# Giraffe Board is down
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 1, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441 "2012-03-01T14:06:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/1 "2012-03-01T14:06:37Z")
Looks like it might be an expiry issue again, just like [last year](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=599138)?
---
### Author:  [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/2 "2012-03-01T14:11:22Z")
Thanks\*\* Rebo\*\*!
downforeveryoneorjustme told me that it was me, and I was stressing.
I can relax now.
---
### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/3 "2012-03-01T14:16:04Z")
I’ve emailed Giraffe and Fenris.
---
### Author:  [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/4 "2012-03-01T14:18:12Z")
I did the same … I hope they get it up and going soon … I thought it was hacked though?
---
### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/5 "2012-03-01T14:27:44Z")
[Mellophant](http://www.mellophant.com/forums/index.php) is working fine as usual _ECHO ECHO ECHO ECHO_
---
### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/6 "2012-03-01T14:32:16Z")
I’m actually over there reading an old thread about merging DoMeBo and Giraffe Boards.
😉
---
### Author:  [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/7 "2012-03-01T14:33:23Z")
It was prolly 'leet hackez from mellophant that did the hacking! 😉
---
### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/8 "2012-03-01T14:40:14Z")
> [@Rebo](#):
>
> I’ve emailed Giraffe and Fenris.
I got no info. I’m out of the loop…
However, when I hit the page, I get the message
“by nr\_elove”
(Binary Love. Geddit? :rolleyes: )
Anyway, putting by nr\_elove into Google, seems like he/they/it are Saudi Hacker(s). I’m not all “AAAAH!! WE’VE BEEN HAXXORED!! :eek:”, but…I guess it’s possible we were.
If so, I blame…oh…let’s say GFactor and Idle Thoughts.
😉
---
### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/9 "2012-03-01T14:51:56Z")
So fix it, smiley man!
---
### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/10 "2012-03-01T14:52:15Z")
> [@Oliveritaly](#):
>
> It was prolly 'leet hackez from mellophant that did the hacking! 😉
You thought it was over! MWAH! 🙂
---
### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/11 "2012-03-01T14:53:24Z")
> [@Rebo](#):
>
> So fix it, smiley man!
Hey, I just add smilies and randomly create forums. Giraffe does the heavy lifting.
---
### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/12 "2012-03-01T14:54:07Z")
Thank you SDMB for being a temporary haven for us Gweebers. I’ll try not to get stains on the furniture.
---
### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/13 "2012-03-01T14:54:10Z")
Have you been in contact with him? He’s usually on in the mornings, right?
---
### Author:  [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/14 "2012-03-01T14:56:39Z")
That’s lame. If it’s gonna be hacked it should have at least been Anonymous or someone else noteworthy :mad:
---
### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/15 "2012-03-01T14:57:11Z")
It looks like nr\_elove makes a hobby of this sort of thing. [From the snackpit.](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-got-hacked-1) Just looking at the URL, my guess is that he got into cpanel and changed the redirect to point to that message (and then changed the cpanel password ✊). I’m guessing/hoping that the main database is fine, and once we change the redirect back the board will be the same as before. If not, I made a full offsite backup 1-2 weeks ago, so even if URLjet isn’t keeping the regular backups they’re supposed to be keeping, we’re not going to lose much.
I’ve got a high priority ticket into URLjet right now, hopefully things will be back up shortly.
---
### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/16 "2012-03-01T15:03:44Z")
Thanks for the info, G-Man.
---
### Author:  [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/17 "2012-03-01T15:10:22Z")
Hurry back Giraffe I was loving the Fenris intervention …
---
### Author:  [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/18 "2012-03-01T15:13:23Z")
It’s all fixed (for me anyway)
---
### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/19 "2012-03-01T15:16:16Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#):
>
> It’s all fixed (for me anyway)
Yes, it appears to be back up and no worse the wear. No worse than usual, anyway.
If you’re still getting the nr\_elove message, odds are you’re refreshing the cgi-sys/suspended.cgi page – go directly to [http://www.giraffeboards.com](http://www.giraffeboards.com) and it should work.
---
### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441/20 "2012-03-01T18:54:30Z")
Since the issue has been resolved, I’ll close this.
[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giraffe-board-is-down/614441.md?page=2)