TTLG down for 2 days

[lowenz]

DoS attacks?

[lowenz]

OK now it partially works  Still "The service is unavailable."

Edited July 21, 2025 by lowenz

[taffernicus]

i can access http://%77%77%77%2E%74%74%6C%67%2E%63%6F%6D normally , i can also access it's ip on https://1255203900/forums/ ( 74.208.228.60 ) just fine

I just went there yesterday too.

sometimes i just put in certain url on downforeveryoneorjustme.com just to double check

 

 

[lowenz]

OK, now it's up & working

Edit: Strange "Forums are currently offline for maintenance"

Edited July 21, 2025 by lowenz

[taffernicus]

yes it's down on my end too, i rarely get maintenance schedule info on ttlg

 

so http status code 200 seems unreliable for web monitoring, we should watch for status code 301 dan grab that "Forums are currently offline" text element , I use powershell to monitor thing like this

 

the website may return 200 OK which indicates the status is up but the most important thing is the content, status code 200 does not represent the actual up state

[lowenz]

On 7/21/2025 at 11:29 AM, lowenz said:

OK now it partially works  Still "The service is unavailable."

So I was right? DDoS?

Edited July 24, 2025 by lowenz

[chakkman]

Creeps who do stuff like that.

[demagogue]

Al_B, the admin, explained the reason in a post on the Facebook page that they were being overrun with bots and scans, so he shut the main portal down until they subsided. But anyway it's fixed now. 
 

Edit: It was more than that. He put in some kind of bot scrubber code to ... I don't know, do whatever bot scrubber code does to ward of the bots. 

[lowenz]

Database error

The TTLG Forums database has encountered a problem.

Please try the following: Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser. Open the www.ttlg.com home page, then try to open another page. Click the Back button to try another link.

The www.ttlg.com forum technical staff have been notified of the error, though you may contact them if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

[datiswous]

On 8/2/2025 at 4:39 PM, lowenz said:

 

Can't read your post.

 

[demagogue]

You're using a dark theme & he copy/pasted black text in. You could click-select or cntl+a higlight the text and probably read it that way, or copy & paste it into a text doc. I wonder if the forum could have code that converts text color appropriately to the forum theme, although it's not the highest priority issue anyway. 

Anyway, to respond, database errors happen sometimes, and it's usually fixed by the time the admin sees the alert and has some free time to fix whatever the issue is, which usually isn't that hard. The forum is back up now anyway. 

Edit: I say that and now it's down again. Well hopefully whatever the problem is gets reliably fixed soon!

[jaxa]

On 7/24/2025 at 7:09 PM, lowenz said:

So I was right? DDoS?

Lots of sites have Cloudflare bouncers activated under various circumstances, doesn't necessarily indicate a DDoS.

[lowenz]

Down

[thebigh]

Working again for me.

[Keruah]

It's down again. Cannot access it either from my IP, or two different VPNs. Weird

[jaxa]

52 minutes ago, Keruah said:

It's down again. Cannot access it either from my IP, or two different VPNs. Weird

Has there been any explanation for previous outages?

It's getting so flaky, better start backing up important information and files when it comes back.

[chakkman]

Yes, it's right here, in this thread: 

 

 

Edited August 31, 2025 by chakkman

[Keruah]

39 minutes ago, jaxa said:

Has there been any explanation for previous outages?

It's getting so flaky, better start backing up important information and files when it comes back.

I mean, right after I'd written my post it came back online, and I couldn't access it for 2 hours. Probably bots again, but hell if I know what's been going on with ttlg. 

[thebigh]

It's been a bit flaky lately. I've noticed it going down, then I wait 20 minutes and it's back for an hour or so, then it kaks itself for another fifteen minutes, and so on.

[pwl]

ttlg seems to down again at least for me I tried different forums but got same message that there is a problem connecting to site!

[JackFarmer]

17 minutes ago, pwl said:

ttlg seems to down again at least for me I tried different forums but got same message that there is a problem connecting to site!

When I was able to access today, it showed thousands of "users" online...

[chakkman]

1 hour ago, pwl said:

ttlg seems to down again at least for me I tried different forums but got same message that there is a problem connecting to site!

I had massive problems today as well. Mostly using the function so search threads. Didn't load at all.

Edited September 14, 2025 by chakkman

[jaxa]

Several hours ago I got a couple threads to load, it just took forever.

[demagogue]

I've been following the TTLG mod discussion on this.

Basically it's lots of bots. Lots & lots of bots. 

There are ways to crackdown to bring down the bot number like a human check when you log in, but that also tanks the SEO on the search engines and kind of ironically also deters actual humans logging in too, or something like that.

[datiswous]

Spread the news! TTLG is down, come all to TDM! (not the bots)