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LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Wed 12-Aug-15 12:32:22

Hi everyone,

First and foremost: sorry for the loss of usual service over the last few hours.

To explain what's been going on: shortly after 10pm last night, we started receiving a large amount of spurious (i.e. automatic, rather than human) traffic. This is known in the trade as a denial of service attack: one in which a person, or organisation, deliberately floods a website with requests for pages, with the intention of overwhelming its servers and preventing bona fide users from accessing the site.

It goes without saying that we're doing everything we can to repel borders and keep the site up and running. We'll post on our social channels with any further updates (we're over here on Facebook and Twitter, if you don't follow us already), and in the meantime, thanks, as usual, for bearing with us.

gillybob Wed 12-Aug-15 12:36:37

I wondered what that URI (??) message was I was getting earlier on.

Thanks HQ

I have noticed quite a few very odd (repeated) discussions being started of late.

Ana Wed 12-Aug-15 12:40:35

I gave up and went to bed last night, and this morning I couldn't get on until 10-ish...I read that Mumsnet had been down yesterday evening as well.

POGS Wed 12-Aug-15 12:42:43

Flipping heck Laura couldn't you have put a message up for us.

I even went as far as doing a factory reset as my tablet is a stupid piece of equipment and I have to do it at times to get going. Now I know I 'cussed it' for no good reason. grin

Pleased to know it was from your end though!

Ana Wed 12-Aug-15 12:44:06

Well, we wouldn't have been able to see the message if the site was down, would we POGS? grin

Indinana Wed 12-Aug-15 12:44:23

So that's what's being going on. I thought it was just some benign 'site maintenance'. Hope you manage to send them packing with a large flea in their ears angry

POGS Wed 12-Aug-15 12:52:54

I could get active up on my screen at one time, so I believe I could have seen a thread saying technical problems.

Actually it did all sorts of things. grin

Hey ho.

POGS Wed 12-Aug-15 12:54:46

Lara

You sound like Miranda's mum, 'Bear with'. smile

LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Wed 12-Aug-15 13:04:10

Hi Pogs We couldn't get in either unfortunately. We did put it on social media though but that was the best we could do I'm afraid. And we wanted to make sure we had a handle on what was going on before posting.

Miranda's mum? What fun!

soontobe Wed 12-Aug-15 13:39:47

Heck.

On mumsnet it has just been suggested by HQ that posters change passwords.
Did we ought to do that on here too?

[I have gransnet on a seperate email adress with a seperate password, so I assume I dont need to?]

KatGransnet (GNHQ) Wed 12-Aug-15 14:18:52

soontobe

Heck.

On mumsnet it has just been suggested by HQ that posters change passwords.
Did we ought to do that on here too?

[I have gransnet on a seperate email adress with a seperate password, so I assume I dont need to?]

No need to change your passwords - we have no reason to believe any data as been compromised.

soontobe Wed 12-Aug-15 14:47:20

Ok thanks

Anne58 Wed 12-Aug-15 15:13:14

I thought it was her friend that said "bear with", and her Mum said "such fun" confused

rosesarered Wed 12-Aug-15 17:19:52

It was Phoenix!

jinglbellsfrocks Wed 12-Aug-15 17:54:47

How exciting Poor HQ.

POGS Wed 12-Aug-15 18:47:14

Wrong again. blush

Wish I woz clever like what you two is. grin

Ana Wed 12-Aug-15 18:56:49

Could have done with a comma after your 'was', roses! Changes the whole meaning...grin

rosesarered Wed 12-Aug-15 19:37:06

Yes Ana, I did think that right after posting! but couldn't be arsed felt that nobody would notice.Except you did! grin

Anne58 Wed 12-Aug-15 19:44:18

grin I love Gransnet!

Icyalittle Fri 28-Aug-15 19:07:41

Sorry if this is just ignorance, but I have just been trying to make my profile private while all this hacking kerfuffle is going on and it won't let me. I don't know if it is a random issue that will resolve itself, or if you need to know - so I'm letting you decide!

This is the error message I got

KatGransnet (GNHQ) Fri 28-Aug-15 19:17:32

Icyalittle

Sorry if this is just ignorance, but I have just been trying to make my profile private while all this hacking kerfuffle is going on and it won't let me. I don't know if it is a random issue that will resolve itself, or if you need to know - so I'm letting you decide!

This is the error message I got

Oo-err, thanks for the screenshot, that's really helpful. We'll pass it onto the tech team to take a look at.

Indinana Fri 28-Aug-15 19:17:58

Icyalittle your profile does seem to be private, because your name comes up black, whereas the names of those with public profiles are blue.
However, nobody's profiles, public or private, seem to be available at the moment. Don't know what's going on confused

Indinana Fri 28-Aug-15 19:18:44

X posts, sorry!

Indinana Fri 28-Aug-15 19:20:27

KatGransnet that screenshot looks very like the one I get when I try to make amendments to my profile and save them. For instance I am unable to add favourite books/films etc.

KatGransnet (GNHQ) Fri 28-Aug-15 19:23:26

Seems like an issue with the profiles generally. Hopefully tech will get a chance to look at it Monday morning smile