# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/201 "2016-04-24T20:08:59Z")
Seems like everything is good now, and it looks like those funky URLs are gone. I haven’t tried Tapatalk yet. ETA: I just tried Tapatalk and it showed no threads either subscribed or participated. I logged out and back in and now it looks like everything’s back to normal. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/202 "2016-04-24T22:00:11Z")
URLs look normal again, and “last read” is now behaving correctly. My world is right again. ---
**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, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/203 "2016-04-24T22:09:14Z")
Okay, now that we’re back to normal, I’ll say what I didn’t say before: cookies were not being set. They replaced the session cookie with that weird URL, but apparently didn’t keep accessing all the other cookies. My suggestion was going to be that they could keep using the weird URL, but use the other cookies. But then I was concerned that maybe using cookies was how the attacker got into the system–that maybe there was an exploit they used. So I kept my mouth shut. Now that cookies are back, I know that wasn’t the case. Still think adding that one line for mobile would be a good idea, though. Give people an alternative. And it’s just a shame that the site that is so close to being mobile friendly. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/204 "2016-04-24T23:56:22Z")
Just wanted to report that, as far as I can tell, all Tapatalk systems look good to go from here. Thanks, guys! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/205 "2016-04-25T00:10:38Z")
I’m aliiiiiiive! ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/206 "2016-04-25T02:35:45Z")
FWIW, I got locked out of my work account at about the same time, same problem; too many wrong password attempts. If my phone was the portal, I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/207 "2016-04-25T02:36:42Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I’m aliiiiiiive! No, you’re not. You’ll be stone dead in just a minute. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/208 "2016-04-25T02:54:47Z")
Can we have your liver, then? ---
**Author:** ![Francis\_Vaughan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/francis_vaughan/32/3093_2.png) [@Francis\_Vaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_Vaughan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/209 "2016-04-25T03:43:04Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Still think adding that one line for mobile would be a good idea, though. Give people an alternative. And it’s just a shame that the site that is so close to being mobile friendly. Indeed. This is posted from my iPhone via Safari. The site is _almost_ perfectly usable without Tapatalk. Just a little painful to use. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843.md?page=10)