Site slow loading

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https://discord.gg/tcaYeHDz

join the discord to discuss testing

[bluechris]

The site is rock solid now, thank you guys.

[Steven]

Fingers crossed...

Yesterday caught this meta bot, also new and also for AI learning stuff. That bot crawls from many different IPs, so until you properly recognize them they are registered as separate guests. Over past 3 days we have more than 150K hits from them.

This AI LLM thing is stupid.
I see many people use it because they're too lazy to use their own brain.
And all these bots need to run and consume energy while they put lots of load on all the websites they visit as well.

[chrisc90]

Why not just need access to the forum to register?

If there’s no visible posts to crawl, then surely bandwidth won’t be used?

A lot of forums I visited in the past only had 1 sub forum saying registration needed before full access

[Steven]

If you want to attract visitors / new members by finding your content via search engines than that's a pretty bad idea

[chrisc90]

I guess that is one of the downsides.

[Wouter]

I am sorry to say so but again it takes ages to open a thread and post something since this morning and it is getting worse.

[Juzh]

Fingers crossed...

Yesterday caught this meta bot, also new and also for AI learning stuff. That bot crawls from many different IPs, so until you properly recognize them they are registered as separate guests. Over past 3 days we have more than 150K hits from them.

This AI LLM thing is stupid.
I see many people use it because they're too lazy to use their own brain.
And all these bots need to run and consume energy while they put lots of load on all the websites they visit as well.

I'm in the same boat, these ai crawlers are nuts and they dont respect usual robot blocks in most cases, you have to manually block entire subnets in some cases, driving me crazy.

[Rodak]

Man, someone really doesn't like this site! Very slow again.

[Wouter]

Man, someone really doesn't like this site! Very slow again.

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Here the same since early this morning. Most if the time the site doesn't open at all.

[Wouter]

Man, someone really doesn't like this site! Very slow again.

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Here the same since early this morning. Most of the time the site doesn't open at all.

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502 Bad Gateway

over and over again.

Am I the only one on a PC?

[hollus]

It’s happening to a lot of people in different devices.
Steven has been made aware of it.

[GoranF1]

It's loading like in the 90's.....wtf?

[hollus]

Normally it has been a bot invasion from AI crawlers.

[Chuckjr]

Not complaining, just reporting.

It's the worst I have ever experienced here.
I'm getting 502 errors every other time I click, and it takes about 20 seconds to load a page -- if it loads.
I am in America, pacific coast. Apple products.
Sorry for the trouble. I know you are on it.