ProtonVPN – August 2026

In June 2026, ProtonVPN were blocking a different domain belonging to us, they were adamant that they’re weren’t until someone did actually work out they were blocking a domain. We actually in the end totally gave up on that project down to ProtonVPN

We previously moved our status page from https://brownuptime.com to https://uptime.brownroom.org believing that was sufficient, but thanks to ProtonVPN, we’ve had to move it back to https://brownuptime.com because ProtonVPN is blocking brownroom.org but since we’re being blocked twice taking a status page more seriously by adding https://brownstatus.org to follow the status of all brown websites and take if the sites are working for everyone more seriously

Now brownroom.org doesn’t work with ProtonVPN. But their AI bot, lumo makes various excuses

hobby run on a shoestring” by “a couple of people” it’s actually professionally run and not by “a couple of people”

Errors 1132 have nothing to do with the websever, that is a Zoom error message

The domains do not have different infrastructures, both domains are registered with the same registrar, same DNS and same professional webhosting company on a professional webserver the webserver is monitored every minute

Not a firewall issue, host, CDN or routing – although we are regretting having a link to your VPN with free trial to your VPN. We now recommend SurfShark instead

No we don’t use CloudFlare we don’t like CAPTCHA‘s either and we’re not firewalling your CIDR blocks … yet

If brownuptime.com works then brownroom.org would work too. Now your screwing with two domains, we’ve registered brownstatus.org as clearly there is going to be ongoing issues with ProtonVPN

Current uptime issues

Last updatedSiteInformation
11 September 2026brownroom.org/uptime.brownroom.orgThere is still an active issue with ProtonVPN we doubt it will get fixed. You could switch off NetShield, but it’s only supposed to block adverts/trackers and malware – which we don’t have, we don’t even use Google Analytics

There is a 7 day free trial with SurfShark if you’d prefer to continue using a VPN or report it (again!) to https://protonvpn.com/support

29 August 2026brownroom.orgThere is an active issue with brownroom.org not working if you are a customer of Proton VPN.

Due to this specific issue, uptime.brownroom.org has been returned to brownuptime.com, as it’s impossible for proton VPN customers to access anything on the brownroom.org domain.

We had believed the previous problems with Proton VPN had been fixed, but isn’t.

In all honesty if you can see brownuptime.com with ProtonVPN, you should be able to see brownroom.org as well. You should report this to Proton, we’re not blocking them or any other VPN

It does however work with SurfShark or switching NetShield off on Proton, although our pigs wouldn’t give log files to anyone either

No matter what Proton tell you, no we don’t use CloudFlare and we don’t block VPNs either

28 August 2026brownuptime.comNo known issues at this time
28 August 2026brownhanky.comNo known issues at this time
28 August 2026scatboi.comNo known issues at this time

Brown Room Issues on 1 and 2 December 2025

Although we do have systems monitoring the website, no alerts ever received regarding the site being up and down on 1 December 2025 and we randomly discovered there was an issue but was resolved

However on 2 December 2025 we realised there was still a problem, but with external systems which should have fixed issues from 1 December. Now we’ve made sure updates to 1 December taken place, all looks good

Whoops – brownroom.org

We’ve been tweaking with some settings and discovered we’ve broken something, even though we realised the cockup, after being alerted, it’s now fixed, but the site is still offline – but should start working soon.

According to the external testing, the site was offline between 1340 to 1420 Zulu on 26 January 2025, but all is resolved now

We’re really sorry for the downtime.

Brown Uptime (Dedicated Domain name)

The aim of this website is to be a Brown version of those “is it up or down” style sites, but with more info without the anti-brown attitude.

We’re hoping to keep all the guys informed of whatever technical problems SB and MBH might be having.

UPDATE: We’re currently showing as offline, despite the fact we’re online.

MBH

MBH have announced that their website might be offline from January 20th.

UPDATE: If you haven’t already noticed, MBH is now back online 🙂

Scatboi

We are aware that scatboi.com is temporarily offline due to an internal issue. Scatboi has been working on an upgrade to the core system and have decided to update the site to an improved version, rather than fix any issue.

Star paid members will be credited.

Update: There are now signal links on the scatboi.com website