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I've been getting these errors intermittently. It manifests when I try to view one of the forum pages (or even when submitting this post), and after partially loading the faux wood background and some headings a large white overlay appears with one of the two messages in this post's title.

It has been happening since last night (2025-01-13 ~23:00 UTC-8). It occurs on two different devices (laptop and mobile) and on different networks (home WiFi vs mobile data).

Anyone else?

Yes. Exactly the same problem for me since yesterday afternoon (CET).

Yes, although it's taken me four attempts to reply to you, they need to spend some of the revenue we pay for a service, on better hardware - its getting ridiculous. It's great getting new games, but the infra is creaking!

It happens quite often. "Service is normal" does not refer to the forum

Posting on the forum hasn't worked very well for ages (After having to type everything again several times, I learned to copy the text, before hitting "submit"), but the forum not loading is new for me.

I checked yesterday, and BGA was working on it.

GTSchemer wrote: ↑15 January 2025, 16:54 I checked yesterday, and BGA was working on it.

Seems to be back to "normal," on mobile anyway. I used scare quotes because normal for the forum now includes having to try to submit a post multiple times before it sticks, but that wasn't the error I was talking about (it has been discussed elsewhere in addition to Hervor mentioning it above).

Ed.: Working on desktop, also.

Hervor wrote: ↑15 January 2025, 16:39 After having to type everything again several times, I learned to copy the text, before hitting "submit"

Same. Although refreshing will often (not always) restore the text you typed, I usually copy it just in case if it's more than a sentence.

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑15 January 2025, 21:01

Hervor wrote: ↑15 January 2025, 16:39 After having to type everything again several times, I learned to copy the text, before hitting "submit"

Same. Although refreshing will often (not always) restore the text you typed, I usually copy it just in case if it's more than a sentence.

I've found (using Chrome anyway) that if you use the back button, it always restores what I've typed, though it then moans about the form being invalid on the first submit (and keeps my text through that submit). So if I submit and the input box goes blank, I hit back, and then submit twice and it works. I mean, yes, that's still obviously a bug (that would be nice to be fixed), but at least there's a consistent workaround?

nik592 wrote: ↑15 January 2025, 23:50

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑15 January 2025, 21:01

Hervor wrote: ↑15 January 2025, 16:39 After having to type everything again several times, I learned to copy the text, before hitting "submit"

Same. Although refreshing will often (not always) restore the text you typed, I usually copy it just in case if it's more than a sentence.

I've found (using Chrome anyway) that if you use the back button, it always restores what I've typed, though it then moans about the form being invalid on the first submit (and keeps my text through that submit). So if I submit and the input box goes blank, I hit back, and then submit twice and it works. I mean, yes, that's still obviously a bug (that would be nice to be fixed), but at least there's a consistent workaround?

I think I've used back before as well. But sometimes I hit back, and I don't see it do anything so I think it hasn't registered my click and I hit back again, then I'm back at the original thread before I hit reply and I have lost the text. To protect myself from myself, I still have to copy the text.