In Asia, FT was sort of available last Friday during the day. I wasn't able to access FT since late Friday and throughout the weekend in Taiwan. I even tried to google and see if there's any site down "announcement" but didn't find any. I thought no IB people was working on it since it's weekend. I assume I would have to wait till Monday (U.S. time) since IB hasn't had a fast response time to FTers technical "needs" in the past.

I decided to give a last shoot just now and found out FT is finally back. It must just happened in the last 3 hours or so. I believe the downtime was more than 50 hours in my region.

I would think at least IB/FT could have sent an email (or something similar to TalkMail) to give FTers a headsup since the site wasn't available. Nothing in my email from FT/IB the whole time.

Sad to know it's due to a cyber attack though.

From Korea, couldn't get in from Friday until now. Although I did receive a couple of emails about threads I was following. Seems back to normal, although I couldn't reply here using the Quick Reply feature.

Just back on in New Zealand. Professional Pilots Rumour Network has also been down for roughly the same time as FTand just checked - it has come back on also.

It seems OK now. Will the issue fixed for now? What is the cause of the issue?

There's an admin note posted at the top of every forum:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/dinin...blems-340.html

Still intermittent glitches--I've had to reload a couple pages in the last hour--but FT's at least usable now.

1) Well, here it is the 16th (per Stephanie's announcement).

2) No email alerts here. Is there something we can do at a master level to re-set this function? I think it's a per-thread command, though I've posted several comments. And, by the way, to cblaisd's comment: +1 (actually, several).

3) Some people have indicated that some of the problems we've encountered have been the result of measures implemented to protect us, to keep the bad guys from moving through IB into our sets until everything is truly hunky dory. Plausible? It could explain the long delay in getting the email alert function running for some of us.

4) God, is my email inbox barren, these last three (four?) days.....


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To my #2, following Efrem's instructions (thank you very much) in the pre-crash thread about this, I see that all my subscriptions are set to "Instant". Just wanted to add this so no one goes to the trouble of helping me (thank you very much). The other comments still stand.

It's not exactly a reliable board.

Sure, this particular weekend could've been due to a DDOS attack. But what about the *other* times we've had unplanned outages?

And this from the company that OWNS the BB technology this board runs on. Amazing.

Received notice today at 9:54am US ET of DullesJason's comment @9 of two days ago on this thread. The first and only email alert since Friday the 13th.

Sporadic connection issues today. Hopefully things will stabilize later today.

Same here. Plus, email notifications have stopped again (for me).

In an effort to centralize the information on this topic, rather than post an update in this thread I'll ask all to please read the Update on Current Downtime Situation.

Thanks for your patience.

Thanks for the info ! ^

Mikel, it's super to have the top person ring in on this. Why don't you go ahead and close this thread and the slow/timing out one.

And to all, since Stephanie is reporting that the assault is still underway, if "all fall down" again, Gary Leff's (gleff, the chair of TalkBoard) View From the Wing blog has garnered a lot of posts by FlyerTalk sages, particularly when we couldn't get into FlyerTalk over the past several days. (Where there's a will...) Look under several of Gary's entries, as it looked like things were going to be hunky dory again.

http://boardingarea.com/blogs/viewfromthewing/

Last, as to the reason? "Because they can" is quite sufficient in these cases. This one is looking more like the assault in India a few months ago, than a one-off sniper attack. These Friday the 13th bad guys have a plan. The goal (if more than "all fall down") is the question.