will not happen again this time. Cause As I observe comparing  lastime and now is the longer one cause last time it takes a few minutes but now More than an hour.
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November 10, 2023, 08:09:04 AM
#39
Somehow there seems to be a pattern in the downtimes as they have mostly taken place at the same time recently.
There are now 2 topics about forum downtime. See this post of mine for patterns.
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November 10, 2023, 07:00:46 AM
#38
This topic of Bitcointalk is/was down sometimes scares me, would really like to know if this is just a minor technically issue that users shouldn't be scared of and is like a normal thing that happens each year, I don't get it? But why?

Once again the bitcointalk was down today and this outage was for a long time. I do not know exactly but when I tried to reach bitcointalk it did not open and then I tried after half an hour it still failed to load.
Just checked now and we are back up again.

I hope there was nothing to worry about  Huh

The downtime today lasted for about 100 minutes. This can be easily tracked:
The last post was at 06:04:45 AM and the following and therefore first post after the downtime was written at 07:45:29 AM ~ around 100min later.

Somehow there seems to be a pattern in the downtimes as they have mostly taken place at the same time recently.
theymos has already made this point and cannot explain it at the moment. He probably assumes there is "some automated maintenance process". See quote:
It was the same weird thing which caused a few hours of downtime 6-12 months ago, and I think it's what causes the few minutes of downtime people observe every few weeks. I've never been able to figure out what causes it. It looks like the network gets cut between the web server and the database for a while. It seems to always happen at around the same time, so I suppose it's probably some automated maintenance process messing something up, but I don't have anything running at this time, so I wonder if it's something in the web-host's networking infrastructure, or something like that. It's difficult to diagnose, since it happens rarely, and usually when I'm sleeping.

I'm planning on upgrading the main servers sometime in the next few months. (Just as part of standard maintenance: there will be no user-visible changes other than perhaps slightly improved speed.) Maybe that'll fix it just by virtue of moving things to different areas.

(The few minutes of downtime just now was due to me doing something, and is unrelated.)


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November 10, 2023, 06:40:38 AM
#37
I never experienced any of these, is it that it only had to affect some users and didn't to others?

There's no how you wouldn't have been on the forum over some months now but see this happening, why you may nit experienced such is when you're probably not online to see this happening, but for those that have been active and regular being online on the forum, they would have had several encounters on this and it means no harm than the normal upgrade sometimes, you also have to take note of these that onces it's something that has to do with the forum, anyone being online as at that time will have to experience the forum inaccessible for that period, though it may not last.

I can't still point out why this is really happening, if I'm not mistaken it has happened like 4-5 times this year and is like nothing is being done or is this just something we don't need to panic about?

There's nothing to panic about, i can remember the last one that happened, Theymos address it and talked that it wasn't as a result of any upgrade from his end.

This topic of Bitcointalk is/was down sometimes scares me, would really like to know if this is just a minor technically issue that users shouldn't be scared of and is like a normal thing that happens each year, I don't get it? But why?

Don't panic, expect network glitches atimes aside the normal upgrades on the forum softwares.
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November 10, 2023, 03:53:18 AM
#36
This topic of Bitcointalk is/was down sometimes scares me, would really like to know if this is just a minor technically issue that users shouldn't be scared of and is like a normal thing that happens each year, I don't get it? But why?

Once again the bitcointalk was down today and this outage was for a long time. I do not know exactly but when I tried to reach bitcointalk it did not open and then I tried after half an hour it still failed to load.
Just checked now and we are back up again.

I hope there was nothing to worry about  Huh
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October 09, 2023, 02:20:31 AM
#35
I never experienced any of these, is it that it only had to affect some users and didn't to others? I can't still point out why this is really happening, if I'm not mistaken it has happened like 4-5 times this year and is like nothing is being done or is this just something we don't need to panic about?
This topic of Bitcointalk is/was down sometimes scares me, would really like to know if this is just a minor technically issue that users shouldn't be scared of and is like a normal thing that happens each year, I don't get it? But why?
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October 08, 2023, 09:53:14 PM
#34
Every post I have sent for about three hours goes to cloud flare. Then posts time out.  If I open another window the post did take.

This issue comes and goes for over a decade. I suspect it may be general internet issue today due to the Israel 🇮🇱 Vs Palestine 🇵🇸 that fired up yesterday.
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October 08, 2023, 09:21:26 PM
#33
I did not even noticed it. But that is for the headsup.
It may be just me, but this year there have been several occasions I have seen people reporting the forum to be down or inaccessible for some reason. I have personally downplayed as maintenance time or so, since they have not even more than some mins (less than an hour). So nothing to panic over, I guess ?.

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October 08, 2023, 07:41:42 PM
#32
If the forum is down for hours there might be a reason for a thread, but only a few minutes doesn't really seem like a big deal. The admins will fix the issue either way if/when they can, so really not a reason for a thread IMO. If something out of the ordinary is happening, i'm sure they'll inform us.
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October 08, 2023, 07:38:39 PM
#31
Today again I experienced that Bitcointalk was down for a few minutes.


Now that you have mentioned it...
Didn't get any message like above ,but CloudFlare did show that server went offline on Bitcointalks side in the morning which gave me an idea 💡 that we were experiencing some downtime, hope no DDoS stuff..
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October 08, 2023, 07:10:21 PM
#30
I never experienced this maybe do I say I wasn't active at the time it happened, currently is working fine on my ending sometime it could be network issues.
It's usually because it lasts few minutes only and sometimes it's on our end only but in your case whenever it might have happened you were inactive or your browser cache never experienced any error while loading the forum but it has happened many times.The last time forum was down for long and we have too many threads about that if you search on meta board.

Today again I experienced that Bitcointalk was down for a few minutes.



This time the duration of the downtime was very less, so I think very few people would have noticed it who were active exactly at that moment.

For few hours now I have not visited here so i can't say i witnessed it because i wasn't active being that today was my service day and it was dedicated to it, but however, i know it's not something much so is natural for us to always have an update at least for the system to be in a good working mode than before maybe when next it appears like this we don't need to panic over it rather just give it sometimes to properly function back, and i know this time it would be very fast and effective.
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October 08, 2023, 02:12:15 AM
#29
I never experienced this maybe do I say I wasn't active at the time it happened, currently is working fine on my ending sometime it could be network issues.
It's usually because it lasts few minutes only and sometimes it's on our end only but in your case whenever it might have happened you were inactive or your browser cache never experienced any error while loading the forum but it has happened many times.The last time forum was down for long and we have too many threads about that if you search on meta board.

Today again I experienced that Bitcointalk was down for a few minutes.



This time the duration of the downtime was very less, so I think very few people would have noticed it who were active exactly at that moment.
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September 04, 2023, 04:33:31 PM
#28
I never experienced this maybe do I say I wasn't active at the time it happened, currently is working fine on my ending sometime it could be network issues.
It's usually because it lasts few minutes only and sometimes it's on our end only but in your case whenever it might have happened you were inactive or your browser cache never experienced any error while loading the forum but it has happened many times.The last time forum was down for long and we have too many threads about that if you search on meta board.
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September 04, 2023, 03:53:45 PM
#27
Bitcointalk was down for around 10 mins or so. Did anyone noticed?  Any reasons, Server glitches or DDOS attack  Huh

I also confirmed from downforeveryoneorjustme to be sure the problem was not at my end.


Maybe the first time of me not noticing any downtime or glitches in access bitcointalk forum. This can rightly explain how busy I am these days. In all, I applaud theymo and maybe cyrus or any other admin that works with theymos. It is not easy to have this site running from year to year without going down. I am a witness to so many sites that goes down more often than they operate.
What I will also love to see is that after such downtime, theymos should be able to address the forum and tell us the possible cause of the incident. Maybe it is not necessary.
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September 04, 2023, 03:53:09 PM
#26
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Maybe you are just overthinking it, overthinking create problems that are not there.

 It is more of the time technical related issues which is common not an attack of any kind.
I'm not over thinking - but the question is worth it considering there have been hacking incidents in the past that have befallen bitcointalk. It's true that we don't need to worry - but questions like this are asked because bitcointalk has often been down because some of the reason so far.

It can be worrisome, but try not to be too worried.
Yes, I know. Thanks.
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September 04, 2023, 02:40:03 PM
#25
Bitcointalk was down for around 10 mins or so. Did anyone noticed?  Any reasons, Server glitches or DDOS attack  Huh

I also confirmed from downforeveryoneorjustme to be sure the problem was not at my end.

What time did this happen?
On September 3rd, there was also a period of 5 minutes down on TalkImg.

EDIT:
Code:
Monitor: talkimg.com
Checked URL: GET https://talkimg.com
Cause: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)

Started at: 3 Sep 2023 at 01:36pm +00
Resolved at: 3 Sep 2023 at 01:44pm +00 (automatically)
Length: 5 minutes
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September 04, 2023, 01:32:20 PM
#24
Is it that we're going to be experiencing different types of issues on this Forum every 2-3 months? We need a solution to all these problems, it should be sorted out.
Hope this is just a technical problem and if it is then it need to be fixed immediately because it might cause some panic that's if it hasn't already.
Let this be the last scare for this year please... Big boss should look into this crazy glitch.
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September 04, 2023, 10:18:47 AM
#23
The forum getting down looks like a regular activity for me. It is not just one of situation that we all have encountered. This year there has been more than three times that the forum went offline. @theymos doesn't reply to such post nor will he keep other social media active. I was the first, asking him to keep the Twitter account active. To which his reply was not what I expected. There should be another way to contact those who are active on this platform in case of such issues. If not then we need to ask him to again get active or hire someone close or active forum members to do this job. This is not the first time I have asked, I canonly try unless the admin decides to ignore my request. Which I am assuming he would, staying updated in such situation can be gathered by anyone in local telegram group or discord group.
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September 04, 2023, 08:18:48 AM
#22
Afaik, forum has some kind of random maintenance every month since the issue of the imgur images started because I remember experiencing same issue like this before and I verify it on my co-local forum via social media. The downtime is only few minutes compared before that’s why it’s ot noticeable already unless you are constructing a post or browsing the forum when the maintenance occurs.
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September 04, 2023, 08:14:08 AM
#21
Longer down time would've caused panic. The forum wasn't accessible for a few minutes so it wouldn't have been noticed by ppl. Most users wouldn't be online so early on Sunday morning so it's impact should've been small.

Yes, I noticed it but I don't think it lasted more than five minutes. It's something many users would've missed without thinking twice anything went wrong. I noticed it because I was trying to do something online at the time. Nonetheless, I think we've been having this issue of forum being down more repeatedly this day. I hope something odd isn't brewing somewhere.
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September 04, 2023, 07:38:31 AM
#20
Yes, I noticed it but I don't think it lasted more than five minutes. It's something many users would've missed without thinking twice anything went wrong. I noticed it because I was trying to do something online at the time. Nonetheless, I think we've been having this issue of forum being down more repeatedly this day. I hope something odd isn't brewing somewhere.
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September 04, 2023, 06:56:24 AM
#19
Could it be that a group of people is planning something bad and attacking bitcointalk - but for what?
Maybe you are just overthinking it, overthinking create problems that are not there.

 It is more of the time technical related issues which is common not an attack of any kind.

It can be worrisome, but try not to be too worried.
I won't say he's overthinking he can be right in his thoughts on this. There's much competition and with similar cryptocurrency platforms like bitcointalk.org who won't hesitate to take down the platform at any chance giving.

Severally it has been due to a technical glitch on different occasions but we shouldn't assume it to always be a technical glitch when such challenge occurs. We should also weigh other options too.
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September 04, 2023, 06:54:09 AM
#18
Bitcointalk was down for around 10 mins or so. Did anyone noticed?  Any reasons, Server glitches or DDOS attack  Huh

I also confirmed from downforeveryoneorjustme to be sure the problem was not at my end.



That's true but I don't think using the word bitcointalk was down is best in describing the situation, i experience the short outage also but it doesn't last, i think this will be the second time it will be happening in less than two weeks if am not mistaking, aside from the one that lasted upto 3hrs some months back, i think it's more of a maintenance time when such happened and we can regard it as as a period the forum go under maintenance for some updates on it site.
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September 04, 2023, 04:18:32 AM
#17
Could it be that a group of people is planning something bad and attacking bitcointalk - but for what?
Maybe you are just overthinking it, overthinking create problems that are not there.

 It is more of the time technical related issues which is common not an attack of any kind.

It can be worrisome, but try not to be too worried.
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September 03, 2023, 06:45:43 PM
#16
I'm here and wondering what's going on - but wait, I really didn't realize it. But luckily - it was resolved quickly before I posted anything today.

So far bitcointalk seems often have problems. I don't know what the problem is - but on some occasions it is annoying. Could it be that a group of people is planning something bad and attacking bitcointalk - but for what?
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September 03, 2023, 06:38:51 PM
#15
I haven't experienced down time when I've used the forum. Each time I open the site the forum's available there aren't issues. If it's getting problems on Sunday morning it's happening at times when I'm usually not online. I'm glad I didn't see it.

I'm going to bet it was just some server glitch or a server migration downtime by whatever server service Theymos is using. The server I personally use — Vultr, frequently has maintenance but little to no downtime.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is there even a reason for anyone to DDoS Bitcointalk knowing that there is no other close competitor anyway? Lol.
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September 03, 2023, 06:26:55 PM
#14
I didn't even notice this technical glitch and only found out about it from this thread.
Same here, i feel like only few notices this probably because it's sunday — rest day, family day etc. Because if not, people will keep spamming meta for the same reason.
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September 03, 2023, 04:05:03 PM
#13
This mostly affects the regular user and other thing why I didn't come realized about the sudden short down could be a time difference, so I suspected it to be at midnight over here that was why we hardly detects it or come to face same issues as others did.
But from experience so far, we don't need to worry over this technical issues as it often comes and disappears.
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September 03, 2023, 10:58:34 AM
#12
I didn't even notice this technical glitch and only found out about it from this thread. I believe that the majority of such users. I don't think that this is a reason for panic and worries. Glitches happen, so what can you do. If the forum works thanks to the work of the administration, because as you can see, we continue to communicate on it, then everything is in order. Bitcointalk continues to live the same life.
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September 03, 2023, 07:45:44 AM
#11
The time difference between OmegaStarScream and Latviand's comment was 7 minutes, bitcointalk was down for less than 7 minutes.
There were a few more posts in between those 2, but indeed, it was about 7 minutes between post 62787410 and post 62787411.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is there even a reason for anyone to DDoS Bitcointalk knowing that there is no other close competitor anyway? Lol.
One can only speculate, but a DDOS is what forced theymos to move to Cloudflare. Cloudflare is terrible for privacy:
I especially dislike Cloudflare, which I'm almost certain is basically owned by US intelligence agencies.
Cloudflare is very probably an NSA honeypot
For all I know it's like the tire repair guy who scatters thumb tacks on the road.
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September 03, 2023, 07:14:09 AM
#10
Well, I wouldn’t notice as the session is said to have taken just about 10minutes and I wasn’t active at the time.
Still, it’s an interesting site you’ve shared being entirely new to me.
I also confirmed from downforeveryoneorjustme to be sure the problem was not at my end.

I had a quick visit and read on it just minutes to making this post and it clearly shows the site been active at the time and the exception was directed at me with the site being up now. Though, a downtime didn’t reflect in the site downtime records within the last 24hours which implies, there wasn’t anything major about it. Which gives reasons to be cool about these brief sessions!

There operandum is based on the networking of servers as in quote;
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This server check is performed from an edge node closest to you, from a network that is present in over 285 cities and 100+ countries. We then check the server status code returned to show you if bitcointalk.org is up or down.
Still a good one.
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September 03, 2023, 07:11:00 AM
#9
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Any reasons, Server glitches or DDOS attack  Huh
Could be either, could also be due to an update on the server. To be certain what caused the downtime, the admin will have to reply and give us a hint.

- Jay -

Server updates only cause a few minutes downtime like 5 minutes. Unless it is Windows.

They are using Windows?  Grin

System is updating, wait forever, do not turn of pc.
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September 03, 2023, 06:02:09 AM
#8
I'm going to bet it was just some server glitch or a server migration downtime by whatever server service Theymos is using. The server I personally use — Vultr, frequently has maintenance but little to no downtime.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is there even a reason for anyone to DDoS Bitcointalk knowing that there is no other close competitor anyway? Lol.
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September 03, 2023, 05:30:09 AM
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I never experienced this maybe do I say I wasn't active at the time it happened, currently is working fine on my ending sometime it could be network issues.
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September 03, 2023, 04:30:32 AM
#6
Any reasons, Server glitches or DDOS attack  Huh
Could be either, could also be due to an update on the server. To be certain what caused the downtime, the admin will have to reply and give us a hint.

- Jay -

Server updates only cause a few minutes downtime like 5 minutes. Unless it is Windows.
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September 03, 2023, 04:14:49 AM
#5
Bitcointalk was down for around 10 mins or so. Did anyone noticed?  Any reasons, Server glitches or DDOS attack  Huh

This time I didn't noticed , maybe issue resolved quickly. possible reason is update or DDOS attack. Last time forum down for more than hours happen on 19 may this year.

it was down for everyone for 3 hours and 8 minutes.
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September 03, 2023, 03:31:35 AM
#4
Any reasons, Server glitches or DDOS attack  Huh
Could be either, could also be due to an update on the server. To be certain what caused the downtime, the admin will have to reply and give us a hint.

- Jay -
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September 03, 2023, 03:11:56 AM
#3
Yes, I noticed it about like 50 minutes ago or so?

I usually take a look at the forum before logging in and start writing and this happened to me a short while ago. But it didn't last long as you both say, the next time I tried I was able to read the forum.
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September 03, 2023, 02:25:18 AM
#2
I noticed this but it was less than 10 minutes, I checked Show unread posts since last visit. The time difference between OmegaStarScream and Latviand's comment was 7 minutes, bitcointalk was down for less than 7 minutes.

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September 03, 2023, 02:21:24 AM
#1
Bitcointalk was down for around 10 mins or so. Did anyone noticed?  Any reasons, Server glitches or DDOS attack  Huh

I also confirmed from downforeveryoneorjustme to be sure the problem was not at my end.

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