Thread: Broken Inbox.

Not fixed for me. Now I have the inbox full of nothing but horizontal stripes, as first reported by Phrank.

Additionally, every few minutes, I get a No Data error message of: "err_empty_response". It's like the site is running on half its cylinders, sputtering along.

Feels like a DDoS attack, to me. Somebody needs to get Bruno, or whomever, on the horn. I don't even have their e-mail addresses.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Hahaha...because the inbox is virtually unreadable and unusable...I couldn't send a PM or even read a message.

Seems to be fixed now....

Funny, aren't I 😛

Every time I get the No Data Received message, I open a new tab and go to another, easy to check website, just to make sure it isn't because I'm on my phone. The other website loads quickly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deni...service_attack

If someone was going to do this then my first question would be why target a shaving forum? Then my second would be if someone was targeting a shaving forum, why the personal message section only?

Originally Posted by edhewitt

If someone was going to do this then my first question would be why target a shaving forum? Then my second would be if someone was targeting a shaving forum, why the personal message section only?

1: Could be a disgruntled, banned former member?

2: It's not just the messaging system, that just happens to be the most obvious system failure. I also mentioned that SRP as a whole is intermittent, for me. Why the message system as the first casualty? Probably much lower on the priority list. As it is not a core/necessary process for the functionality of the forum, it would be one of the last things that the system would try to process during a time of abnormally high resource usage.

Just like a year or two ago, when some script kiddies kept Xbox Live offline/unusable for the better part of the holiday season. If Microsoft managed to get the service back online, the "social" functions were among the last things to come back online. One of the first things was streaming. So if multiplayer was still down, you could still YouTube/Netflix.

Okay, the site is back up. What was the deal? Any clues?

Avatar issue is also fixed, post maintenance work.

First, disrupt their communications; then send in "Walrus Team Six" !!