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After some difficulty accessing yesterday, it was ok 12 hours ago, but now it's just reporting

403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.
You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.

Even just browsing to microchip.com redirects to

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https://www.microchip.com/sitefinity/status?ReturnUrl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.microchip.com%2f

and says

The service is unavailable.

It was up again a few hours ago, then died, and now is redirecting to microchipdirect.com !!!

I had problems also, and then a couple hours ago I was able to access a recent thread and post my reply. But then it replied "Service not available". Now I can access the main page http://www.microchip.com, but when I click on "Support and Training" it redirects to https://www.microchipdirect.com/

Here we go again.
The Microchip forum was getting very sluggish 12 hours ago.
Now it's just returning

Internal Server Error - Read
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Reference #3.554e6168.1606245882.1ea759e9

Maybe Microchip is updating the forum software?

Well, at least this forum is reliable everyday!!

and it just came up again.