Bitcoin Forum

I got this error (only once twice):

But I've also seen MY MESSAGES totally empty until a reload, and loading most pages takes quite a while. Does the server need some TLC?

True, the speed has noticeably been slow this morning even when replying posts.

I just got this error message a few moments back.

https://i.imgur.com/cpG3WA7.png

theymos got a wicked hangover after partying all night with the mods from the Russian section

It's slow to post for me.  Actually, browsing is slow as well.

This forum normally functions very well.   Anyone know the hardware specs of the database server?

If you guys are talking about right now then in my side I am having lightning speed :-P

Are you going to buy some bandwidth and additional storage for us :-D

For the last couple hours browsing, posting and what not have been super slow with the occasional return to normal speeds much like right now. I haven't had any error messages though

Came here looking for this.

Got about 10 of these when trying to access multiple pages at once.

Posting is slow af as well. Seems to be slowly improving over the last hour tho.

I haven't got any error so far but it is slow on posting & browsing from my location.

Somebody is DDOS'ing the shit out of the forum. It is not just today. Almost every day for a very long time, every time I click the "post" button either it takes long ass time to post or double posts. Today it became unbearable it lags so much even when browsing.

The website is working very slow, but I don't get any error.

I remember there was a same problem in 2017 bull run. That time I got error every minute.


And that was why Theymos decided to use Cloudflare.


Edit:
Got this error few seconds ago.
"Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later."

It's still going on. On top of that, it went down for me more than 15 times in the past half an hour now. The browsing and posting experience is fairly slow and I am constantly receiving the "Connection Problems" message. Considering the fact that the frontend is hosted on Cloudflare, is someone attacking the database server?

Reporting the same thing.
Everything is super slow... opening topics, posting, sending merits...
I hope this can be fixed soon

I'm not sure how the system is designed but the database server shouldn't be open to such an attack.

And regarding Ddos, I'm no specialist regarding Cloudflare but this shouldn't be happening during an actual attack. The DDos shouldn't hit the actual server, but Cloudflare's

Okay guys, I am taking off whatever I said before LOL
I join the party :-P
https://i.imgur.com/5aMGymy.png

same here
who is :
btcnfan (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2345460)
froastie (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2350037)
randomnessie (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2345485)
bcfan (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2345453)
micey (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2350029)
liliam (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2350009)
Saw them on most time online : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

I have a problem with this error^[1], it lasted for several months unresolved so I thought it was a normal problem.
Yesterday I got some mistakes related to 422 Errors.
This morning (GMT+4) I had a lot of problems surfing the site but now all the problems have disappeared & the site is running slowly. "There are no errors"
Perhaps it is DDos attacks or related to another thing which will be public on Tuesday^[2].

[1] Session verification failed error | Brave shields (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5175009.msg52145779#msg52145779)
[2]

Started getting this about 15-30 minutes ago also. No clue what it is and I'm not going to speculate, I don't think it fuels constructive conversations to have everyone go "it's a DDoS/could be a DDoS" any time the server has issues. We'll find out soon enough anyway.

Is there an IRC chat or something similar for Bitcointalk discussion when the server goes down?

It's not something new. These users have been always the most online users. I don't know what's the problem with the stats. They have been online more than age of the forum.

I think it's a DDoS.
Maybe attackers are trying to make trouble for the forum on its 10th anniversary.
Theymos will likely make a post regarding the issue soon.

I believe there was a channel on Freenode like 6 years ago but it must be deprecated by now. Not many people use IRC anymore, it's all Discord and Telegram nowadays.

https://deathwing.me/i/zFKAz.png

Spooky.

https://i.gyazo.com/7b8fd37176bdb376b9880efa44e077ec.png

I've got the same thing going on also. I wonder if it's due to something failing or if it's intentional to reduce the load put on the server.

Had the "Connection Problems" error page just now. No clue as to why the forum's acting up.

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I assume failing. IIRC most static assets should be cached and served by Cloudflare, especially for the non-changing SMF forum UI elements. I assume that after the cache expired and Cloudflare failed to load the assets, it just dropped errors for those requests. You should be able to check the network tab on your browser (on Firefox: right mouse button, letter Q, select "Network", refresh page) to see if any of those requests are returning error codes.

I was having this problem for last 1 hour or so. Anyways i have found a solution to this.  
Press CTRL + F5 and the page will load normally.

LOL. 

I've been getting the same message for the past couple of hours, though I was just able to post something a minute ago.  Ah well, this happens from time to time--no big deal.

I half expected that when the forum came back online the new forum software would have been rolled out and I'd be viewing a completely different version of bitcointalk.  Sadly, not to be.

Hmm.  That could be and if not it certainly is quite a coincidence.

Why this error ? Is theymos making any update?
I have been faced this problem since 2 hours.
https://i.postimg.cc/DZpHLrnR/IMG-20191020-194835.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/8k4MBTJd/IMG-20191020-200502.jpg

I just got access to the forum again after some tries earlier, seems the distress and maintenance is over?

The watch list page shows this for me every time:


And I’m constantly getting a Gateway error from Cloud Flare. That’s the first first time I got into the forum in a while.

the number and quality of art submissions were too much that bitcointalk's graphic card blew up trying to process them all.

A hardware issue was degrading performance. The downtime ~6 hours ago may have been due to this alone, or a DDoS attack may have pushed it over the edge; I'm not sure. (I see some unusual traffic in the logs, but it doesn't look that extreme, and it may have been a side-effect of the slowness.) I think that I fixed the performance issue now, at least.

it seems the MT has over but there is still a few parts that not load properly like avatar, symbols, and others
example:
https://i.imgur.com/Wdh7Ihi.png  https://i.imgur.com/mcfBT4n.png

Glad that's it's back I have to use Privazer to check if it is about my cookies and also check various downorjustme similar sites I found out that they are not accurate because Bitcointalk is really down but on their list, it's up all five of those server checkers

About an hour ago or so, I did capture an error message that I’ve not seen reported before: Error #2024859659 (it occurred when trying to follow a link to a given thread). Posting it just in case it’s any use.

Neither CTRL+Shift+R or CTRL+F5 fixes it for me, and I don't want to keep performing hard reloads and possibly increasing the strain (even if it's a negligible effect). It's not a huge deal, just looks pretty ugly.

Probably should be a bad and stronger DDOS since the whole forum is acting too strangely for quite some time. I don't get either the online status and also the rank coins are totally empty and displaying it as '*****' for Legendary users. The new post icon at the left side of each board is not being displayed but on the other hand the forum doesn't take a very longer time to load each page. Mainly the icons and smileys are missing from all the pages and are being replaced with text.  :(

may have improved, and a few minutes ago I could not access at all.

it's just that the current appearance is a little more strange.

https://i.imgur.com/C27wr8G.png

I'm not getting most of icons and images on the forum. Clearing cookies doesn't help. Though I'm not having any other significant issues for navigation.
Externally hosted images display correctly. Maybe the forum is going through some minor upgrades and we are to see some changes on the occasion of 10th Anniversary.

I still look like this: http://prntscr.com/plui53

I'm assuming this is theymos' attempt at art. In all seriousness, I'm guessing this current layout issues is due to editing some code, and temporarily breaking something?

Somebody has been playing to much or scary humanrishfoundation rage revenge strikes back  :o
Anyway it is not funny at all.

Probably, the performance seems a lot better now. The site is snappy and I can easily change from page to page without any problems. Nevertheless, I think theymos changed a few settings to fix the database load problem which probably messed up some theme settings on the database so... it basically does not load most of the theme settings, as far as it seems.

My view is a cross between the wap2 one and the main one with most of the images and colouration dead but with normal ish formatting.

It's no longer slow for me. It is definitely a bit buggered.

Your browsers are caching old 50x errors returned by site assets. You can fix it with a hard refresh, or by using a different browser temporarily, or by clearing your cache, or by waiting up to 4 hours. At this point there's nothing I can do on my end to fix it for you, since it's in your browser. (Errors shouldn't be marked cachable, though: something for me to look into.)

Firstly, when I faced the error I thought that theymos trying to make people fool again like April fool. And I still hoping that theymos will make surprised again us.

Anyway, page loading time fixed well but imoji,photos loading did not fixed yet to me.

There is lot more issues i am seeing from my end. In some profile showing PM and Email option above trust area. I don't know that is any modification works going on or not. I think icon images also not loading in many section. Hopefully theymos will take a look to solve these things as soon as possible.

Seems the latter is the best option and to be honest when I wake up as I'm about to sleep I guess this will be over as I can't see my beautiful shiny coins under my username.

https://i.imgur.com/986FQhk.png

This is how my menu looks.
Note that I did clean my browser history.

PS
I would appreciate some option for alternative dark skin, greyish or dark grey.

EDIT:
ctrl+f5 did the trick
thanks @DaMut

Everything looks normal on my end now except the shortcut for bb codes and emojis aren't available. Is it just me?

have you tried click CTRL+F5 before? I have tried it and a few things have changed to normal such as a coin below your rank and else.
try it, it might help you.
keep spamming CTRL+F5, everything will be back to normal.

There is a bit of a issue with the font size other than that everything is normal for me now and that includes bb codes and emojis.

Everything is fine on my android phone. But the forum on windows looks like this on both Chrome and also Firefox:


I deleted cache data on chrome. But it wasn't helpful.
Anyone knows what should I do?

Edit: Solved
I used CTRL+F5 several times. It finally worked.

CTRL+SHIFT+R worked well for me, Does anyone know what happened?

Why did the forum have a database error?

I am still having issues with the images as it is not loading,  the reason is quoted below from what theymos said.

No need to clear browser data. just clear -

Cookies and other site data

Cached images & files

if this still not work Use this link for a hard refresh - https://www.getfilecloud.com/blog/2015/03/tech-tip-how-to-do-hard-refresh-in-browsers/

What sorcery is this? :o I never expected a "maintenance error" to disappear after a hard refresh. Refresh your cache - When hitting F5 just isn't enough! (https://refreshyourcache.com/en/cache/) explained it a bit, and theymos' post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5194399.msg52819865#msg52819865) completed the explanation.
I never knew this is possible.

Can't it be that our browser was caching the "down for maintenance" page? I just got into my PC and the Watchlist page is working (first time I visited it today), but in my phone I still get the same error. So the problem is now in the client.

And I don't know how to clean the browser's cache on Safari. :D

Same to me. Last ≈2 hours I have used my Laptop. But did not face any problems. All are fine as like as normal. But now I am using my mobile phone with chrome browser. Facing some problem like this.

https://i.postimg.cc/mkmVTrqR/IMG-20191021-010501.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/qR0GnnH4/IMG-20191021-010446.jpg

Here is the guide (http://pch.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/534/~/how-do-i-delete-the-cookies-and-cache-on-my-smart-phone-or-tablet%3F) to delete the cache on Safari.

Click on more button at top right of the page.
Then click on setting.
Go to privacy and then Clear browsing data. You can clear data at any time range.
(I am not sure it is helpful. But hope it works)

Still, from time to time when I try to load new page I see something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/HiVRcFY.png

Maybe this is important for the Admin to know that this is still happening occasionally.

But is enough to refresh using F5, CTRL+Shift+R or CTRL+F5 to got the website loaded properly.

Thanks for all the answers and info provided in this thread.

I had the same loading issue with pictures and smileys. Am using my phone, i just cleaned the cash of my chrome browser and it works fine from my end.
Everything is normally loading.

There was nothing or an problem at my end or something else i have seen or noticed today or the last days !
Sometimes images after posting this dont load but refresh brings them up.
I am using Firefox Browser and got lately no issues with it when i use Bitcointalk .

They always online without do anything post over a years.  ???

Bitcointalk Seems fine and normal right now.

I had a similar error on firefox for mobile, but I made some pancakes and it seemed to go away after that ;D...


Once it went faster again I kinda liked that style, the quotes didn't really work as well but everything else was great (very minimalistic).

Thanks! I did that and BitcoinTalk came back immediately. It was really a cache issue after all.

If anybody is having these issues, clean the cache and data of the browser and try again. It it doesn't work, it will come back soon.

Same, I was wondering why the forum was still "broken" until I used another browser and was puzzled it loaded fine.

I tried once yesterday but it didn't work. I just tried the spamming and it worked ;D

The forum works fine again, theymos has fixed the problems and responded here, so I'm locking this.

Unlocked: the forum is quite slow, and I once again had an empty page instead of MY MESSAGES.

I can get around the main site fine but opening my messages just now was excessively slow. I'm not noticing any slowness anywhere else on the forum though, so it could easily be a hiccup and not really represent any real issues. Or perhaps we're just imagining it and this is completely normal nowadays :')