TUGBBS under attack again

[dioxide45]

I haven't noticed the error in a long time.

 

[TUGBrian]

well thats disappointing...was kinda hoping that would be a stopgap fix till we could update xenforo.

 

[Dean]

well thats disappointing...was kinda hoping that would be a stopgap fix till we could update xenforo.

I haven't gotten it this morning in situations I normally would. I consistently get the message on the additional tabs when opening a group at one time.

 

[TUGBrian]

how about today? anyone getting page load errors?

they claim to have done ANOTHER deep dive and discovered a configuration issue (that they claim to have fixed)

 

[HitchHiker71]

Sorry to report that I am still getting the forbidden message. Just got several before I could get past it.


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Same here - in fact it's now more prevalent on my MS-Edge browser this morning on my laptop than before, FWIW. I'll have to test Tapatalk and will report back in another post.

 

[TUGBrian]

yes please, they have taken an entirely new track on this "issue"...and if you are still getting the errors we are going to completely disable a particular module to test it out to remove the issue completely.

 

[Dean]

how about today? anyone getting page load errors?

they claim to have done ANOTHER deep dive and discovered a configuration issue (that they claim to have fixed)

I did early this AM, like 5 am Eastern.

 

[TUGBrian]

yea, we just made the new change this afternoon, just before 1pm est.

 

[pedro47]

I'm in TUGBrian, no forbidden message. I will check again after 5:00PM.

 

[HitchHiker71]

yea, we just made the new change this afternoon, just before 1pm est.

All good this afternoon on both my laptop and on Tapatalk so far...

 

[TUGBrian]

will be pretty crazy if this winds up being the fix. after all the work and "deep dives" they have done to track this down....and 100% of that having absolutely NOTHING to do with the root cause lol.

will be very happy if this does fix it though, just cant believe all the time/effort/energy wasted up to this point for something so simple. it was something we implemented WAY back when we were having all the bot traffic from overseas.

 

[amycurl]

This week, I've still regularly been getting the errors; it *only* happens on mobile devices, never on my laptop. Typically, after a few attempts, it will resolve and load properly. @TUGBrian, if I get the error again this evening (I often get them when checking TUG on my iPad as I wind down for the evening), do you want me to directly send you something when they happen? Just din't want to overload you.

 

[TUGBrian]

i would like to know if anyone is still getting the error after 1pm et today!

 

[HitchHiker71]

i would like to know if anyone is still getting the error after 1pm et today!

So far so good with Tapatalk this evening and I clicked on many different threads with zero issues.


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[Ken555]

In Canada today, and it's working so far!


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[pedro47]

Good morning today is 9/1/2026 and it work this morning. Thank You.

 

[amycurl]

No issues last night or this morning, yay!


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[HitchHiker71]

Tapatalk has been perfect this morning and yesterday after 1pm. Don’t wanna jinx us but at least for Tapatalk whatever was done appears to have resolved the intermittent “forbidden” access issues.


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[TUGBrian]

nice...what a pain we went thru all that other nonsense for it to be completely unrelated!

 

[Dean]

Nothing on my end either since the change yesterday.

 

[HitchHiker71]

nice...what a pain we went thru all that other nonsense for it to be completely unrelated!

Hey, at least the mystery appears to have finally been solved!

 

[pedro47]

It is 8:20PM 9/1/2026 and it is still working.

 

[pedro47]

It is 7:48PM on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 and it is still working. A Big Thank You to TUGBRIAN, and all who worked on this project and fixed the problem.