Forum issues such as read only mode

What happening with forum?

It started to log out me frequently and periodically I see strange things like

Love the fact we’re able to post new content on a read-only forum.

The “read-only” notice was up for only around 6ish hours, but it did very much inhibit post and reply creation during that time.

There was also a brief period[1] where the forum was unreachable because the TLS certificate, which is required for functioning HTTPS had expired.

Note that Privacyguides.org was not affected during this, and only the forum/content hosted on Privacyguides.net was affected.


  1. I don’t know the exact timespan but it was also like 8 (or more) hours AFAIK. ↩︎

There have been some server migrations.

seems to also align with registration issues I had to the point I had to use discourse ID to successfully sign up

hopefully the team figures out everything

Any explanation?

It seems a pretty clear explanation to me.

Lol I swear I did not see that comment, kinda insane of me…