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#1
Trashcan Stories / Re: My Trashcan Stories
Last post by Junkyard Society - May 21, 2026, 07:35:48 PM
An 18 yera old girl lived alone in an homeless camp by an remote forest. An 18 yera old girl lived alone in an homeless camp by an remote forest and one day had the girl been going back to the homeless camp with an shiny, clear and very thick balloon with an very widen rubber neck she got at an toy store that had an opening party. One morning at 7AM was the drowsy girl rubbing the shiny, squealing, stinky, clear and very thick balloon with an very widen rubber neck down in an cooler with a tons of old and stinky bags from 7AM until 11PM non stop.
#2
Part 5 again was a joyful read, looking forward to part 6 8)
#3
Pet & PonyGirl Stories / Re: Art and Pets by Rotaugur
Last post by Caras pet - May 21, 2026, 11:13:20 AM
I liked the playfull writing of part 2
#4
Pet & PonyGirl Stories / Re: Her Superpowered Pet by Ze...
Last post by Caras pet - May 21, 2026, 06:56:00 AM
Entertaining story, thanks for sharing.

The superpowers weren't really needed to make the story work - but maybe in part 2? 8)
#5
General Discussion / Re: Forum down
Last post by Caras pet - May 21, 2026, 06:29:11 AM
Thanks for investigating the issue.

Yes, the server is just fine when the forum is down, at least I can ping it and get stable responses.

The PHP logs didn't contain any clues?

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Forum was down again as I tried to post a reply; looked like the reply wasn't sent, preview didn't work either.
Just checked: The reply was indeed saved, so the page just couldn't reload itself afterwards - maybe that helps?
#6
General Discussion / Re: Forum down
Last post by teanndaorsa - May 20, 2026, 09:12:47 PM
I suspect the other site is just a coincidence.

I've just watched the Plaza (or at least the dynamic parts of it) be down for an hour or two. It doesn't appear to be the server being overloaded, or even properly offline, it just gets itself into a state where PHP requests take too long and the CDN that sits in front of the site gives up waiting. So I suspect either a misconfiguration on my part, or sporadic attacks that hog all of the connections to the PHP part without actually making it work hard. I say attacks because I've enabled some more detailed analysis that breaks down the traffic by country, and it's showing Brazil and Iraq as generating four times as much traffic between them as the US does, when I know that typically the US is our biggest visitors by far. And even with the basic monitoring looking back I can see this is something that has crept up in frequency since January.

I'm afraid there's no quick fix here though, because I don't want to just block those two countries, and there isn't an easy configuration change (that I know of) that I can make that will address the root cause. I've something I can try which may make the site more efficient and less vulnerable to the problem, but I won't have the time to test it properly until the weekend or some time next week. So you'll have to bear with it for now, sorry.
#7
General Discussion / Re: Forum down
Last post by bentbliss - May 19, 2026, 11:07:16 PM
I've seen this message early and there have been a few times over the past week where it wasn't accessible and had a Cloudflare message. That one happened with another site as well.
#8
General Discussion / Re: Forum down
Last post by teanndaorsa - May 19, 2026, 08:06:19 PM
Hmm, I'll take a look at the logs, but it does suggest the server is getting itself into a state and then fixing itself after a while. Thanks for letting me know; I'd be interested how many other folks are seeing this.
#9
General Discussion / Forum down
Last post by Caras pet - May 19, 2026, 07:15:10 PM
Is it just me?



# 504 Gateway Timeout ERROR

## The request could not be satisfied.

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We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner. 
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation. 

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Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront) HTTP3 Server
Request ID: ...



I get this on a regular basis, the forum is unreachable for hours when this happens.
#10
Pet & PonyGirl Stories / Her Superpowered Pet by Zeedro...
Last post by teanndaorsa - May 17, 2026, 07:25:56 PM
You can view the story here on the plaza:

https://grometsplaza.net/world/ponygirl/storiesek/her_superpowered_pet.html
F/f; petgirl; superhero; collar; naked; bitchsuit; buttplug; hood; leash; oral; blindfold; cons; XX

Please feel free to leave your kind comments and feedback about this story here.

Thanks  ;)
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