WCG site is up again! 👌

Anyone have any idea how to avoid the “Forbidden” error when trying to post on the WCG forums?

I have tried posting there about a dozen times over the last few days, without any success.

This is using Safari on an iPad and using Firefox on my Linux Mint PC.

I recall that some people were getting this error when using particular characters, but my attempted posts just have letters, digits, spaces, full stops and commas … nothing too weird!

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Cheers,
Mark

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Anyone have any idea how to avoid the “Forbidden” error when trying to post on the WCG forums?

I think the only answer is to wait till they fix it. It is a problem their end.

I notice on my results status page the fetch all results and summary links are missing.

In reply to MJH333's message of 3 Mar 2026:

Anyone have any idea how to avoid the “Forbidden” error when trying to post on the WCG forums?

Log out from WCG, remove the WCG cookies, and then log in again. That's a solution that has helped some people with the same issue.

In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 3 Mar 2026:

In reply to MJH333's message of 3 Mar 2026:

Anyone have any idea how to avoid the “Forbidden” error when trying to post on the WCG forums?

Log out from WCG, remove the WCG cookies, and then log in again. That's a solution that has helped some people with the same issue.

Thank you, Grumpy Swede, that worked a treat!

Cheers,
Mark

In reply to bill's message of 2 Mar 2026:

All the tasks should be done by the 4th. I think it calculates how much you can reasonably finish by the return date and then fills the queue with that amount of work.

Update: 10 missed completing by the deadline (with 4 tossed when it connected to report one, since they hadn't started yet).

It's an Android phone with 6 available cores, but it had to spend part of two days not crunching since I was at work with no charger. Still, it came close.

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https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/

Wow, I haven't read this board for some time, so have just caught up.
What I've read for the past 15 or so posts, I wonder, Am I special?

Except for several uploads that stalled for a day or so, have been getting tasks regularly for the past 18 days without running out (only download 2 days worth at a time).

Except for several uploads that stalled for a day or so, have been getting tasks regularly for the past 18 days without running out (only download 2 days worth at a time).

I haven't noticed a gap in getting tasks. Validation seems to still be a major problem though.

Latest news from Jurisica :

March 6, 2026
Upcoming Database Migration Will Require Taking BOINC Database Offline Between March 10th-11th - we have been testing the distributed Postgres architecture in our new staging environment. We intend to switch over to our Postgres build of the BOINC server v1.6.1 release next week, between March 10th-11th. The cutover will require a brief pause while we deploy the updated scheduler and feeder to each Postgres worker node, and rollout CDC via Kafka in production to match the staging deployment. With CDC, we will keep the legacy databases in sync with workunit state managed by the Postgres cluster.

CRUD operations from create_work and validator_assimilator daemons will be pipelined by a journaling process to keep workunit state eventually consistent in the legacy BOINC database, so that the current API layer and business logic will continue to work as usual. What we gain is the IOPS available to the BOINC database will scale to the number of servers we deploy in the Postgres cluster, and batch updates to the database will preserve data locality, completing the horizontally scalable design.

This should resolve the long-standing validation issues, high disk utilization for the current BOINC database, and enable us to return to strict homogenous redundancy classes for MCM1 workunits, solve the os_name and os_version buffer overflow and trunctation bug, and give us access to the new features implemented in the more recent BOINC releases, such as running containers as applications on the grid.

We are able to produce and run MCM1 and MAM1 workunits through this system in staging, and will launch ARP1 shortly after we confirm it delivers as expected and described above. We also should then be able to release a larger quantity of workunits than we were previously able to for ARP1 and accelerate the completion of the project.

it will be down for weeks, won't it?

In reply to Robokapp's message of 10 Mar 2026:

it will be down for weeks, won't it?

Now, now...think positive. I just changed my configurations to grab 3 days worth. I'll drop them back to a single day later in the month.

Hi!
Work in progress:

Scheduled Maintenance
World Community Grid is undergoing a scheduled infrastructure upgrade.

We are migrating to a new distributed computing architecture that will provide better performance and reliability, and allow us to resolve several critical issues currently affecting WCG.

BOINC volunteers: Your computing contributions are safe. The BOINC client will automatically reconnect when maintenance is complete. Any in-progress tasks will continue running locally.
WCG Operational Status on the Jurisica Lab Website
For details, see the Operational Status tab (top right of the nav bar on the page linked above).

See You later 😉🤞

Thank you Hans!

Now the question is only how they define the "brief pause", they mention in the latest Operational Status report?
A brief pause for one person, could be an eternity for another person. :-)

1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year ?

In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 11 Mar 2026:

Now the question is only how they define the "brief pause"

Yeah, "brief" means different things to someone who's a geologist as compared to someone who's a computer person. You left out my favorite method of telling time..."seasons".

I prefer "millennia" ;-)

Website still with the outage message.

BOINC responds with:
Scheduler request failed: HTTP service unavailable

I'm going to be very surprised if WCG comes back before some time next week.

4pm 12/3, still showing Sceduled Maintenance on Website.

Just popped in to say Hi to everyone as we wait for the "brief" outage to be over. I've got about 22 hours left of WCG work.

In reply to robsmith's message of 12 Mar 2026:

I prefer "millennia" ;-)

I'm sticking to my "season". They're very important to me...Meaning that, until recently, it's been Spring, Summer, Fall in Alaska. Winter in Arizona. Before I never traveled for Winter. I've got results piling up like a log-jam.