Anyone else getting this?
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looks to be an issue with discourse… I was almost wondering if we hurt the fee fees of some libertardian h@x0rz today.
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That’s what I was thinking! 
But as you note, it’s a general issue, although we’re okay…
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discourse doesn’t host this instance…
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Oh! gotcha!
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I’ve had a tab open to the other place but hadn’t refreshed in days… I’m seeing the same thing, though. It does look like they’re working on the issue:
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Looks like it’s back up! I guess it happened sometime last night.
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Well it appears to be working from my phone now
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Ah, yes, me too. I guess I decided to visit at just the wrong time, or something 
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It was not working just a bit ago on the PC. 
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From the Discourse twitter, it looks like they’ve been dealing with a DDOS attack for the last few hours.
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There’s some sort of bad ads being loaded at the front page. There’s a prompt to update either Flash or Google Play Protect, and that pop-up can’t be exited. It’s been showing up all day, and the Mods are on it. The “unhealthy backends” are the latest wrinkle.
I’m not going to try my luck by checking the front page. I typically just head straight for the forum anyway. 
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I got the Adobe flash thing too. Very peculiar. I wonder if it was legit.
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I doubt it. I’m not even sure if Flash is supported any more, and from what I recall, the Update popup always gave you the option to do it later. From what people have said, the popup they got had no way to close it.
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Yup, no way to close it. Scary! That made it seem fake.
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It was as it is for most sites the ad provider. And it still is a game of whack a mole for them with the bad actors.
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it’s almost like allowing unvetted actors to place arbitrary code automatically on websites is a bad, bad idea, and even more insulting that it’s being done for fractions of a penny
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