Hi,

We are aware of these 502 errors and we are investigating the reason behind them, we will provide updates as soon as we can.

Thank you
Tech

One of the Hamsters has Covid…

I don’t know if it’s related, but as well as the 502 errors I’ve found the forum reeeeeeeeeeeally slow at times over the last few days.

Not so much slow, as just ignoring me. Click a link, nothing happens except progress bar moves a bit. Get bored with waiting, click link again and it works.

It’s the stock nginx error page. This can mean nginx is misconfigured. In this case, maybe it’s one of the servers in the cluster that’s down, but I’m guessing here because I don’t know how the site is set up.

Not so much slow, as just ignoring me. Click a link, nothing happens except progress bar moves a bit. Get bored with waiting, click link again and it works.

That’s a classic symptom of one server in a cluster being down. The load balancer hasn’t figured it out yet and sends a proportion of the requests to the dead server.

I blame the Ukraine thread…

It’s DDOS related. Looks like we have been targeted. Still trying to track down the exact source but some temporary fixes are in place so hopefully you should be noticing an improvement.

I can remember the last major one of those!

This time it’s probably a troll farm in Russia getting peevish ‘cos we keep ripping the piss out of Putin!

Gateway gone bad innit.

It’s more likely to be someone on one of the politics threads has realised they’re losing the argument (with themselves) so trying to bring the site down before they have to concede

Here, what’s happened to the little forum icon on the left?
Hitting the 6 dots top right brings up the left icon bar, and today the forum icon has gone.

I am the GATEKEEPER

Who ya gonna call?

Busta

Should have used plexiglass instead of the real stuff