Essentially, we want to make things a little cleaner (and obviously YMMV on that design front, I totally get it), while standardizing the menu for Expert Hotel Reviews, Articles, and the Forum.

Heavy database errors for the last hour or so.

Same here. Including as I hit "Quote" to reply to this post 🤣

Today's attempt to implement the new design does not appear to be working.

Lots of database and Cloudflare errors and the site is extremely slow - on the off-chance that a page actually loads.

We didn't implement the design. We generally don't make changes right before weekends (especially long ones) and we aren't working on weekeneds.

Huh. I made that comment because when the errors were occurring, when I would hit reload, the new banner design would load for a second or two before reverting back to the error.

Was this on the news/articles or on the forums?

I honestly don't know. I was trying to get into this forum and was hitting 'back' and 'reload' numerous times trying to get a page to load.

You guys are probably aware of this, but have been getting "fatal" PHP/stack-type errors all morning.

Have you gotten it in the past 30min?

Seems to have cleared up a few minutes ago.

Edited.

It seems to have cleared up - again - a few minutes ago. ;)

Happened again about a half an hour ago.

I don't know if it's a database error or what, but I keep writing out posts and hitting "post quick reply", after which the page will reload without submitting my post, and the text I wrote out is gone.

No error code, no nothing, just gone. It's happened five or six times this week.

Mac 10.14.6 + Firefox 89.0.2.

Any issues today?

Visiting son and using Firefox. Logged on to my FT account.

Click on articles from various airline index pages, I am getting random "403 Not authorized" pages
When refreshed it presents the correct referenced page.
No issues with posting

Thank for not wandering
Fred

Edit:
cut and paste of the message "403 Unauthorized"