System Crash 2021/08/20 or, Oops, we did it again!

[letterboy]

 

[letterboy]

Pdfs...

 

[deeper thoughts]

try again?

Ok thnx

 

[dmaziuk]

interestingly, now when I hit "community" after logging in, I get server error and have to hit "community" again

 

[Miyaru]

interestingly, now when I hit "community" after logging in, I get server error and have to hit "community" again

I see the same. Deleting all cookies seems to work, but if I do I might never find my way out of this cave...

 

[The Chairman]

Deleting all cookies seems to work,

Cookies are both friend and foe. Toss them regularly. If you can, have them deleted when you leave a site. An easy way to do it for most browsers is to hold down both Ctrl and Alt keys while clicking on the refresh icon n the upper left of your browser. Cookies were invented when the internet was slow as a way to cache elements of a website on your PC to help pages load faster as well as reduce server loads. Of course, @Miyaru knows all this and I'm simply trying to edumacate the rest of our users!

 

[buddhasummer]

Messages playing up again. People get emails advising new messages but when follow link there is no message and although messages have been sent. Any ideas? Thank you.

@Miyaru thank you.

 

[Miyaru]

Until after the weekend there's the possibility of more email outages, but as a backup we have been using pigeons. The bad news is that several pigeons are currently unaccounted for, likely caused by the volcanic eruptions in La Palma and Iceland. Poor pigeons

 

[buddhasummer]

Cool. Then it's all under control. Cheers.

 

[The Chairman]

Then it's all under control.

"Control" is such a loose term.