# Info about the outage **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 22, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843 "2016-04-22T19:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/181 "2016-04-24T04:01:34Z")
I keep reading “outage” as “outrage.” Anyone else having this problem? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/182 "2016-04-24T04:13:20Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I keep reading “outage” as “outrage.” Anyone else having this problem? In this instance, I do not see that as a problem! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/183 "2016-04-24T05:09:26Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I keep reading “outage” as “outrage.” Anyone else having this problem? Yep ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/184 "2016-04-24T06:37:25Z")
One thing I can say–if we can’t get Tapatalk working right again, it’s really, really, really easy to make this site mobile friendly. It’s already rather dynamic. It just needs a single line of HTML to tell mobile web browser that it would work as mobile site (instead of it mimicking a desktop browser.) \ On some phones in portrait mode, part of the most recent post in a forum on the forum list can get cut off, but it’s there in landscape. Only problem is that you still get logged out all the time. Edit: well, unless you add a line of code that can’t be wordwrapped, like I did. I think I fixed it. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/185 "2016-04-24T07:56:16Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > It looks like Colibri, or someone impersonating him, created Colibri2 then. For the record, that was me in an attempt to log on, not an impersonator. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/186 "2016-04-24T11:18:08Z")
Sock puppet. Ban him. No excuses. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/187 "2016-04-24T11:29:12Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Enipla back. Posting from resort in Animal mexico on tablet that came with the room. Nice place. Akumal? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/188 "2016-04-24T12:01:13Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > For the record, that was me in an attempt to log on, not an impersonator. On the Internet, no one knows if you’re an impersonator. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/189 "2016-04-24T12:10:28Z")
[quote=“Monty, post:179, topic:752843”] I am curious as to the “Big 6” questions regarding the outage: [ol][li]Who was behind it?[/li][li]What occasioned the SDMB being the target?[/li][li]When did it begin?[/li][li]Why would someone do this?[/li][li]Where are those bastards who did this?[/li][li]How can the SDMB prevent further attacks but without inconveniencing the users?Bonus question: Is there any chance that one of the miscreants who participated in the attack will face justice?[/ol][/li][/QUOTE] Good questions, all, but… We need to first establish if it was really an attack, not a misconfiguration, malfunction, or accident of some kind. For example, you could ask those same questions about the Marley Big Ban, but all it would be is outage outrage. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/190 "2016-04-24T13:00:48Z")
Test, test. Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/191 "2016-04-24T14:52:57Z")
I was able to log in successfully yesterday in the morning, but for the rest of the day, I got the old ‘you’ve tried to log in too many times, so fuck off for 15 minutes’…or something to that effect. Then this morning, I got a previously not seen error 'The request could not be satisfied. Cloudfront attempted to establish a connection with the origin, but either the attempt failed or the origin closed the connection." p.s. This is not a complaint; I am just relaying symptoms, for the poor tech bastard who is tasked with fixing this problem. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/192 "2016-04-24T14:53:43Z")
I’m probably saying something you already knew, but things are _very_ slow. It can take a minute or more for a response to a request, and I’m getting frequent 503 errors. I checked to make sure, and the connection from my end is working just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/193 "2016-04-24T15:06:12Z")
I’m getting all sorts of server errors now. Seems to be getting much worse. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/194 "2016-04-24T15:42:57Z")
yup. all sorts of problems right now. Good luck in fixing it, guys. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/195 "2016-04-24T17:00:32Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Enipla back. Posting from resort in Animal mexico on tablet that came with the room. Nice place. You found my tablet. Please ship it home to me asap. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/196 "2016-04-24T18:31:57Z")
I don’t know how other people are finding it, but I’m finding I’m staying logged in now. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/197 "2016-04-24T18:36:54Z")
Yep, seems to be working for me except for Tapatalk. The SDMB tech wizards rock. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/198 "2016-04-24T18:37:50Z")
I’m staying logged in on my computer, but get logged off on my kindle whenever I click to another page or thread. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/199 "2016-04-24T19:22:33Z")
Woohoo! I’m staying logged in now, even when using my bookmark to UserCP (as opposed to the link at the top of forum pages.) All is right with the world. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/200 "2016-04-24T20:07:57Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > Yep, seems to be working for me except for Tapatalk. The SDMB tech wizards rock. I spoke about an hour too soon. Tapatalk working now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843.md?page=11)