Hey everybody - for the past several weeks, 90% of the time the Alembic Club won't come up - it times out and never appears. I thought it must be something wrong with the forum, but no one else has said anything, so since it worked right now I thought I'd ask.


Also, I just tried to go on TalkBass and it's having a similar issue. So maybe it's my computer somehow? Or are bass sites being hacked???


Hope everyone is well!

Hey Harry.   I haven't experienced any problems.   Sounds like it's something on your end.   I would try and isolate the problem.   Do you have the same problem if you use your phone or a different computer to log on?

Bill, tgo

I have had issues in the last month logging in from my apple devices but not on my windows laptop. Then I thought i had narrowed it down to my vpn software and when i set it to use USA servers it worked fine for a while. Then it stopped completely even without the vpn. The past couple of weeks have been fine and today it's connecting through my vpn.
I have a screen capture somewhere that may give a teckkie some idea.

TalkBass is crashed right now. The Alembic Club is fine so far as I can tell.


*Ed's hand/eye coordination this morning... not as much. 


**and TalkBass is still down. They must be doing something over there.

One thing we did change recently was to add SSL to the Club. This means that the web address now starts with https:// rather than http:// - in any case, if you use the old web address then your browser is redirected to the new one, so you should not notice much of a difference. If you have the old address set as a bookmark/favourite, or as (one of) your browser's startup page(s) then consider changing it to the new one.

Quote from: lbpesq on April 04, 2021, 11:32:06 PM
Hey Harry.   I haven't experienced any problems.   Sounds like it's something on your end.   I would try and isolate the problem.   Do you have the same problem if you use your phone or a different computer to log on?

Bill, tgo

Good idea to check on my phone - didn't think of that - I'm on now so hopefully it won't be an issue!

Quote from: jazzyvee on April 05, 2021, 02:12:09 AM
I have had issues in the last month logging in from my apple devices but not on my windows laptop. Then I thought i had narrowed it down to my vpn software and when i set it to use USA servers it worked fine for a while. Then it stopped completely even without the vpn. The past couple of weeks have been fine and today it's connecting through my vpn.
I have a screen capture somewhere that may give a teckkie some idea.

Very strange!

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on April 05, 2021, 03:53:30 AM
TalkBass is crashed right now. The Alembic Club is fine so far as I can tell.


*Ed's hand/eye coordination this morning... not as much. 


**and TalkBass is still down. They must be doing something over there.

One or the other being down I can handle - but not both!!!

Quote from: adriaan on April 05, 2021, 04:25:35 AM
One thing we did change recently was to add SSL to the Club. This means that the web address now starts with https:// rather than http:// - in any case, if you use the old web address then your browser is redirected to the new one, so you should not notice much of a difference. If you have the old address set as a bookmark/favourite, or as (one of) your browser's startup page(s) then consider changing it to the new one.

Right now it's the https:// one, not sure about before. Hopefully it won't be a problem anymore but I'll make sure and update my bookmarks.

Thanks everyone! I thought I was going crazy!

Quote from: adriaan on April 05, 2021, 04:25:35 AM
One thing we did change recently was to add SSL to the Club. This means that the web address now starts with https:// rather than http:// - in any case, if you use the old web address then your browser is redirected to the new one, so you should not notice much of a difference. If you have the old address set as a bookmark/favourite, or as (one of) your browser's startup page(s) then consider changing it to the new one.

Finally no more clear text passwords? 

Aargh! It happened again! I tried to log in at 12:45 pm PDT and couldn't. I tried Safari, Firefox, and my iPhone - nothing. I emailed a Club member, and they said they could access it. It's 4:30 pm same day, and now I'm on! Weird...

Still good here, Harry, but TalkBass is still fouled up. Somebody over there zigged when they shoulda' zagged. 

I thought maybe bass forums were being targeted by hackers!

Quote from: hieronymous on April 05, 2021, 09:51:19 PM
I thought maybe bass forums were being targeted by hackers!

That would be a low blow.   


Sometimes our broadband is merely a trickle...


Edit- when I clicked "post" it black screened and said there was no connection,  had to rinse, lather and repeat. 

Have you tried restarting your router and modem?

Quote from: pauldo on April 06, 2021, 04:58:06 AM

Quote from: hieronymous on April 05, 2021, 09:51:19 PM
I thought maybe bass forums were being targeted by hackers!

That would be a low blow.   


Sometimes our broadband is merely a trickle...


Edit- when I clicked "post" it black screened and said there was no connection,  had to rinse, lather and repeat. 

"Low Blow" - I see what you did there! 

Quote from: keith_h on April 06, 2021, 08:00:31 AM
Have you tried restarting your router and modem?

No I have not - good idea, though I'm going to wait until I try at my office first. This is the only site where this happens, and it's intermittent...

FWIW, The TalkBass servers were reportedly burned up in a fire. They are waiting for word on whether or not to spin up the backups at alternate location. Day 3. That's commercial, so that's gotta' hurt. Times like this, I remember to be thankful to our gracious hosts who let us hang out here.

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on April 06, 2021, 05:26:29 PM
FWIW, The TalkBass servers were reportedly burned up in a fire. They are waiting for word on whether or not to spin up the backups at alternate location. Day 3. That's commercial, so that's gotta' hurt. Times like this, I remember to be thankful to our gracious hosts who let us hang out here.

Thanks for posting that - saw on their Facebook page.

We are so sorry for the massive outage we are experiencing.  The datacenter where we are hosted suffered a catastrophic power outage.  A routine load test of a generator caused a fire, fire suppression systems, and the fire department cutting power to the complex. 

We are awaiting word on whether our servers are affected by water damage and at that time will determine whether to spin up new servers at a different location, and restore from backups. 

And by the way, my Alembic Club access is still intermittent...