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Hi all,

What happened during the downtime? First my password was no longer valid (without any warning), so I needed to change it and apparently almost everything I tried was too similar to my username. After I finally got it working I find out all my consoles were closed which I had shared.

And now I can't seem to load the consoles anymore which I am trying to share with the people I work with.

What the HELL is going on.

Kind regards, Tree

Just to update everyone on this:

• We updated the Django that runs the PythonAnywhere web site and it includes password checking to ensure you don't use obviously insecure passwords. That's for your own safety.
• The console loading thing, we have datermined over email, is that you're using an unsupported and insecure method to share consoles.

We covered the password thing.

But as for the console sharing, is there any way to share a console with people without al the sign-up info. The people using my consoles are not programmers, they simply need to use my applications. So suggesting to let them sign up of even share my login details for my own account (yes seriously, this was suggested to me) is pointless.

Please tell me there is a supported way, and if not, why not..

We do have one supported way of letting anonymous strangers load a console with your code in, and that's gist consoles:

here's a blog post about them: https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/120/

and here's an example: https://www.pythonanywhere.com/gists/5502596/robot.py/ipython3/

Each gist console runs in its own sandboxed environment, so you wouldn't have that problem of users getting full access to your account!

Thank you for the quick replies, I will take a look at it.