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Something is clearly going on and likely they are working on it, but the site is not the same. I now have to sign in each time I come. The avatar duck is missing and the circle on the upper right says "log in". I do so, marking the "remember me". But it doesn't remember me.
The stuff from two days ago is taken care of and I can now send private messages, and can post, though I am no posting in questions for a week or so. Just coming in to see how Lea is feeling daily and to read y'all's answers.
Admins told me in an email that someone may have reported me for something and a "ticket was out" until checked, and that may have been why my posts would appear, then disappear at once that morning.
Not sure what's happening, but I think Geaton and freflyer the two with profiles still missing. JoAnn's had been missing a long time and is now fixed.
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BarbBrooklyn's profile still has a WHOOPS and a kitten on it, also. So that is three we know of.
I wonder if the ADMINS could do for freqflyer, Geaton and Barb whatever they did for JoAnn?
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An hour or so ago I could not get in AG at all thru my Email, tried pad and phone. Tried search engine and got a 504 error code so maybe they are working on the problems.
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Geaton, fregflyer and Barb still look like they have down profiles with the kitten that says "Whoops".
Does ANYONE ELSE?
I know that JoAnn's was fixed. Yesterday there was a time when no one could get on, so likely the whole site down for resets or repairs?
I wish the admins could update us daily as to how many are down and to let us know they are still attempting to fix the issue.
ONE MORE THING is that I tried to "like" a comment below (17 hours ago) by Bandy, who has been having problems right along also, and it will not accept a "like" from me on her post. Went to her profile page to leave a message just to ask "are you getting this message", and it looks to have posted.
I am still having to log in each time I come to the site, even tho I am checking the "remember me" box.
So overall, still some glitches. Hope they are working on them.
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I still think Firefox is pretty good, but like any browser it's all in how you set it up. I have my privacy settings set to very strict, reject all 3rd party cookies and delete all cookies on close, plus I run an ad blocker.
I find Google/Gmail/YouTube et al. to be much more problematic, try as a may to delete they always seem to remember me.
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I found a new feature. I use "following" on members profiles to see other questions they may have had. Before, when I read a former question and hit back, it took me back to the persons profile meaning if I wanted to see a post I had to hit "following" again to see the list of questions. Now...I hit back and there is the list of questions.
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I am still not profile worthy.
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I think the techs have no idea what is wrong or how to fix it FF.
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That post deserves 100 likes!
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The 3 posts I see have been reported.
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I find it interesting that some hacker would have any interest in an aging care Forum. Or enough PERSONAL angst/hatred of it, or someone on it, to create this kind of chaos.
It does seem to make sense that anything like this would happen on a Saturday/Sunday. I DO think our admins are around on weekends, because in the past they have responded. I hope Aging Care admins give us a clue what's going on. Has anyone sent notification of this attack, now apparently gone, to an email for our admins?
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Stacy, I am a bit of a computer Luddite, but is this not indicative of a pretty "low level" hacker??? He/she is able to create an account (easily done) and then create a question through that account (easily done) AND he/she is able to then change responses to any responses on that particular question, BUT NOTHING ELSE. That is to say he/she is unable to change our responses on other "legitimate questions". SO, doesn't this mean he or she is most likely not o be a part of the employee system at AC? (disgruntled type). I would think an ex employee could do a lot more sophisticated damage/work on the page.
It's kind of exciting overall, but given the problems on the system in the last week, it does look like some employee/ex-employee or disgruntled "other" who is semi-sophisticated is at work with SOME malevolent intent. And again, I think that would be such a small group.
Someone interested in doing this on an aging care forum must have a really boring life overall I would think.
The threads aren't deleted, either. They are a bit buried, but still there, unless this is a mess of new ones.
Would love to see admin response, but wouldn't be surprised to see our site down on Monday morning for overhaul. Perhaps should form a bit of a tree to reach one another? Or just play it all by ear.
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Stacy, that makes ZERO SENSE TO ME, that some attacker would come in to the page without AC letting us know. ZERO. I have never heard of such a thing. My own personal opinion here, but I AM NOT BUYING THAT FOR A SECOND.
Moreover this person says they are happy to do this. Like they are doing AC and US a favor. What BS. I doubt AC asked them to test this site in any way.
Moreover this person says they used their TWO accounts to do this. If this is the case I hope that that person AND their two accounts are banned from the site. Of course, as we ALL know, all one had to do is a little work to get on any site again.
So I have no idea what you are talking about with these wonderful people who are doing FREE HACKING on aging care to make everything great again.
I doubt AC hired this poor misbegotten creature to do ANY testing on this site. Not thousands and not one cool cent. I hope that they can identify them and their "two accounts" asap.
But what would I know?
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Yesterday, I decided to "log out" after not doing that for many years. I wanted to see if that had something to do with my missing profile.... NOT. Then I had trouble trying to "log in" as I couldn't remember what password I had used way back when.

The website said it would send me a temp password. I waited and waited but nothing showed up in my email. So I had a light bulb moment and tried a very old password, and it finally worked. This time I made sure I wrote it in my password notebook.

But now, when I leave this website, the software automatically logs me out. That's weird. Log in/log out. Rinse. Repeat.
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freqflyer:
Softwear automatically logging me out each visit as well. And I never had profile page problems, but did have the same posting problems that Bandy had.
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Closing my account-- if these folks can get in this easily and if admins have so little control/care to advise us of what's going on.

Sorry. I can't afford to expose myself this way.
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Boy, leave for the weekend and look what I miss! Hope it gets figured out soon!
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Stacy, I never did believe any of the "conspiracy theories" that abounded back years ago about who was actually "working for the site", "hired by the site","a plant of the site", "had other accounts". And I am not buying conspiracy theories today.
People back then were PM-ing utter lies about me (one of which being I was a "practicing witch") and lies about others on this page. There were lies spread to people about "so and so said this about you" to members.
I think that most of those silly theories and nasty gossip is gone. Thank goodness, because we lost people because of them.It was claimed back then that people were "plants". It was then,,and I think now, utter nonsense.
AC isn't going to plant people here to make nonsense hacker posts without telling us that.
People are not plants and many accounts and all of that.
I think that the spreading of rumors should not be tolerated by ANY of us. I think gossip should not be tolerated by any of us.
If people write you a pm to gossip about others, make claims about others, accuse others, I would suggest you GO TO THOSE OTHERS and check it out.
Anyone who does that nonsense has no one's good at heart. This is a simple forum with VERY decent people.
Conspiracy theories about AC and just about anything else is total nonsense and often done to make trouble, to divide people.
My opinion, be it never so humble.
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Again, Stacy. I don't believe conspiracy theories. Didn't then. Don't now.
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Barb, please please don't leave. If you need to take some time off do that. I took 2 months off during the holidays when people were gossiping, shouting at one another, arguing and being devisive. I need to take myself out of it for a while.
Write the admins before you think you want to leave. I got through to ashley.huntsberry@aplaceformom.com. I also copied moderator@agingcare.com and so I don't know which worked.
I hope you won't leave. You are one of the originals for me here, one I truly love and trust and think gives great advice.
I hope if you leave us for a while you come back. If our regulars leave a whole bunch will exit. I am not saying the site won't survive or that we aren't expendible, but you are NOT expendible to me.
Wait and see what Monday brings from the admins. Hopefully some word.
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Of COURSE, Stacy, they gather information. All businesses gather information. Our information is for sale everywhere. Our TOASTERS have chips to gather info.
Their business is elders. Some love what they do, some don't. They were enormously helpful to my brother when he had to find a place for his partner, not A Place for Mom, but one very similar in So. Cal. Love them or hate them they have a service to sell. And information on us and on our elders is likely gold, if they can sort through the nonsense to get to it.
Again, my opinion only, and this is a wearisome boring subject in any case. People will make their own decisions. What I don't personally like is people PM-ing me things they have ZERO knowledge of, making claims about other people, gossiping, creating conspiracies where none are.
Anyway, my personal opinion is that the page is having some serious problem. Our amateur hacker is only taking advantage of his or her simple knowledge of its system. Now let's just see, let's HOPE they fix it. And let's not make up conspiracies where there are none.
Lastly, if we are NOT here to answer the questions posed to us by our OPs, if we BELIEVE this site is run by people for nefarious reasons, I cannot imagine why we would stay for a second. I certainly wouldn't. I understand Barb wanting/needing to leave for a while. It is frustrating not to be able to get into our own profiles, not to be able to contact people when/if we need to. I understand us getting overwhelmed, or disappointed or tired enough to take some time off. But I don't understand thinking this is some evil setup to gather some information from people, and then staying on it. Because I would leave in a second if I believed that.
No, THIS is lastly. If someone ever tells you that someone is a witch, or is two accounts, or is a shill for the admins, or is working for the page, or or or or or, why not GO TO THAT PERSON and open an honest conversation with them. It's at least worth a try, right?
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Barb - please don't leave. You are one of the backbones of this place. Just give it a break for a while and see what A/C sorts out. We all need a safe place for connection with others. I know you are going through a lot and certainly don't need more. ((((((Hugs))) to you.
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WHOEVER our hacker is, he or she isn't in a white hat, trust me. This is some minor league troublemaker who wants and who loves drama and chaos. If it is the admins I will EAT my hat, white or otherwise! And likely leave the page the same moment. This is someone changing the words of our posters, and playing. That's what they like, to play with people's minds. It's their form of entertainment.
Awaiting the admins attention tomorrow, and hope that they will weigh in at least to tell everyone that it is not THEM posting the snide little nonsense.
Meanwhile, hopefully back to our OPs in the a.m., what this page is supposed to be about.
BARB, don't LEAVE. Or leave only until the page is fixed. Or take a vacation from it. Again, you are not expendible here.
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I 100 per cent second Golden's comments. Barb, don't leave. Or anyone else who is considering leaving. We all need each other.

I don't believe there's some big conspiracy on here. In fact this so called hacking problem seemed to have all started when a certain poster (who I won't name) you all probably can guess who I'm talking about, started planting this notion in our heads.

Relax everybody. Things will get sorted out.
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Bandy, why would you think it was you I was talking about? It could be anybody I was referring to.

I'm not going to say who I meant cause I don't want to cast aspersions on anyone. Whoever it is knows who they are and they should stop it right now so we can all get on with it
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Just went thru the posts and the "hackers" 4 posts are still up. I am EST so not sure what time zone this site is in. Would be nice if Administrator would at least tell us they r aware of the problem.
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I agree JoAnn.
I hope the admins show up today to tell us what is happening. The Happy-Hacker is still there with all her/his posts to us. And we have heard nothing. All the folks who have no profile are still without a profile. People are saying they will leave, and they are long time members.
I hope that someone will at least speak to us to acknowledge our concerns and reassure us that something is being done.
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Hi all,
 
We are aware of the suspicious activity that transpired over the weekend, and we're looking into it. The original posts have been kept active for now so our team has everything needed to investigate the matter.
 
The profile page bug is still on our radar as well and should be resolved soon.
 
I'll share any updates here as I receive them. Again, thank you all for your patience and for providing such detailed information about the issues you've been experiencing on the site.
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AgingCare,
Thanks very much for the update. Glad to know you are aware of the hacker, and are investigating.
Would really help us if you DO respond and update us while all this is going on. We all were wondering why, over all this time, the profiles of some people are fixed so readily and others go on and on. We appreciate the update so much. I hope that we can look for updates on THIS PARTICULAR thread. Having "one place" makes it easier.
Personal opinion is that this is a simple amateurish troublemaker who loves chaos. Hope you get her/him.
And hope Geaton's, Freqflyer's, Barb's and any other profiles are still up again.
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Stacy, you seem increasingly more unhappy with AC pages. Sometimes we just need a vacation from it. You might consider taking some time off from it if you are not enjoying it; that sure helped ME when I got myself all unhappy.
I don't see you up on the top answering a lot of our OP's questions anymore. Maybe dive into helping others would be a thing to try.
The Admins say they are leaving up the nonsense so they can continue to investigate it. I suggest we might give them a chance. But those of us who don't wish to give them a chance certainly don't need to stay.
As to eye openers? I have had a few too many for a while. I don't think I will be seeking out more, hee hee.
Take care, woman.
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