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MrHalfAsleep
Community elder
2 days ago

Problems with forum

I have had problems accessing the forum over the last two days; I find myself now able to access posts.  My ID stated that I "didn't exist", nor could I access anything on the forum.  I went surfing the forum in circles,   Under the settings section there are 12 different IP addresses (some internal beginning with 10, others with 81, 82 and one 193).

This leads me to think (ask) of the following:

  • has the forum been hacked?
  • is there a data breach?
  • have I done something wrong or posted stuff that is objectionable?
  • (as mentioned elsewhere) a bug with CloudFlare (as I get the occasional 502 bad gateway error)?
  • is it bugs or errors in the forum software?
  • is it a Windows problem?
  • am I being stupid?
  • all/none of the above.

If it were bugs or errors in the software, I presume they have now been fixed as I can now make posts again.  Any comments, help etc are welcome.  Cheers.