Yeah, I started getting “forbidden” displayed too, after the change, sometimes after switching back to the browser from another application after a period of time and clicking on anything that would cause a refresh of the site/page, sometimes even clicking areas of my own profile page would trigger it too. Slightly better than the BIG RED banner, and I think the need to login again and again might’ve improved but still something’s not quite right yet.

I’m really struggling to read topics or post a reply to a thread.

I saw @Edinburgh’s reply about DNS malware blockers (saw it via email notifications from this site, I’m guessing he’s deleted that post now as he’s probably getting the errors still, or something else has gone wrong on the forum?), which I do not have in play - but it did cause me to disable my wifi and try my mobile ISP instead, and still the same results, even after several minutes of “giving-it-a-chance”.

It has taken me a number of tries to reach this page again to actually post a reply, and all while using the mobile data connection. 

I agree, it’s better to have zero spam on a forum, and appreciate the efforts being put in to making this happen, but also, it would be nice to be able to read posts too!

Note: I just tried to post the above message and got a banner saying “Your session has timed out” and it failed to post the reply, luckily I had copied it first, which I find I am doing nearly every post for fear of it failing to complete successfully. Maybe this session time-out period is to blame, @Admin3 ?

Good morning All,

The "Forbidden" message should now be vanquished.  Please do let us know if you see any further "Blocked" messages though.