Does anyone know when the official forum will be working?

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Does anyone know when the official forum will be working?

Post by LaBlue0314 » May 8th, 2017, 11:58 pm

When I go over to the official Sims forum, I'm getting a Error 403 Blocked. I've tried on my computer, my cell phone, and my son's phone, and get the same message. I've tried looking to see if there was any information, but can't come up with anything. Does anyone know when the official sims forum will be working again? And what is going on over there?

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Post by sittingbear » May 9th, 2017, 12:31 am

It's down for maintenance don't know when it'll be back up

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Post by igazor » May 9th, 2017, 1:32 am

They didn't give us much warning this time, but there was an announcement up that the EA forums would go down for maintenance at 1pm PDT yesterday. That was now 9 hours ago. It could come back up any minute or it could be down for weeks, more likely somewhere in between. I could see how members who never saw the announcement might think the problem is on their end or they are being blocked on purpose, but somehow I doubt we all got blocked/banned at the same time. :)

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Post by sempreviva » May 9th, 2017, 3:14 am

Phew, I thought I was the only one with this problem! It even occurred to me that maybe I was banned because last time I wrote I reported that I don't like The Sims 4 lol :p

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Post by igazor » May 9th, 2017, 3:20 am

Certainly a failure to connect page that is more informative and friendly than "You don't have the rights to be here, go away" would be helpful especially to those who never saw the warnings beforehand, but such is probably not possible to arrange for them.

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Post by Echoweaver » May 9th, 2017, 7:28 am

Haha. Some ops folks are having a bad day.
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Post by TadOlson » May 9th, 2017, 1:29 pm

It's been down since yesterday and was glitching badly for a few days before going down with some accounts being glitched to new member status.

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Post by igazor » May 9th, 2017, 3:24 pm

The forums came back up at around 8am PDT this morning. So that was a 19-hour "maintenance" window.

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