The owner doesn't respond to anything. I don't know how much he pays yearly to host this site and how much work it entails. I'm not being critical, but I suspect the YaBB (forum software) is old, and the search function times out nearly every time I use it. I have been getting certificate errors lately (meaning HTTPS doesn't work). The cert is probably expired. I'd be willing to take this site over and upgrade it if John H. ever got tired of it (and the hosting fee wasn't ridiculous). I think it needs to be on a better server/hosting plan. I have been an IT professional for 35 years.
Anyway, your IP was probably banned, so a VPN would get you over that hurdle. There are free VPNs out there. The Tor browser was probably getting you a different IP at one point.
I401 wrote on 08/04/25 at 07:44:39:I've been getting the Forbidden page specifically for any forum pages too about three weeks ago and emailed the site owner to no response. Funny how it'll still let me go to the merch and donation pages though
I think what triggered it for me was when I was trying to attach a photo through the [image] thing and copy pasted the wrong type of image link into the brackets. It gave me a weird error message saying I was trying to use a script then only gave me the forbidden page after that. I've been having to use my tiny phone ever since.
Edit 20 minutes later:
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I downloaded the Tor browser Ohio suggested and was able to access the forum again for about 10 minutes before getting the Forbidden page of death again. Good God I don't know what Apache is but it seems angry at me.
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