# What just happened with the board? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 25, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495 "2021-01-25T23:17:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/1 "2021-01-25T23:17:26Z")
The board briefly flipped to “Read-Only Mode” and logged me out for a little while there. Why? ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/2 "2021-01-25T23:21:23Z")
I have no idea what happened, but the same thing happened to me. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/3 "2021-01-25T23:26:37Z")
Coup attempt. In all seriousness I didn’t notice the read-only part but I did get mysteriously logged out. ---
**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/4 "2021-01-25T23:31:31Z")
Similar to the big mass iPhone Facebook log out of this past Friday? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/5 "2021-01-25T23:32:43Z")
I’ve had it happen to me a couple of times in the past month or so. Again, only for a minute or two. Glitch in the Matrix. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/6 "2021-01-25T23:36:12Z")
I was away for a a while on other tabs, and when I went back, I had a little pop-up “You have logged out”. After I closed it, I was auto-logged in again, without having to type my credentials. First time that happened, yeah, a minor glitch, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/7 "2021-01-25T23:37:03Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I’ve had it happen to me a couple of times in the past month or so. Again, only for a minute or two. Glitch in the Matrix. 😉 An outage of this duration is a first-time for me, but I do recall being mysteriously logged out once or twice before, and then the site came back almost immediately. This time it lasted for something like ten or fifteen minutes, I think. This needs to be fixed or some of us might soon long for the days when all we had to endure was extreme slowdowns of the old vBulletin site! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/8 "2021-01-25T23:39:44Z")
Strange: now I got a notification in the notification area of Windows 10 that someone posted to this thread, though I had turned off notifications for this site in preferences. Have to check that setting, but something’s not quite right with the board. ETA: I checked my preferences, and yes, notifications were enabled. I had to disable them again. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/9 "2021-01-25T23:42:37Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Coup attempt. It wasn’t a coup! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/10 "2021-01-25T23:43:10Z")
Temporal Time Skip. These are more common these days because of 5G. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/11 "2021-01-25T23:43:39Z")
It was just gas, I swear! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/12 "2021-01-26T15:21:00Z")
In the past couple days I’ve found that if I walk away for more than (I’d guess) five minutes, the screen is frozen by the time I get back, and last night when I tried to click my way out of it, I got a message saying that Discourse has determined that I’ve been doing too much of that darned clicking and that I should try to log back in later, which I wasn’t able to, for about a good hour. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/13 "2021-01-26T20:51:08Z")
@codinghorror replied about this to my related thread in the Site Feedback forum (which is the forum I think he checks most often). > [@Read only mode and composing posts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-only-mode-and-composing-posts/931502/5): > > Yes, we are looking at moving this instance to a more powerful cluster soon. Sorry about that. (Lots of history and data here, larger sites = more database and thus more power needed) So it seems it was a load issue, and they’ll be fixing it soon by upgrading our (virtual) server. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/14 "2021-01-26T20:56:45Z")
It’s us isn’t it? It’s okay, you can say it! Could it be those rapid fire election/politics threads maybe? Maybe Discourse is intended for smaller usage than what we’re using? It’s kind of starting to lag a lot when it loads pages and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-with-the-board/931495/15 "2021-01-26T21:15:09Z")
Antifa.