I was on my way tryna post this, I have switched between Firefox and Chrome all day trying to figure out may be its my connection or the browser. I have seen some error messages logining before, but I haven't encounter this since signing up here in the forum. I just hope it's a temporary error and it's fixed quick

I hadn't noticed yet, but indeed, I miss all posts between posts 61426048 and 61427300. That's 1251 missing posts in 5 hours and 40 minutes.

That didn't work

Theymos hasn't been online.

So.... you're saying you broke it for everyone

I don't feed cookies to my scraper, so it doesn't index the Investigations board. I use cookies for other tasks, but none of them were running so I can't tell if it would have worked.

I am still having issues with Cloud Flare.  I still get the page asking me to enable Java Script every now and then.  Got it for about 3 times in the last hour while browsing the forum.  Weirdly enough, it typically appears if I go to the Home page of the forum.

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PrivacyG

After 10 minutes of waiting, I logged in this time. Something happened to the server, or it's just because of the user load?
But now I confirmed it is not because of my connection.

Bpip fed cookies under Vod's code (it probably still does) to get user info so we probably already know the issue still persisted during that time.

I wonder if this was resolved by whitelisting everything or just the bots, we probably won't find out similarly to if this was something automated by CF, an accidental kill switch triggered or was implemented for a reason (all are quite likely).

Based on the up time of this forum, there has to be multiple people with access to all connection information (there's probably more that could do defensive operations too - such as a controlled rerouting or changing certain cloudlfare settings to improve performance or limit some more intense pingers).

Strange it may seem but this is what I figured out for now if you navigate to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php you will still get 503 error. However if you navigate to to any other page or only https://bitcointalk.org/ it bypasses Cloudflare

For example:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php                         Error 503
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats      Error 503

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1634314          200 OK
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5422131.0                       200 OK
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=recent          200 OK

I think only theymos can guide here more.

Edit: Strangely enough you can bypass Cloudflare for the home page just by adding any parameter e.g. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?s=1

shahzadafzal is correct.  I am only running my browser with Java Script off and I can log in to Bitcoin Talk using ccode but Home page does not load.  The rest seems to work properly.  I am lucky I know 'index.php?action=profile' means viewing my own profile and that is how I skip the error page.

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PrivacyG

I log in using https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=login;ccode= and it works well, is there a difference between login and login2?

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PrivacyG

login2 happens when you click the "Login" button. I guess it redirects to index.php and throws the error, but at that point the login is completed and cookies should be good so I'll try to ignore that error and see if it can load any other pages afterwards. It just sucks having to code all these sketchy workarounds that will probably break the next time Cloudflare tweaks something.