aveschapinas Posted November 23, 2022 Author Share Posted November 23, 2022 Yes, thank you Kevin and thanks everyone for reporting it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 @aveschapinascertainly deserves a lot of credit. Not only does she take care of many of the spammers, but is doing all the correspondence with @Administrator. 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 @aveschapinas / @Kevin, someone knocked over the canned pork again. Thanks for your efforts! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aveschapinas Posted November 26, 2022 Author Share Posted November 26, 2022 34 minutes ago, Charlie Spencer said: @aveschapinas / @Kevin, someone knocked over the canned pork again. Thanks for your efforts! Burp... 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 @aveschapinas/ @Kevin, spammers from about an hour ago. Thanks. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 16 minutes ago, Birds are cool said: @aveschapinas/ @Kevin, spammers from about an hour ago. Thanks. Got them. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Woohoo! It’s back! 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Thanks to all involved with the latest resuscitation! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aveschapinas Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share Posted December 4, 2022 Yes, sorry! I wasn't able to get on but I reported the outage to the admin. Glad we're back up and running! 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonestranger Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Looks like there's some selective blockage going on when it comes to accessing the Forums. I wasn't able to access the site for the past few hours while others appear to have had no problems at all. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aveschapinas Posted December 7, 2022 Author Share Posted December 7, 2022 18 minutes ago, lonestranger said: Looks like there's some selective blockage going on when it comes to accessing the Forums. I wasn't able to access the site for the past few hours while others appear to have had no problems at all. I couldn't get in early this morning but later was able to. Hopefully it will be OK from now on. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulK Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Just had some intermittent bad gateway stuff, and then a site not found from the hosting service. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Yep, same here forums.whatbird.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed. Error code: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 (edited) https://forums.whatbird.com/ is unavailable but eg. https://forums.whatbird.com/index.php?/forum/16-general-birding-topics/ still is, right now at any rate. and https://forums.whatbird.com/index.php is still accessible. Edited December 8, 2022 by Peromyscus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 https://forums.whatbird.com/ is now available for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aveschapinas Posted December 9, 2022 Author Share Posted December 9, 2022 It all looks normal to me now; sorry I wasn't around earlier. Let me know if there are any more problems. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirVive Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Not sure how much was the actual outage and how much was my browser acting up afterwards but I haven't been able to get on for a long time. At first it just wouldn't load, then I got redirected to a godaddy site that said the site was available or parked and eventually got this page .... that didn't clear until today when I tried getting to the homepage through a Google search yet again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonestranger Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 I'm not sure what the problem is, but it obviously varies from person to person. I couldn't connect for 3-4 hours in the morning on Wednesday Dec 7th but @Charlie Spencer confirmed through email at the time that he was connected and everything seemed to be working normally for him. Later that morning, in a different location, Charlie told me that he could still connect through his phone's cellular data but couldn't connect with his tablet through the local wifi. Besides the obvious crashes when everyone is denied access, it seems like some people have short interruptions on a regular basis, like I do, and just wait it out for a few minutes/hours. Others appear to be unable to connect for days/weeks at a time, while some members continue to use the site as if nothing is wrong. When I tried using a few of those 'Is it Up or Down' type websites, I would get mixed results with some saying that forums.whatbird.com was up and running while other connection testing websites would say it was down. Makes it really hard to determine if the problem is on my end or the Forums when some websites, and members, say the Forums are working normal when I can't access the site. Anyways, I think it's worth noting that the site might be accessible to most people, but might still be unaccessible to many others. If a member(s) can't get on the Forums when others can, you might think the problem is simply with the individual member(s) that can't connect, I'm not convinced that's the case. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aveschapinas Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 The Whatbird site is down and has been for a while - I think about a month now. Work is being done but Admin has told me it will take a while still. The main site was attacked. Both that and the forums are being moved to a new host; that process has been completed for the forums as of Wednesday. I'm not sure if it's completed or still in process for the main site. So, if you're trying to get to the forums through the main Whatbird.com site, you won't be able to because the main site is down. But if you enter through forums.whatbird.com hopefully you'll be able to get on. Admin feels that the new host will be more stable and there should be fewer outages. If anyone has been unable to get to the forums directly with forums.whatbird.com since Thursday please let me know. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aveschapinas Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 9 hours ago, SirVive said: Not sure how much was the actual outage and how much was my browser acting up afterwards but I haven't been able to get on for a long time. At first it just wouldn't load, then I got redirected to a godaddy site that said the site was available or parked and eventually got this page .... that didn't clear until today when I tried getting to the homepage through a Google search yet again. This page is "legit"; the admins put it up while they continue to work on the main site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonestranger Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 9 minutes ago, aveschapinas said: If anyone has been unable to get to the forums directly with forums.whatbird.com since Thursday please let me know. I had one Not Found type notice on Thursday but I connected again just a few minutes later. That was the most recent interruption I've had. I always use forums.whatbird.com to access the forums, and seldom close the tab on my browser on either my cell phone, or on the computer, so it's not like I am trying to get to the site as much as I am being kicked off the site when I change topics. I'll keep you posted if there's another interruption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 1 hour ago, lonestranger said: When I tried using a few of those 'Is it Up or Down' type websites, I would get mixed results with some saying that forums.whatbird.com was up and running while other connection testing websites would say it was down. Makes it really hard to determine if the problem is on my end or the Forums when some websites, and members, say the Forums are working normal when I can't access the site. This sounds like a DNS issue. Each Internet company has its own servers. When you type a web address, your Internet company's DNS servers look up the numbers that are the 'real' address. Some companies's servers may be having DNS problems. That's why some of us can connect and others can't. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aveschapinas Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 1 hour ago, lonestranger said: I had one Not Found type notice on Thursday but I connected again just a few minutes later. That was the most recent interruption I've had. I always use forums.whatbird.com to access the forums, and seldom close the tab on my browser on either my cell phone, or on the computer, so it's not like I am trying to get to the site as much as I am being kicked off the site when I change topics. I'll keep you posted if there's another interruption. OK. I access them the same way but rarely on my cell phone, and I was unable to get in for a while on Wednesday morning. I haven't beek kicked off, though. If problems continue I'll alert the admin but for now I'm assuming it may have been related to the work done on the site. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Everything is working fine for me except for the ID forum. I can only get through to it on my iPad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 I can get on everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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