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RustyOldNail
SEARCH for the treasure...
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.
BeltedCoyote
Well-Known Member
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.
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
Well-Known Member
Makes sense. Thanks for doing what you do Pak
Bakin4Life
Oink
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)
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.
www.technologyreview.com
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.
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.
Numerous_Nothing
Well-Known Member
Same results here. I’m on another forum that sometimes has the same problem, due to the same problem (bots), but not as frequently.
RustyOldNail
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This amount of disruption is fairly recent, within the past week. Haven’t seen this on other forums. Just now I couldn’t log in for over an hour. Hopefully something can be done to fix this.
666Honeybadger
Unknown member
The forum is owned by @vtac but he has been absent for some time. Initially it was funded by a limited group of sponsors but I am not sure if that is still the case.
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.
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.
Other sites have gotten some relief from Cloudflare but it by no means a complete solution. While I said @vtac has been absent, I am in contact with him and he has implemented some blocking. I don't think it was Cloudflare.
4.562 guests?
Does this mean there's over 4.000 bots browsing/occupying this site?
Yes. Blame AI.
RustyOldNail
SEARCH for the treasure...
2:15 pm EST.
After a full hour, finally able to view site. It’s getting out of control, as site is getting to be unusable.
After a full hour, finally able to view site. It’s getting out of control, as site is getting to be unusable.
TigoleBitties
Big and Bouncy
Right now the guests are down to 116 although they were over 5000 a few minutes ago. Wondering if the IP blockers do a sweep every so often? 