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Just so everyone knows the trick I’m using when hit by these dumb, dumb, dummmb server errors:

Muirium wrote: 23 Mar 2026, 17:50 You can post, btw. Let me repeat myself:

When you see the error: delete the &sid=12345678901234567890 section of the url. Then reload the page.

Usually everything after &sid= can go. It's just broken tracking garbage.

Weirdly, just opening a page in a different tab will also work, and will stick. Command click (or control click I guess) a link in the forum and find out.

Is this something we users should be forced to do? No.
Does it work, though? Yes.

A real fix can only be applied by the site owner.

I see no "&sid=" section in the URL when I try to write a PM.

I just tried it. (Safari on Mac and iOS.) Here's the url the "error" screen had:

ucp.php?i=pm&mode=compose&action=post&s ... 38bcdc103c

Still got Sid. See how long it is! But deleting it didn’t fix the PM. The message text and recipient are blank instead. Tried again and hit the same error.

So yes, PMs in particular appear to be irretrievably broken.

Some smart guy(s) contacted me via geekhack's PM system, where I have the exact same username as here on DT.
So that could be a workaround - but isn't it a pity?

Who actually owns this site? Did Ellipse buy it a few years ago, or did that fall through?

In my fever dreams, I envision deskthority to be a community forum that can survive with donations and some advertisements.
Knowing that there are not only costs for hosting it, but also the required administration, patching, moderation and god forbid legal fees among things I don't even know.
Uhhh - these dreams ....

Thank you!

There is a way to get PMs working:
https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?p=525429#p525429

So this website is basically just suffering a long, slow death, right? Does anyone know who runs it?

An automaton.