Forum Outages
Wuerfel_21
Posts: 5,377
The forums seem to be experiencing some major downtime lately!
Anyone have an idea what's going on?
Wuerfel_21
Posts: 5,377
The forums seem to be experiencing some major downtime lately!
Anyone have an idea what's going on?
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I fear some people might give up on Parallax if this carries on.
Seems like some security settings in AWS that didn't agree with themselves after upgrading themselves.
Jeff is working on it with some AWS engineers. I'd guess it's related to some legacy settings that no one knows about and no one seems to be able to find, but they no doubt will soon
Could also be partially sketchy traffic related; For example, we had >18000 hits on the OBEX server last Thursday afternoon which wasn't ideal and I had to add some "stuff" to deal with that and keep it responsive. I suspect the learn and forum sites are seeing something similar. The traffic I can see on OBEX has been mental the last week, - someone or something (AI?) is downloading lots of stuff over and over. Though they are throttled to a calm Sunday afternoon pace now
I don't know if this is related, but it was just reposted by a former Parallax employee who is now working in a critical role at one of our country's security organizations.
Thought they might be upgrading the forum software... Guess not. Suppose that's good news.
Was a good test to see if I'm addicted to P2 forum or not...
Btw: was wondering about emergency alternatives …
Not completely sure how Discord works, but is there a P2 discord group?
Seem to recall something about that…
Yes, it's here: https://discord.com/invite/9TkW8jD
No one knows how Discord works, they keep changing it. Now they're trying to sell you ＴＨＥ ＯＲＢ or whatever. But alas, they killed off casual IRC, so it's what'll need to do for now.