# We May be Back to Normal **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 24, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-be-back-to-normal/753006 "2016-04-24T19:15:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-be-back-to-normal/753006/81 "2016-05-05T19:28:03Z")
OK, it’s fixed. _ **D’oh!!** _ ---
**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:** [May 5, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-be-back-to-normal/753006/82 "2016-05-05T19:28:20Z")
It would be nice to hear something from The Powers That Be about today’s issues. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-be-back-to-normal/753006/83 "2016-05-05T19:37:29Z")
They probably can’t get signed in either. Regards, Shodan ---
**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:** [May 5, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-be-back-to-normal/753006/84 "2016-05-05T19:49:18Z")
Probably not, but the homepage for the column mentions the Twitter account @Str8dope\_com. So in a situation like this one, it would be helpful for Someone In Charge to post a tweet to inform people what is going on. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-be-back-to-normal/753006/85 "2016-05-05T19:50:34Z")
Just came back for me. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-be-back-to-normal/753006/86 "2016-05-05T19:58:25Z")
Whatever the problem, it gave me a rash … ---
**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:** [May 5, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-be-back-to-normal/753006/87 "2016-05-05T20:02:24Z")
It’s back! Nothing but 503 for a while there. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-be-back-to-normal/753006/88 "2016-05-05T20:37:31Z")
Any official announcement will have to come from Ed, but it looks like it was a technical glitch. Everything seems to be working now, but if you experience any trouble, please let us know. If you can’t post, you can contact us via e-mail. For those of you who are members of the facebook group, I’ll be checking that periodically as well. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-be-back-to-normal/753006/89 "2016-05-05T20:52:21Z")
I’m glad it’s back. I was forced to do actual work at work while it was down. But by the way, a big limitation on the board was always that it was running on an underpowered server (and it had only very limited attention from the technical staff). After the recent attack it appears (based on the references to Cloudfront in the error messages) that the site is now hosted by Amazon Web Services. I’m assuming this means that the servers are no longer a limitation. So can we expect any improvements as a result? For example, perhaps the search restrictions could be loosened? ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-be-back-to-normal/753006/90 "2016-05-05T20:56:18Z")
In case it’s useful info to someone: I get notified by email when there are new posts to threads I’ve subscribed to. Normally these come in immediately. For the past week or ten days there have been recurrent stretches where there are NO notifications all day (even when a visit to the website shows there are new posts) and then the next morning I will suddenly get a backlog of 20 or 30 new post messages in one gush. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-be-back-to-normal/753006.md?page=4)