# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/121 "2016-04-23T05:00:34Z")
Yet another annoyance: Not only am I getting logged out, but it appears that every login session has a different hash or whatever it is. The result is that the URLs are different every time. I like to use the differently-colored visited links to see at a glance which threads I’ve opened before, but I can’t do that now. ---
**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 23, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/122 "2016-04-23T05:13:36Z")
Yes. The difference in URLs has the potential for a number of annoyances. I also wonder what will happen when someone copies a link to a thread here and then posts it on another website. Will the link remain valid over time? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/123 "2016-04-23T05:28:08Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@GuanoLad](#): > > > > The worst part was the not knowing. There needs to be a range of places where we can get info - Twitter, Facebook, Google+, the Giraffe Boards, somewhere anyone can access just to be informed. > > I tried Twitter–various hashtags-- but only reached one person from the board, CCitizen. Also tweeted @Str8dope\_com but no reply. Finally found the FB group. Second or third this. The Twitter account @Str8dope\_com is the one from the [Straightdope.com](http://Straightdope.com) homepage and is used for official tweets, but the last one from there is from six months ago. It would have been helpful if Ed or someone else in charge had sent a tweet from that account explaining the problem. And getting constantly logged out is annoying. Please try to find a fix for that. ---
**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 23, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/124 "2016-04-23T05:28:31Z")
I had a dozen or so threads that came up when I clicked on User CP. I logged out, then logged back in, getting a different string in the URL, and now User CP returns “There are no subscribed threads to display in this folder for this time period.” So now I’ve lost track of all the threads I was participating in! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/125 "2016-04-23T07:19:47Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > SDMB MIRV ICBM attack on the scumbags, ideally… You know, there was an effort once by organized crime to use ICBMs to take out the homes of criminal informants. You can read all about it on the CIICBMMB. ---
**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 23, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/126 "2016-04-23T07:25:50Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I had a dozen or so threads that came up when I clicked on User CP. I logged out, then logged back in, getting a different string in the URL, and now User CP returns “There are no subscribed threads to display in this folder for this time period.” So now I’ve lost track of all the threads I was participating in! Click the “View All Subscribed Threads” link at the bottom of the empty “no subscribed threads” display to list them all. (The link is inside the blue footer bar.) The most recent threads will be listed first. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/127 "2016-04-23T08:12:45Z")
Oops…sorry about that. Spilled a little coffee on my keyboard yesterday…then _kablooey_, the SDMB goes down for the count. :o Apparently it knocked out the NSA, too. I’m switching to decaf. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/128 "2016-04-23T08:21:28Z")
yeah this hole log in log you out thing is getting annoying and frustrating. Tibby, daaaaaayum, can I have some of that coffee please? ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/129 "2016-04-23T08:31:45Z")
> [@guestchaz](#): > > yeah this hole log in log you out thing is getting annoying and frustrating. > Tibby, daaaaaayum, can I have some of that coffee please? Sure, but you may have more pressing issues to contend with first. The NSA is still down and there are hoards of ISIS troops swarming into the country. Mea culpa :o ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/130 "2016-04-23T08:53:02Z")
Meh, I got the Mrs. who is well armed and “stubborn”, I’ll just hide behind her:D Did anyone know that there is or was a SDMB livejournal? I found it while looking for board info during the outage. wish I’d saved the url now. One of the most recent posts to it was from Opal. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/131 "2016-04-23T09:00:03Z")
> [@guestchaz](#): > > Meh, I got the Mrs. who is well armed and “stubborn”, I’ll just hide behind her:D \ Good idea. I plan to hide behind my daughters, they’re armed with .357 magnum water pistols. ---
**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 23, 2016, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/132 "2016-04-23T09:02:04Z")
Multi-quote still not working. > [@kopek](#): > > I got one of those as well and it wasn’t my IP; I didn’t bother to trace or investigate it at all. The IPs were fake and/or internal to the server, so tracing it would be useless. > [@davidm](#): > > I added a sock earlier (clearly labeled as a sock) in an attempt to get into the board. It appeared to successfully register it, but then I starting getting the same message for that (bad password, too many attempts, wait 15 minutes, etc.). > > Would it be safe to try to log in with it and delete it, or would the software hit me for two different logins from the same IP? I’m not sure you can delete it yourself; I couldn’t find such a function in the CP. Anyway, just email a mod or report a post and tell them what happened. That’s what I did, and they disappeared my sock username along with all my sock posts, leaving not a crumb behind. ---
**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 23, 2016, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/133 "2016-04-23T11:26:30Z")
These posts from **fuzzySock** (goo.gl/cVh31x; post #24) and from **sockyFuzz22** (goo.gl/YK0obJ; post #22) have not been deleted, > [@I had to create this sock just to get through...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/24): > > Same here. I’m outta here. And am reporting myself. and > [@I had to create this sock just to get through...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-to-create-this-sock-just-to-get-through/752842/22): > > Sock, reporting in. And reporting myself to be deleted. Hasta la vista, baby. … in the [thread by **SockyFuzz** , **“I had to create this sock just to get through…”**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=791057). I now count 95 user names including ‘sock’: _paulwysocki or Sockmonkey or Mr Socko or Sock Puppet or SockPuppet or Socks on Shoes onor Sock.Puppit or IwearSocks or MightySockElf or trolling sockpuppet or odd-socks or evilsock or Thea Logica’s Sock Puppet or sockllama or CleanSocks or Sock-o or Sock Munkey or Sockpuppet #1 or sockpuppet307 or sockosis or Pink Socks or Stripysocksor sockgirl or t-keela’s SOCK puppet or torie’s sock puppet or Shoes and Socks or Not a sock or Beige Socks or Sockquatch or socksquatch1 or Greensocks or Sockie McSockman or Never a Sock or Sock of Doom or sockswsandals or Captain Socks or Lt.Socks or Sock Gnome or Sockmunkeyor banthissock or socksech or jgresock or Socke or Sockity McSockity or sock\_muppet or socky or Pith’s Sock The Spammer Test or Sockettuem or Foessockige or mesocks or groovesocks or piratesockmonkey or SockMonkeyLite or smellysocksnake or Matchingsockmissing or sockit2upost or SmellySocks or Sockyfuzz or TokyoBayerSock or Fuzzy Socks or Sockyfuzz2 or fuzzySock or sockyFuzz22 or Socky McSockface or gym sock of krondys or sockylint or Blank Slate’s Sock or Socky Fun Ball or Edzsock or Musicat\_sock or davidm-tempsock-sorry or Maggie the Sockelot or Sock o’Ekers or G0sp3l’s Sock or Chefsock or Sock Formerly Known as Cabbage or SqueegeeSock or MillerSock or Inner Sockler or sockofKimstuor ThelmaLou Is a Sock or Sock Formery Known As Noelq or Sock of Christmas Past or santos l halper’s Sock or Sockie McSockface or ECG\_Sockor Sock2 or Sock or Sario Sock or Rico’s Sock or Sir T-Sock or Inner Sockler2 or Sock!AK84 or simsock or Drunky Smurf sock_ :eek: Many of those socks smell. Dat’sAlotta socks to be cleaned. If the mods are squaring away the sock drawer, I do not envy them this job. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/134 "2016-04-23T11:27:51Z")
Checking in. Got logged in this morning with the password in the “reset password” email that got sent at 3:15am the other night. Then promptly changed it to something new. Haven’t tried with Tapatalk yet, need to get me some coffee first. ---
**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 23, 2016, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/135 "2016-04-23T11:30:28Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Checking in. Got logged in this morning with the password in the “reset password” email that got sent at 3:15am the other night. Then promptly changed it to something new. Haven’t tried with Tapatalk yet, need to get me some coffee first. You are clearly **Shoeless** , but are you sockless too? ---
**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 23, 2016, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/136 "2016-04-23T12:04:16Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Anyway, just email a mod or report a post and tell them what happened. That’s what I did, and they disappeared my sock username along with all my sock posts, leaving not a crumb behind. I was wrong when I said this; as of now, my sock posts still stand (or they came back?). It’s all very confusing. ---
**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 23, 2016, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/137 "2016-04-23T12:11:50Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > I now count 95 user names including ‘sock’: Not all of those were created in The Great Outage; some may predate it. Conversely, there probably were some sock names created during TGO without “sock” in the name. It looks like Colibri, or someone impersonating him, created Colibri2 then. If I had the mod task of eliminating the appropriate names without handing out penalties, I’d just make a list of the names created during the specified time period and delete the obvious ones first. ---
**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 23, 2016, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/138 "2016-04-23T12:14:00Z")
Thanks, Bullitt, for that beat poetry! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/139 "2016-04-23T12:16:13Z")
I can post? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-the-outage/752843/140 "2016-04-23T12:47:38Z")
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