Broken Inbox.

Anyone else having problems with their messages? I went to reference some info received from another member, and found a message (with quoted response) that I never received OR sent. It turns out, all the messages in my Inbox contain this same message.

Alright, no worries. I still wanted that info, so I fell back in my contingency plan. I don't delete very many messages, and save "sent items" as well. I also intentionally leave the quoted text when I respond to a message; that way I still have a copy of what they said to me knocking around. I do this for two reasons: I'm a tad bit forgetful some days, and as a redundancy in case of some sort of system error/malfunction.

Problem. Every single message saved in my "sent items" folder also contains this message. AND it has another member as the sender for all of them.

I cannot take screenshots with my current version of Chrome for android, but I can "print..." and save it as a pdf. So hopefully I can upload it to this, and y'all will see what I'm talking about.

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Well, that isn't exactly how I see the site, but at least you get an idea of the problem. Now that I know it works, I hust need to tweek the options next time I save it.

My inbox is composed of straight lines - can't click on anything.

Not related to font size, tried changing a few things and is illegible.

That means I'm not the only one with inbox related problems.

Which begs the question: Who hacked our toaster??

My inbox now is a Black box, cant see anything in it.

Ditto, obviously the forum messaging software is broken. I would assume, now that we've brought it to their attention, that the PTB will address the issue.

I sent Ivan a message on FB hope he sees it, if he is not aware already.

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Originally Posted by Phrank

My inbox is composed of straight lines - can't click on anything.

Not related to font size, tried changing a few things and is illegible.

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Same with envelopes st the left of the line

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Originally Posted by mainaman

I sent Ivan a message on FB hope he sees it, if he is not aware already.

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Why didn't you just send him a P.M?

I guess at this point there is no point in me looking in my inbox. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Standing by.

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Originally Posted by edhewitt

Why didn't you just send him a P.M?

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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....

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.

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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....

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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?

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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?

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1: Could be a disgruntled, banned former member? :shrug:

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

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