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John 6IX Breezy Offline
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Can't access website
April 16, 2022 at 10:41 am
I haven't been able to access the website when using the default http://www.atheistforums.org url for a few weeks. It just hits a blank page or an error page.

Today I googled the website and clicked on one of random tabs that get displayed when you search and I was able to get in that way.

I didn't find any mention of it in the forum. Don't know if it's just me but it's still not working.
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RE: Can't access website
April 16, 2022 at 10:47 am
We've been having trouble with the forum recently. It was down completely for about 5 days.

I'm not fully up to speed on the cause, but the problem you describe has been mentioned by a couple pf people.

As soon as we know the cause, and have a fix in place, we'll let you know.

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RE: Can't access website
April 16, 2022 at 10:53 am
(April 16, 2022 at 10:41 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: I haven't been able to access the website when using the default http://www.atheistforums.org url for a few weeks. It just hits a blank page or an error page.

Today I googled the website and clicked on one of random tabs that get displayed when you search and I was able to get in that way.

I didn't find any mention of it in the forum. Don't know if it's just me but it's still not working.

Some people have reported that with Firefox but not Chrome. I haven't had any issues. The usual advice is to clear your cache.
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RE: Can't access website
April 16, 2022 at 11:33 am (This post was last modified: April 16, 2022 at 11:34 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(April 16, 2022 at 10:53 am)Angrboda Wrote: Some people have reported that with Firefox but not Chrome. I haven't had any issues. The usual advice is to clear your cache.

That's interesting. I was having the issue on both my mobile and desktop devices, using both Chrome and Microsoft Edge. I cleared the cache just now and indeed the problem went away.
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RE: Can't access website
April 16, 2022 at 12:54 pm
(April 16, 2022 at 10:53 am)Angrboda Wrote:
(April 16, 2022 at 10:41 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: I haven't been able to access the website when using the default http://www.atheistforums.org url for a few weeks. It just hits a blank page or an error page.

Today I googled the website and clicked on one of random tabs that get displayed when you search and I was able to get in that way.

I didn't find any mention of it in the forum. Don't know if it's just me but it's still not working.

Some people have reported that with Firefox but not Chrome.  I haven't had any issues.  The usual advice is to clear your cache.

Short on cache? Go to PadayPreditoryLoan.scam. See what I did there?
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RE: Can't access website
April 16, 2022 at 1:18 pm
A good site:

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/

Atheist Forums, per this web site, was down hard for over several days.
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RE: Can't access website
April 16, 2022 at 1:19 pm
I had a problem with Firefox, cleared cache and did a restart (new version updated), no problems since.
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RE: Can't access website
April 16, 2022 at 3:15 pm
So, it seems if you clear your cache, that should solve the problem.

Glad I could help.

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