Blade Forums

[MacLaren]

Wander if they've been hacked or what?
Site has been down for a while now....

[Peter1960]

Or they reached the end of their threads ... just kidding :D

[MacLaren]

Or they reached the end of their threads ... just kidding :D

Lol.....good one

[StuntZombie]

I saw a post where Spark mentioned they were getting hit pretty hard last week. It looks like they got knocked out of commission.

[MacLaren]

I saw a post where Spark mentioned they were getting hit pretty hard last week. It looks like they got knocked out of commission.

No doubt....
Thanx for the 411 too.
Ill bet a lot of people are jonezin lol.....me included :D
I always like checkin out the exchange to see what comes up.....and its awfully handy if ya wanna move something.

[Monocrom]

They were down yesterday too. Then came back up. Now down again.

[palonej]

Still down....getting data base error now.

[Sharp Guy]

They've been up and down a lot the past couple days. Earlier all I could get was a database error. A few minutes ago vBulletin had a message that said something like "diagosing errors". Now it says "We're making progress. Thanks for your continued patience."

[bdblue]

The forum has been degrading for a long time, maybe 3 or 4 months. It would give database errors occasionally during the week, then over the past month it would give database errors almost every night, then the past few days database errors randomly throughout the day. There were threads about this in the tech support forum and the site owner said that the site was under some attacks last week. They said they were working on the problem and it required fixing one more than one thing.

[MacLaren]

Just got a vbulletin message that progress is being made and thanked for patience....
Maybe they'll really get it nailed down this time...

[v8r]

I mostly surf the knife makers forum, sheaths and such, and the knife makers for sale forum.
I always enjoy seeing what everybody else is building since I enjoy making knives myself.

[MacLaren]

I mostly surf the knife makers forum, sheaths and such, and the knife makers for sale forum.
I always enjoy seeing what everybody else is building since I enjoy making knives myself.

Cool :cool:
Feel free to post some pics of your work...... :)

[v8r]

I mostly surf the knife makers forum, sheaths and such, and the knife makers for sale forum.
I always enjoy seeing what everybody else is building since I enjoy making knives myself.

Cool :cool:
Feel free to post some pics of your work...... :)

Might just have to do that;)

[TheKnifeCollector]

They are STILL down.

[MacLaren]

They are STILL down.

Oh yes.
Man, Im just hoping that they are really taking the time to make things right.
You know that has to be a very profitable forum.
Hopefully they'll right the ship....

[anagarika]

If it's DDoS, very difficult to defend against. They even engaged Cloudflare.

Question is: who's attacking them and why?

[MacLaren]

If it's DDoS, very difficult to defend against. They even engaged Cloudflare.

Question is: who's attacking them and why?

Thanx for the 411.
And I have no idea as to whom the attacks are coming from.
Maybe someone else will have that info...

[bdblue]

The site was back up tonight, a little after midnight eastern time. I checked and got on about 12:45. I hit a few subforums and checked the timestamps. The site was down about 26 hours total. About 10 minutes after I got on it was back to database errors.

[anagarika]

Seems to be stabilized.

[MacLaren]

Seems to be okay this morning.
We shall see though...