2025 technical issues (logon delays, Cloudflare, blanks, redirects; SEPTEMBER)

[anevilgiraffe]

I just posted a reply to a thread and the post button took me to one of those weird holding pages full of links for holidays and stuff like that...

dammit, should have screen shot it.

[Cubs]

It's happened to me a couple of times. It's inbetween pages on the site, it's asked me to click to agree to cookies, then it redirects me somewhere else. If I refresh the cookies page instead of clicking anything it brings me back to normality. Something's obviously wiggled its way in.

[anevilgiraffe]

happened again



Just as Cubs says, asks for cookies and then I'm looking at holidays for elderly singles...

[Daeothar]

Happened to me too just now, actually when clicking on this thread.

I've seen this a couple of times before in 1.5 decades of browsing the LAF, but I have absolutely no idea what causes it...

...Just as Cubs says, asks for cookies and then I'm looking at holidays for elderly singles...

Go for it; this is your chance! 

[Cubs]

Go for it; this is your chance! 

Just remember, a replacement hip could mean greater flexibility.

[carlos marighela]

Will there be deck quoits and shuffleboard? Is Mrs Blenkinsop still looking for a husband? It's not the fucking Nolan Sisters as the house band again is it? Inquiring minds must know. Asking for a friend of course.

[dadlamassu]

Got it as I logged in just now. 
Cookie choices very poor - no mint and chocolate chip...
then the holidays for seniors ... cheeky buggers

[WargamesIllustrated]

Hi all,

Joe here - I've been looking into this.

Earlier today, the site's database was automatically "locked" by our host, IONOS (for no reason as far as I can tell), which caused the website to be down for around two hours.

With it being locked, IONOS most likely saw a "dead" site and temporarily switched the website to a placeholder state, which is what you've been seeing every few clicks.

I'll keep investigating why it got locked in the first place and keep tabs on it, but for now, the best course is for everyone who's experiencing the weird redirects is to clear your browser/device caches and go from there.

Cheers!

[fred]

I've had a cookie consent page multiple times this evening - not had this before.

Big green accept cookies box in the middle of a white screen. Each time I have clicked back, and then the link again ad it has worked. But really quite irritating

I've also posted this twice now as the first one didn't save. 
Third attempt as now got cookie page

[aliensurfer]

keep getting the same - cookies thing, then the same page listed above - in chrome and edge - had to clear my cookies for chrome, seems to have stopped it - i hope

nope not stopped it

[Elbows]

On Firefox (with adblocker), I'm getting blank white pages each time I click on a post/etc.  I have to refresh for the page to load (including this page where I'm responding).  Been consistent for the past 2-3 days.

[Severian]

Yes, this has been happening to me also - cookie page and (just now) the random old age singles cruise page. Had the cookie page repeatedly via phone earlier, and now on the laptop too.

[LordBrentlake]

Just started getting this too - including the first time that I tried writing this message. To describe it as “irritating” is a bit of an understatement.

[AndrewBeasley]

Clearing cookies / cache does not help - it is almost like Ionos servers are not in sync. and you get bounced around randomly.

[6milPhil]

On Firefox (with adblocker), I'm getting blank white pages each time I click on a post/etc.  I have to refresh for the page to load (including this page where I'm responding).  Been consistent for the past 2-3 days.

Me too.