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organic
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Joined: 08 Jan 2022, 02:24
Location: Cambridge, UK

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https://discord.gg/tcaYeHDz

join the discord to discuss testing

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bluechris
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Joined: 26 Jun 2019, 20:28
Location: Athens

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The site is rock solid now, thank you guys.

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Steven
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Joined: 19 Aug 2002, 18:32
Location: Belgium

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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.

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chrisc90
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Joined: 23 Feb 2022, 21:22

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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
Mess with the Bull - you get the horns.

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Steven
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Joined: 19 Aug 2002, 18:32
Location: Belgium

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

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chrisc90
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Joined: 23 Feb 2022, 21:22

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I guess that is one of the downsides.
Mess with the Bull - you get the horns.

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Wouter
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Joined: 16 Dec 2017, 13:02

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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.
The Power of Dreams!

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Juzh
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Joined: 06 Oct 2012, 08:45

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Steven wrote:
27 Feb 2025, 09:55
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
Rodak
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Joined: 04 Oct 2017, 03:02

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

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Wouter
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Rodak wrote:
13 Mar 2025, 19:19
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.
The Power of Dreams!

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Wouter
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Wouter wrote:
14 Mar 2025, 14:04
Rodak wrote:
13 Mar 2025, 19:19
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?
The Power of Dreams!

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hollus
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Joined: 29 Mar 2009, 01:21
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

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It’s happening to a lot of people in different devices.
Steven has been made aware of it.
In most cases, the majority is below the average.

GoranF1
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It's loading like in the 90's.....wtf?
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hollus
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Joined: 29 Mar 2009, 01:21
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

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Normally it has been a bot invasion from AI crawlers.
In most cases, the majority is below the average.

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Chuckjr
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Joined: 24 Feb 2012, 08:34
Location: USA

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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.
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