I have read other users, not just me, complaining of poor performance of the new Avast Forum or Community site due to constant 403 Access Denied Errors when loading pages or attempting to reply to posts.
The Community resource is primary public facing and as such is an indication of the quality of the products and services delivered by Avast.
These regular 403 Errors are intollerable, but seem to have become the norm.
The underlying server or hosting failure or capacity issues preventing normal web access to the Community should be attended urgently by Avast if a proper service is to be delivered to users.
Despite recent Maintenance, I am still experiencing regular 403 errors when browsing Avast Community pages.
It is a continuing annoyance and frustration whilst seeking to help others.
Is it just me, or are others suffering frequent 403 errors when trying to use the forum?
I do not see those on any other websites.
It is annoying, considering further website Maintenance has only just been completed by Avast.
I had to bookmark this topic specifically, wait for 10 minutes so I could even access it and post about it. I basically can’t use this forum anymore because it literally shits itself after going through 2 posts. What the hell?!
Not experiencing that, whilst I get the odd 403 error that isn’t nearly as frequently as it was some time ago.
It can be connection related (or rather poor internet connection related), refreshing a failed connection usually results in another error of a higher grade.
If I copy the original link and use a fresh tab it usually connects.
I have been having come cr4p connections on my broadband service provider and not just in this forum.
I’m still getting 403 errors most days here on this avast forum website. No problems at all on other websites. It is just annoying, but I am now used to spamming Reload until I get a response.
I’m using fiber optics that don’t ever have any issues. What I do think is making this forum chase its own tail is NextDNS with extensive filtering, Ghostery and uBlock that trigger this nonsense.
It has been this bad ever since they moved to this new forum format which I absolutely don’t like and they probably also changed provider or its backbone and it’s horrendous. It’s so bad I basically don’t spend any time around here because the forum looks awful and works awful too.