Is anyone else having issues with discogs moving slowly and sometimes timing out when going to the site in the last 24 hours or so? Every time I have tried to look something up on there yesterday and today it is taking a long time to navigate the page. It will sometimes load the page properly and sometimes clock out or never move to what I clicked on. Was just curious if anyone else has had that issue.
Yes. Just about to start my own questioning thread. Funny how TODAY was the day I planned to catch up on some listings of things I don't need anymore. I'll wait. Just too frustrating.
I had the issues on the app, but not the website (FWIW, I really hate the limited functionality of the app -- build it out!)
I've noticed recently that they're phasing out the desktop view while on mobile. I don't like the mobile layout, so I use the desktop view (until it randomly kicks back to mobile view, which usually indicates that I'll get automatically logged out within two days for some reason). The desktop view still works most of the time, but on an album's release page, it's locked to the mobile view with no way to change it back. Going to another page doesn't reset it to mobile view. This only started a few days ago. If I had to guess, the delays mentioned in this thread were probably a result of implementing this across the website software, and if you were doing it via computer or using mobile view on a phone or tablet, you wouldn't have noticed the difference.
Put a good UI person and a good programmer in a room for a few months, and they could make Discogs a good app. Right now, it gets worse with every passing week. The recent inundation with individual listings for different pressing plants, for live albums (official and otherwise), etc. has really obfuscated the core information. Not to mention that the mobile view hides critical info like price history. Really? You don't think that's maybe the FIRST thing I want to see?
I asked a seller a question and a reply from another seller from 10 months ago came in as the reply (showing it had just arrived). I suppose I could have done something wrong, but I don’t see how (given all of the various circumstances I recall).
These issues have been going on for well over a year plus other issues! Going slow is just one of them Pictures missing from discography that I knew were there because I put the pictures up in the first place. But my friend in Denmark wanted to add a cassette tape that he got by the band GNP and to cut the story short the whole listing for their only album Safety Zone was missing but you could search for them individually but someone had to do tweaks to get all of them back under the name GNP this was back in March! One other thing that I am convinced happens but I can't prove it 100% is that I would add something to my collection and then I would go looking for the same release months later in my Collection on Discogs and it wouldn't be there! I would know for a fact that I did add it in my collection because I may have added pictures, additional information or added it to a private list that I might use for a different reason! So far this has happened at least 3 or 4 different times that I know of!
I wonder if it has been hacked, as I cannot get on there as well as I get a ' 400 Bad Request Request Header Or Cookie Too Large ' Message and I noticed just before a number of very dodgy orders, which I have reported.
I did have a problem earlier today for about 10 - 15 min., but I'm there and logged in right now with no issues.
Definitely hacked, I managed to log in on another device and found 14 orders ranging from $3.50 to $75,000 . Needless to say, I cancelled them immediately and notified the buyers and Discogs, some of whom may have lost money. Where buyers have paid, the funds have gone into the hackers PayPal accounts and not mine, I have therefore disconnected the PayPal link and suspended my sales inventory until this mess is sorted. BUYERS BEWARE.
Sorry to read about these events— has Discogs replied? I’m a very small scale seller (and buyer) and as a rule don’t track the Discogs forum but thought I should check and see no threads RE any type of hack (besides the ‘porn’ hack a few weeks back). Also, I’ve gotta ask about the $75K order— WTH!?
No, still waiting for a reply after 4 days, I have for now suspended my sales inventory until they sort the mess out, if you look through the the market place forum there are plenty of buyers who have been fleeced
This has apparently been happening a lot. I saw something on the discogs forum that suggested that the hackers are guessing people's passwords by brute force, which implies that discogs doesn't lock your account after too many incorrect login attempts. Not very comforting to know that they haven't implemented simple security measures that have been industry standard for, like, forever, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given that their two-factor authentication never worked correctly either.
@uzn007 and @p147 : Thanks for the replies -- I just checked the Discogs forums again (General, and Marketplace) and still don't see any threads -- can you cite a thread title (and specify which forum)? Thanks again
Couple of links to start with, but I am sure if you google and search in the Marketplace forum you will find. Discogs Forum - Hacked accounts and scam accounts Discogs Forum - Hacked accounts Discogs Forum - Has Discogs database been compromised - Hacked? Discogs Forum - account hacked
