Update: Blocked users are reporting they can also access Workflowy with our beta products. If you can’t access Workflowy, try using beta.workflowy.com, or the beta desktop app at beta.workflowy.com/downloads/
Unfortunately, some bad actors have started using Workflowy’s sharing feature to publish phishing pages. Last week, this led to us getting miscategorized as a phishing site on a few lists that track these things. Some internet providers then automatically blocked people from accessing Workflowy, to protect their customers from getting phished. I’m sorry if you’re one of the people for whom its been blocked.
If you can’t access Workflowy right now, we recommend you try using your phone as a hotspot when accessing Workflowy for a few days. This has worked for everyone who has tried it so far. I know this isn’t ideal, and we hope the whole issue should otherwise be resolved in a few days.
Here’s what we’re doing about it:
- Before we were blocked, we had already been working on a system to automatically identify and remove these phishing pages. It will be ready in the next few days.
- We’ve also been actively removing every phishing site reported to us, and have been for months. It was a slow trickle, but we noticed a real uptick in the past few weeks and went on red alert.
- We’re reaching out to the services that added us to their lists of phishing sites, asking them to remove us.
Hoepfully this will all be fixed soon.
P.S. Phishing, if you don’t know, is when someone sends you and email pretending to be someone else, to try to get you to give them sensitive information. For example, they’d send you an email saying “Login to Bank of America” but they aren’t Bank of America. When you click the link, you visit a site they’ve made to look like Bank of America, you enter your password, and then they take all your money and move to the Bahamas.