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  • GoComics.com temporary down November 19, 2022

    From Darryl H@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 19 03:58:52 2022
    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as I noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."

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  • From Darryl H@21:1/5 to Dave Van Domelen on Sat Nov 19 10:54:29 2022
    On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 12:51:31 PM UTC-6, Dave Van Domelen wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Darryl H <[email protected]> wrote:
    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as I >noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is >either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."
    It went down late last night, if not earlier. And the ucomics.com site
    is also affected, it's not just the gocomics.com service that pulls from it.

    Dave Van Domelen, wonders if ucomics was using any Twitter "bloat"
    services to run things....

    Or if it is in a Elon Musk Twitter takeover situation.

    You can still see most of the comics that are on gocomics.com via ArcaMax.com

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  • From Dave Van Domelen@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Nov 19 18:51:25 2022
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Darryl H <[email protected]> wrote:
    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as I >noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is
    either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."

    It went down late last night, if not earlier. And the ucomics.com site
    is also affected, it's not just the gocomics.com service that pulls from it.

    Dave Van Domelen, wonders if ucomics was using any Twitter "bloat" services to run things....

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  • From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to Darryl H on Sat Nov 19 13:49:15 2022
    On 11/19/2022 12:54 PM, Darryl H wrote:
    On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 12:51:31 PM UTC-6, Dave Van Domelen wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Darryl H <[email protected]> wrote:
    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as I
    noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is
    either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."
    It went down late last night, if not earlier. And the ucomics.com site
    is also affected, it's not just the gocomics.com service that pulls from it. >>
    Dave Van Domelen, wonders if ucomics was using any Twitter "bloat"
    services to run things....

    Or if it is in a Elon Musk Twitter takeover situation.

    You can still see most of the comics that are on gocomics.com via ArcaMax.com

    https://dilbert.com/ is down too.

    Lynn

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  • From Mark Jackson@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Sat Nov 19 15:04:36 2022
    On 11/19/2022 2:49 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 11/19/2022 12:54 PM, Darryl H wrote:
    On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 12:51:31 PM UTC-6, Dave Van
    Domelen wrote:

    It went down late last night, if not earlier. And the ucomics.com
    site is also affected, it's not just the gocomics.com service
    that pulls from it.

    Dave Van Domelen, wonders if ucomics was using any Twitter
    "bloat" services to run things....

    Or if it is in a Elon Musk Twitter takeover situation.

    You can still see most of the comics that are on gocomics.com via
    ArcaMax.com

    https://dilbert.com/ is down too.

    Has Adams whined that it's an attack on him by Cancel Culture yet?

    --
    Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
    Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which
    by reasoning he never acquired: for in the course of things,
    men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.
    - Jonathan Swift

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  • From D.D.Degg@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 19 12:52:38 2022
    You can still see most of the comics that are on gocomics.com via ArcaMax.com

    Relatively few of the 500 GoComics are available on Arcamax.

    Note that the newspaper's that provide GoComics online are also down. https://www.oregonlive.com/go-comics/

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  • From Darryl H@21:1/5 to Darryl H on Sat Nov 19 15:13:48 2022
    On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 5:58:53 AM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as I noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."

    GoComics.com still isn't back up as we approach this evening, but according to someone on Twitter posting about the GoComics.com shutdown that may or may not be temporary: "They haven't said a word that I've seen about why it's down, which of course is
    very frustrating. My guess is they've been hacked and they're cleaning up the mess, but I've no evidence for that other than the unannounced outage."

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Nov 19 23:25:58 2022
    On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 13:49:15 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 11/19/2022 12:54 PM, Darryl H wrote:
    On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 12:51:31 PM UTC-6, Dave Van Domelen wrote: >>> In article <[email protected]>,
    Darryl H <[email protected]> wrote:
    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as I >>>> noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is >>>> either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."
    It went down late last night, if not earlier. And the ucomics.com site
    is also affected, it's not just the gocomics.com service that pulls from it.

    Dave Van Domelen, wonders if ucomics was using any Twitter "bloat"
    services to run things....

    Or if it is in a Elon Musk Twitter takeover situation.

    You can still see most of the comics that are on gocomics.com via ArcaMax.com

    https://dilbert.com/ is down too.

    Lynn

    And Thefarside.com has gone as well.

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  • From Horace LaBadie@21:1/5 to D.D.Degg on Sun Nov 20 01:36:52 2022
    In article <[email protected]>,
    "D.D.Degg" <[email protected]> wrote:

    You can still see most of the comics that are on gocomics.com via ArcaMax.com

    Relatively few of the 500 GoComics are available on Arcamax.

    Note that the newspaper's that provide GoComics online are also down. https://www.oregonlive.com/go-comics/

    All of Andrews McMeel is gone.

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  • From Darryl H@21:1/5 to Horace LaBadie on Sun Nov 20 04:14:41 2022
    On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 12:36:41 AM UTC-6, Horace LaBadie wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    "D.D.Degg" <[email protected]> wrote:

    You can still see most of the comics that are on gocomics.com via ArcaMax.com

    Relatively few of the 500 GoComics are available on Arcamax.

    Note that the newspaper's that provide GoComics online are also down. https://www.oregonlive.com/go-comics/
    All of Andrews McMeel is gone.

    It may not, there's your local newspaper.

    And gocomics.com is still temporary down for the second day in a row. Maybe we may get the reason why from Andrews McMeel tomorrow on Monday.

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  • From Darryl H@21:1/5 to Darryl H on Sun Nov 20 04:17:28 2022
    On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 6:14:42 AM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 12:36:41 AM UTC-6, Horace LaBadie wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    "D.D.Degg" <[email protected]> wrote:

    You can still see most of the comics that are on gocomics.com via ArcaMax.com

    Relatively few of the 500 GoComics are available on Arcamax.

    Note that the newspaper's that provide GoComics online are also down. https://www.oregonlive.com/go-comics/
    All of Andrews McMeel is gone.
    It may not, there's your local newspaper.

    And gocomics.com is still temporary down for the second day in a row. Maybe we may get the reason why from Andrews McMeel tomorrow on Monday.

    And if you want to see the coming week's strips (a couple of them) that were on gocomics, check out the online Sunday Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper via Press Reader.

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  • From Dave Van Domelen@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Nov 20 18:31:07 2022
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Darryl H <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 12:36:41 AM UTC-6, Horace LaBadie wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    "D.D.Degg" <[email protected]> wrote:

    You can still see most of the comics that are on gocomics.com via
    ArcaMax.com

    Relatively few of the 500 GoComics are available on Arcamax.

    Note that the newspaper's that provide GoComics online are also down.
    https://www.oregonlive.com/go-comics/
    All of Andrews McMeel is gone.

    It may not, there's your local newspaper.

    If my local newspaper's comics section had the comics I wanted to read,
    I wouldn't be reading GoComics, though. (It has two, one of which they don't run on Sunday at all, and the physical paper doesn't come out on Saturdays. Gannett took it over last year and it now sucks badly, I stopped paying for
    it back in October but still get it because they apparently fired everyone
    who reads email or website feedback sections, and I'm not gonna mess with
    their phone bank crap.)

    Dave Van Domelen, hopes it doesn't come back up under a paywall.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Nov 20 18:21:16 2022
    On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 03:58:52 -0800 (PST), Darryl H
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as I noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."
    And sandraandwoo.com. It seems to be spreading.

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  • From Darryl H@21:1/5 to Darryl H on Sun Nov 20 19:41:44 2022
    On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 5:58:53 AM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as I noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."

    UPDATE: GoComics posted on social media this Sunday evening: "We're sorry our systems are down! We're working hard to fix the issue. We will provide a status update when available. Thank you for your patience."

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  • From Default User@21:1/5 to Darryl H on Mon Nov 21 03:50:05 2022
    Darryl H wrote:

    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as
    I noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It
    is either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."

    It's been long enough that I'd have to think it's a hacking situation,
    likely ransonware.

    While there are other sources for some of the comics, the big
    difference is the lack of comments. You get used to interacting with
    certain people about the various strips, kind of the way this newsgroup
    was back in the day.


    Brian

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Nov 21 04:51:29 2022
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Darryl H <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 5:58:53 AM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as
    I noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is >either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."

    UPDATE: GoComics posted on social media this Sunday evening: "We're
    sorry our systems are down! We're working hard to fix the issue. We will >provide a status update when available. Thank you for your patience."

    In a situation like this, you just redirect your site to a page
    with a note and today's jpegs in alphabetical order like when a
    store's computer is down and the manager comes out with a calculator
    and a note pad to take care of everyone.
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Darryl H@21:1/5 to Darryl H on Mon Nov 21 11:09:52 2022
    On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 5:58:53 AM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as I noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."

    According to the Arizona Daily Star about the since Saturday, November 19, 2022 GoComics.com shutdown that may or may not be temporary if it doesn't come back online soon: "The digital service provider is currently experiencing technical difficulties and
    working to resolve the situation. According to the company, the extended outage is due to apparent cybersecurity issues, and their team is working around the clock to restore operations.The company cannot estimate exactly when full access to comics,
    puzzles and columns will be restored."

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  • From Darryl H@21:1/5 to Darryl H on Mon Nov 21 17:30:17 2022
    On Monday, November 21, 2022 at 1:09:53 PM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 5:58:53 AM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as I noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."
    According to the Arizona Daily Star about the since Saturday, November 19, 2022 GoComics.com shutdown that may or may not be temporary if it doesn't come back online soon: "The digital service provider is currently experiencing technical difficulties
    and working to resolve the situation. According to the company, the extended outage is due to apparent cybersecurity issues, and their team is working around the clock to restore operations.The company cannot estimate exactly when full access to comics,
    puzzles and columns will be restored."

    Is GoComics.com ever going to be back up by Thanksgiving or will it never come back at all? Is this the end for GoComics.com forever???

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  • From Darryl H@21:1/5 to Darryl H on Tue Nov 22 03:35:03 2022
    On Monday, November 21, 2022 at 7:30:19 PM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    On Monday, November 21, 2022 at 1:09:53 PM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 5:58:53 AM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as I noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."
    According to the Arizona Daily Star about the since Saturday, November 19, 2022 GoComics.com shutdown that may or may not be temporary if it doesn't come back online soon: "The digital service provider is currently experiencing technical difficulties
    and working to resolve the situation. According to the company, the extended outage is due to apparent cybersecurity issues, and their team is working around the clock to restore operations.The company cannot estimate exactly when full access to comics,
    puzzles and columns will be restored."
    Is GoComics.com ever going to be back up by Thanksgiving or will it never come back at all? Is this the end for GoComics.com forever???

    As of this morning - November 22, 2022 - GoComics.com is still at least if not permament temporary down.

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  • From Horace LaBadie@21:1/5 to Darryl H on Wed Nov 23 01:53:05 2022
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Darryl H <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Monday, November 21, 2022 at 7:30:19 PM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    On Monday, November 21, 2022 at 1:09:53 PM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 5:58:53 AM UTC-6, Darryl H wrote:
    GoComics.com is temporary down on the morning of November 19, 2022 as I noticed this: "The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later."
    According to the Arizona Daily Star about the since Saturday, November 19, 2022 GoComics.com shutdown that may or may not be temporary if it doesn't come back online soon: "The digital service provider is currently experiencing technical difficulties and working to resolve the situation. According to the company, the extended outage is due to apparent cybersecurity issues, and their team is working around the clock to restore operations.The company cannot estimate exactly when full access to comics, puzzles and columns will be restored."
    Is GoComics.com ever going to be back up by Thanksgiving or will it never come back at all? Is this the end for GoComics.com forever???

    As of this morning - November 22, 2022 - GoComics.com is still at least if not permament temporary down.

    It was restored late Tuesday. It appears to be functioning normally, and
    missed days seem to have been updated.

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