This is a just a notice that the Portland Bike Forums are temporarily down.
Over the weekend, some sort of annoying spam/security breach resulted in every one of the 800 or so members being sent an email that said:
“Your account on Portland Bike Forums (by BikePortland.org) has been locked because someone has tried to log into the account with the wrong password more than 5 times. You will be able to attempt to log in again in another 15 minutes.”
I am looking into the issue and have decided to close the forums while I upgrade the forum software and remedy the situation.
Thanks to everyone who emailed me about this and I apologize for any inconvenience.
I will announce the opening of the forums here as soon as I can.
Thanks for reading.
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I\’m not sure it\’d necessarily be a vB version issue. Seemed more like someone simply tried to brute force every acct in the memberlist. Good luck w/ the upgrade, and we\’re all eager to get back in! 🙂
Jonathan…
Now what am I supposed to do?!!!
I live on those forums…. Ack!!!
Happy Hunting (Spammers… No Limit, Always In Season!)
K\’Tesh
Oh, the spammer stories I could tell… :p
Ack! See what you\’ve done to us, Jonathan?! We\’re turning the blog into a forum! Little pig, little pig, let us in!
sorry guys… hope to have it upgraded and re-opened before noon today.
thanks for being patient.
Good luck, Jonathan! I can\’t say I\’ve ever seen a vB upgrade go \”as planned\”. Just the nature of the beast. 😉 We\’ll just keep jamming up the blog until then. 🙂
I\’m with K\’Tesh…. 🙂 Now what am I supposed to do in the mornings? Work? Argh! 🙂
Hopefully the forums\’ll come back up soon…. I realize you\’ve been a bit busy lately…. 🙂
Hey folks… sorry for the downtime.. The Forums are now up again!
Looks like they\’re down again…(for a few days at least)