We are aware that the Hive and comments are currently down and are investigating the issue. Please keep an eye on our Site Status blog for further updates. We appreciate your patience!
Some of our readers have been unable to sign in via the magic link system. Today we launched a new sign in option, one-time codes. Anyone can request a one-time code and use it to sign in.
You can find the link to this new sign in form at the bottom of our existing sign in page, or directly here:
https://accounts.talkingpointsmemo.com/otp
We are aware that comment threads are not generating on newly published content. Our team is working on getting this resolved quickly, and we appreciate your patience with us.
As part of a larger effort to find more long-term solutions to make sure our members are having a good user experience in The Hive, the forums will be undergoing some much-needed maintenance today, January 16th, at 2:15 PM EST. During this time, the Hive will be read-only with the ability to comment and most other features unavailable for about an hour. The updates and maintenance will increase the speed and reliability of The Hive server going forward. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at siteissues@talkingpointsmemo.com
An internet-wide Cloudflare issue has made access to TPM a bit shaky this morning. While the wider issue is being resolved and to ensure you can access TPM, we’ve disabled member services temporarily. Don’t be alarmed if you can’t sign in to TPM; you should still be able to read TPM. We’ll restore member services as soon as the underlying issue, which is outside of our control, is resolved.
We are aware that the Hive and comments section are down at the moment, our developers are working on a fix.
As many of you have probably noticed, TPM had significant downtime this afternoon. It turns out it wasn’t just us. Cloudflare had a series of broad outages this afternoon and TPM was downstream of that. About 20% of all websites use Cloudflare for core site functions (things like DDOS mitigation, proxying, DNS, caching, and some other things I’m sure I’m forgetting).
We’re back now and closely monitoring the situation. Our apologies for the interruption, and thanks as always for sticking with us.
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Our team is aware of some site outages for users and is working on a fix. We appreciate your patience with us.
Our team is aware of some site outages for users and is working on a fix. We appreciate your patience with us.
Our database/auth provider is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues.
What this means for users is that sometimes a sign in attempt will fail unexpectedly. Also, you may occasionally have to refresh the page a few times to see yourself as signed in.
We’re in conversation with our auth provider to work through this issue.
At 5:00 PM EDT, The Hive will be down for about 20 minutes to make a performance improvement.
