Board Game Arena

I've been having an issue since about Monday that I cannot connect to the forums unless I have a WiFi connection. The rest of the site is fine on mobile data.

It took me a while to diagnose, but now I can reliably reproduce the issue by disconnecting from WiFi and refreshing and the page won't load. Then reconnecting to WiFi and refreshing and the page loads.

I don't get a written error message. Either I get the faux wood background and nothing else, or the faux wood with a gray overlay with the frowning bad connection icon in the middle.

Given that the faux wood and surrounding frame is loading, I have some kind of connection, but the substantive content isn't loading.

I wonder if you can get to the forums directly when this is occurring.
https://forum.boardgamearena.com/

EDIT: Seems you have to type that in directly to get there without being embedded in the BGA frame. Clicking on my link above, BGA (at least for me) redid it as boardgamearena.com/forum.

EDIT2: Ok, now it's making me a liar and IS taking me to forum.boardgamearena.com when I click on it.

Testing forum without WiFi

[I posted that from my phone with Wifi off.]

FrankJones wrote: ↑17 September 2026, 21:27 Testing forum without WiFi

[I posted that from my phone with Wifi off.]

Yeah. That's why I check these things out here first before logging a bug report to make sure if it's a me issue, or a site issue.

lefalaf wrote: ↑17 September 2026, 21:26 I wonder if you can get to the forums directly when this is occurring.
https://forum.boardgamearena.com/

EDIT: Seems you have to type that in directly to get there without being embedded in the BGA frame. Clicking on my link above, BGA (at least for me) redid it as boardgamearena.com/forum.

EDIT2: Ok, now it's making me a liar and IS taking me to forum.boardgamearena.com when I click on it.

That was something I tried because I remembered that it can be a workaround when boardgamearena.com/forum isn't working.

I just tried forum.boardgamearena.com again disconnected from WiFi, but let it run long enough to get this error:

Your connection was interrupted
A network change was detected.
ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑17 September 2026, 20:57 Given that the faux wood and surrounding frame is loading, I have some kind of connection, but the substantive content isn't loading.

That data could still be in the cache.

Ingoschi wrote: ↑18 September 2026, 06:11

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑17 September 2026, 20:57 Given that the faux wood and surrounding frame is loading, I have some kind of connection, but the substantive content isn't loading.

That data could still be in the cache.

Good point.

Well, it's kind of a minor inconvenience. And I'm sure there are some folks who will be happy to see me posting less.

I guess wifi and mobile data use different providers (or different servers from the same provider). Maybe your mobile provider is blocking part of the connection?