typedrawers.com offline every now and then?

Linus Romer
Linus Romer Posts: 210
edited August 19 in Suggestions and Bug Reports
Over the last two weeks, I have been unable to access typedrawers.com from Switzerland about half of the time. Depending on the browser, I received either an 'ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR' or a 'PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR'. Are other users experiencing this as well?
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  • Andreas Stötzner
    Andreas Stötzner Posts: 822
    Southern Germany: everything seems fine.
  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 2,026
    It might be a DDOS attack on Vanilla’s servers. Forums get attacked a lot. Vanilla can handle huge attacks but a really monstrous attack can still choke them.
  • Dave Crossland
    Dave Crossland Posts: 1,506
    All OK for me in Denver Colorado USA
  • Linus Romer
    Linus Romer Posts: 210
    James Puckett said:
    It might be a DDOS attack on Vanilla’s servers. Forums get attacked a lot. Vanilla can handle huge attacks but a really monstrous attack can still choke them.
    When typedrawers.com is down in Switzerland, as it is right now, other forums like civicwagon.com are accessible. Using a VPN is okay for me, but other users probably won't think to use a VPN when they see that a site is inaccessible. My internet provider, Swisscom, even warns me that typedrawers.com is a security risk (phishing, fraud), which is definitely a bad reputation for a website.
  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,517
    Sounds like your ISP may have over-active security protections.
  • Thierry Blancpain
    Thierry Blancpain Posts: 219
    John Hudson said:
    Sounds like your ISP may have over-active security protections.
    Probably! But Swisscom is (by far) the biggest Swiss provider, ex-state telecom firm similar to these behemoths in other countries. Typedrawer has been offline from Switzerland for the past month.
  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 2,050
    Same. I couldn't reach the forum for most of the day, be it at work or at home, on the phone or the laptop.
  • Albert Creus
    Albert Creus Posts: 13
    It works for me when on Swisscom, but it never works when on Sunrise network, also claming a security risk.
  • mitradranirban
    mitradranirban Posts: 101
    As per online services it is available in Switzerland, so it must be an ISP specific issue 
  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 2,050
    At least the Swisscom website claims TypeDrawers isn't on its black list:

  • Khaled Hosny
    Khaled Hosny Posts: 303
    AdGuardThis web page at typedrawerscom has been reported as a phishing page and has been blocked based on your security preferences

    I got this AdGuard warning for the second time today trying to access the site. I wonder if it is related to the issues others here are seeing.

  • Albert Creus
    Albert Creus Posts: 13
    Still unaccessible via Sunrise ISP. Writing now since I couldn't access the website for circa a month due to mostly using Sunrise ISP.
  • Dave Crossland
    Dave Crossland Posts: 1,506
    I just got this from the wifi within Newark airport in New Jersey on my phone, but my laptop accesses the website fine to post this comment! LOL

    No idea why this happens
  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 3,089
    The OHSU (Oregon Health Sciences University) hospital complex free wifi won’t let me visit typedrawers. Again some generic notice (if you can get it, behind the scenes—I can see it in Firefox, but not Chrome) that they think it is dangerous.
  • Ray Larabie
    Ray Larabie Posts: 1,466
    It disappears for me for about a week at a time.

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