Forum Issues – 10.22.2026
tl;dr – the forums are down, and it’s on purpose. We don’t know when they will be back up right now.
Details – two critical vulnerabilities in PHP were announced yesterday. Both allowed remote code execution on an unpatched system. If you’re wondering what that means, it’s bad.
Unfortunately, the KTC Forum software runs on PHP; and yes, we’re vulnerable. We do not have a vendor patch available yet. We’ve taken the Forums offline while we investigate how to deal with this. Until we get a vendor patch, or figure out how we are going to deal with this issue, the Forums will continue to be unavailable.
In the meantime, if you are looking to post roll and make your daily promise not to use nicotine there are several options:
- Our Discord Server: https://www.killthecan.org/discord/
This is our primary support resource these days. If you’re not joined, today would be a great day to join us! - Our Facebook Groups:
- PUBLIC – https://www.facebook.com/groups/killthecan
- PRIVATE (requires approval) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/303063610139605
- KillTheCan Roll Call Blog: https://blog.killthecan.org/
And if you’re looking for other ways to engaged your quit, I’d point you to the following:
- The Kill The Can Podcast
Sometimes reading isn’t enough. Sometimes you need to hear someone else say the things you’re thinking — out loud. The KillTheCan podcast is honest, unscripted, and focused on the realities of quitting
Listen to the Podcast - The Quit Log Email Newsletter
The Quit Log is our free email newsletter, written specifically for people quitting or staying quit from smokeless tobacco. Join The Quit Log (Free)
Stay tuned to this post for further updates.
Thanks for your patience ~ chewie
Updates
- 10/22/2026 – Backups created.
- 10/23/2026 – Upgraded software to current supported version. PHP now upgraded. Security certificates messed up again – making progress and optimistic.
- 10/25/2026 – continuing to make progress and hopeful the forums will be restored. No timetable. Site remains in maintenance mode.
- 10/26/2026 – Forums are up. They’re going to look different, though. This may or may not be ‘fixed’ in the future. You may continue to find ‘weird’ things that aren’t working as they used to. This is due to changes we had to make during upgrade. Please leave comments here and we’ll try to address them.
MASSIVE props to our very own Samrs for getting us back up and running. It never would have gotten done without him. THANK YOU SIR.
