I wrote on the Forum Tech. Assistance on December 12th about  the problem. Tim asked me to send a screen shot of the error page to him at his e-mail address. I did and I haven't heard from him since. 

Stay safe. 

Jim 

It's the Y2K bug 123123 variant 

Tojo72

Now it seems to be moving again,but for how long. 

Like the end title in a 50s sci-fi movie, Tojo!

"The End?"

Now it seems to be moving again,but for how long.

There's definitely something slowing down performance.  Even just the login process is taking minutes to complete (from the time I get the login popup, enter my credentials and submit, to the forum index page loading).  Moving from page to page, opening threads and posts, saving replies are all taking 1 to 2 minutes to complete, when just last week, these operations all completed in seconds.

For anyone in support, the console shows error 504 and err_blocked_by_client as I move around through the forum.

MJames70

There are almost no posts any day even when the site is working more or less like it's supposed to be. And this is supposedly the 'busy' season for modeling. Been swirling the drain for a while here. Print magazines and dedicated online forums have been dying for a while. I think it's only a matter of time before the Kalmbach group joins many others. 

 

As soon as it hiccups with the error message (I just got one a moment ago), I usually just move onto another site like any number of the face book modeling groups.

There are almost no posts any day even when the site is working more or less like it's supposed to be. And this is supposedly the 'busy' season for modeling. Been swirling the drain for a while here. Print magazines and dedicated online forums have been dying for a while. I think it's only a matter of time before the Kalmbach group joins many others. 

Mods,please do something about this,or at least let us know it is being worked on,there are almost no posts today,and no wonder,it takes too long to do anything,if not corrected,this is finally gonna kill off this place 

I'll add that my own workaround has been to refresh the page till a call goes through and it loads successfully.

But yeah, it's inconvenient, it limits access and use of the forum, and hopefully Kalmbach follows up quickly to resolve it.

GAF

 

Aggieman

I'm a software engineer by trade, so this is something that I've seen before.  This could be a DDoS issue (which is Distributed Denial of Service).  Not saying that is 100% certain but is a possibility.

 

Never underestimate the vindictiveness of a forum ex-member.

 

Aggieman

I'm a software engineer by trade, so this is something that I've seen before.  This could be a DDoS issue (which is Distributed Denial of Service).  Not saying that is 100% certain but is a possibility.

Never underestimate the vindictiveness of a forum ex-member.

Rob Gronovius

I've beeb having the same issues. I thought it was on my end.

 

I've beeb having the same issues. I thought it was on my end.

Well, since the staff is all off on the holiday weekend, I doubt any fixes will come in before sometime Tuesday morning at the soonest when they all come back in to the office.

The real question is who would bother with a denial of service attack on a low traffic website of a struggling print magazine? It is far more likely one of the many glitches that have plagued this website for years that Kalmbach does not have the people, money, or concern to fix that are responsible, rather than mysterious hackers.

Yeah, it's been bad since Friday, but today has been horrible.

Hello!

Yeah, I've noticed this too. While it didn't keep me from reaqding the forums, it made that reading very slow and uncomfortable. Someimes I have to reload once or twice before I can read what I wanted. Sad thing - I don't see it fixed before tuesday, and even then I wouldn't bet a lot of money on it...

Happy new year, everybody!

Paweł