“Oops! We ran into some problems.”

[old-fart]

“An error occurred while the page was being generated. Please try again later.”

Anyone else seeing these messages here?
Anyone know what the issue is and if help (money, expertise, advice) is needed?

 

[RustyOldNail]

“An error occurred while the page was being generated. Please try again later.”

Anyone else seeing these messages here?
Anyone know what the issue is and if help (money, expertise, advice) is needed?

Been happening several times a day, site will not load, I come back later and often site loads fine. I’m using Safari on an iPad, and have not changed my internet settings.

 

[dimmusp]

Same here, with different browsers and devices.

 

[BeltedCoyote]

Yeah. Just had that not 5 minutes ago. Seems to happen daily, although I personally haven't noticed a pattern to the timing of the events.

 

[pakalolo]

This is caused by an internal table oveflow when we get swamped by bots. IP blocks have been put in place to alleviate the problem but of course the bots eventually switch to new IPs. It is a struggle that has been affecting many forums, not just ours.

 

[BeltedCoyote]

This is caused by an internal table oveflow when we get swamped by bots. IP blocks have been put in place to alleviate the problem but of course the bots eventually switch to new IPs. It is a struggle that has been affecting many forums, not just ours.

Makes sense. Thanks for doing what you do Pak

 

[Bakin4Life]

Anyone know what the issue is and if help (money, expertise, advice) is needed?

I see the cause is known; my question is about funding. How is this site funded? I've never seen a 'donate' page, etc., and I know web hosting costs money. Does the site owner(s) pay for the whole ride themselves? (if so, we owe them a debt of gratitude).

(mods: if this is confidential, don't answer here; just curiosity, on my part. Thx)

 

[florduh]

The CIA doesn't want The People to know about cannabis vaporization

 

[zeebudz]

All the time. Very unstable site.

The banner

We are experiencing temporary outages. Keep trying, it does recover. We hope to rectify this as soon as possible.

seems to be a permanent fixture at this point.

 

[zeebudz]

This is caused by an internal table oveflow when we get swamped by bots. IP blocks have been put in place to alleviate the problem but of course the bots eventually switch to new IPs. It is a struggle that has been affecting many forums, not just ours.

Maybe cloudflare can help?

Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites

The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can access their sites.

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