Forum Maintenance Announcements

[number6]

We have a planned service interruption for the DEF CON forums today starting at 5:00pm.
If all works well, interruption should last less than 1 hour.
Thanks!

Work should now be complete.
Upgrade applied which includes bugs fixes and some cosmetic changes, but no features for posting/browsing.

[number6]

Forum maintenance planned tonight starting at around 10pm pacific time. Maintenance window is 6 hours. During the maintenance window starting at 10pm pacific time, expect access to forums to be intermittent.

Changing maintenance window to July 4, 2025 between 6pm - 11:59pm pacific time for forums.

[number6]

Forum maintenance planned tonight starting at around 10pm pacific time. Maintenance window is 6 hours. During the maintenance window starting at 10pm pacific time, expect access to forums to be intermittent.

Changing maintenance window to July 4, 2025 between 6pm - 11:59pm pacific time for forums.

Forums OS/kernel/PHP have been upgraded. Please let us know if you see issues.
Forum software has been updated:
* Gallery Channels allow users to share images. (We are not sure how these will be used, so what you see in features may change over time; features may be limited or non-existent over short term.)
* bugs fixed

Please let us know if you see issues with the forums.

Thanks!

[number6]

We have some last-minute maintenance on the forums starting at 10:30pm pacific time, expecting to last until 11:59pm pacific time.

[number6]

We have some last-minute maintenance on the forums starting at 10:30pm pacific time, expecting to last until 11:59pm pacific time.

This work was finished at 3:00am Pacific time, PDT, UTC-7, America/Los_Angeles.
One of a few changes included disabling brotli support which caused problem on https://defcon.org/ with long-term reliability and stability.
Please let us know if you see new issues on https://forum.defcon.org/
Thanks!

[number6]

Forum maintenance is planned for later this evening. A maintenance window October 4, 2025 from 6pm-11pm is planned. Expected service interruptions in this window of work.
Thanks!

[number6]

Forum maintenance is planned for later this evening. A maintenance window October 4, 2025 from 6pm-11pm is planned. Expected service interruptions in this window of work.
Thanks!

Forum software upgraded. Please let us know if you see issues.

This update was primarily bug fixes -- no new features.

Thanks!

PS: updates completed as of Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 8:19pm PDT, UTC-7, America/Los-Angeles

No other work is planned unless problems are found.

[Dark Tangent]

It's been a while since I posted an update. We have a few things in the works for forums.

- We have just upgraded the forums to support QUIC / http3 / H/3 so hopefully it will feel a bit more responsive. Please let us know if you notice anything different!

Next:
- We plan to move forums to new hardware
- We plan to do a fresh install of forums and fix some of the theme problems.
- I'm thinking of simplifying the number of sub-forums to streamline everything, but we can talk about that before it happens

[number6]

Hello, unexpected maintenance. Stuff should be working again. Please let us know if you see new problems. Thanks!

[Dark Tangent]

Using our .onion address? Good news!

We have enabled zstd compression and HTTP/2 support. Tor users should see a large speed improvement!