Doom Metal Alchemist Posted September 7, 2025 Posted September 7, 2025 Since yesterday the site has been loading really slowly when I hit refresh on my browser. Usually clicking links doesn't have this effect. This is the only site this is happening on. I'm using Chrome on a Mac. 1 Quote
viperxmns Posted September 7, 2025 Posted September 7, 2025 My brain before coffee amirite I've only been using the site on my phone lately, nothing unusual past 24hrs Quote
The_annoying_one Posted September 7, 2025 Posted September 7, 2025 I’ve noticed the site being completely unresponsive at times. I honestly thought it was just my phone giving me problems, but I’m pretty sure it’s only this site I’ve had issues with. Quote
rpgamer Posted December 17, 2025 Posted December 17, 2025 Bumping because been getting awful load times and timeout errors all day. At first I thought it was just work wifi somehow trying to block access or something. But no, even at home nothing wants to load at all. 1 4 Quote
Top Gun Posted December 17, 2025 Posted December 17, 2025 Yeah, I couldn't even access the site on mobile earlier today, and now on my desktop I'm getting frequent Cloudflare timeout error pages. 1 Quote
André Toulon Posted December 17, 2025 Posted December 17, 2025 i guess it was spotty because I did not really notice until last night. I was slow while i was waiting for my son to get outta school, but its always slow out in BFE, so I thought nothing of it Quote
The_annoying_one Posted December 17, 2025 Posted December 17, 2025 Everything’s working absolutely fine for me today. I probably just seriously jinxed myself here, though. 1 Quote
-Kudasai- Posted January 12 Posted January 12 Is it just me or is this place having loading issues again? 1 Quote
The_annoying_one Posted January 12 Posted January 12 45 minutes ago, -Kudasai- said: Is it just me or is this place having loading issues again? Definitely not just you. It’s been rough the past few days for me. Quote
-Kudasai- Posted January 12 Posted January 12 15 minutes ago, The_annoying_one said: Definitely not just you. It’s been rough the past few days for me. I'm starting to wonder if this a sign. 1 1 Quote
Raptorpat Posted January 13 Posted January 13 I just got hit with slowdown, sending a note to KN 1 1 Quote
-Kudasai- Posted February 7 Posted February 7 I've been experiencing loading issues again for a few days. 1 Quote
Raptorpat Posted February 8 Posted February 8 Yes both mobile and desktop. I sent KN a message earlier today. Quote
SwimOdin Posted March 13 Posted March 13 I'm having issues on mobile, where all the threads load the OP post when I click on a folder. It's causing loading issues. PC is fine and doesn't do this. Quote
The_annoying_one Posted March 13 Posted March 13 The only issue I’ve been having lately is certain posted images not loading properly, but that’s always been par for the course on mobile. Quote
rpgamer Posted March 13 Posted March 13 (edited) No problems previously, but today loading anything is ass on desktop. Edit: seems to have resolved itself. Edited March 13 by rpgamer Quote
The_annoying_one Posted March 14 Posted March 14 Yeah, the site’s barely loading anything at all today, with the occasional Cloudflare Error thrown in for good measure. Case in point, it took over an hour just for me to be able to make this short post. On mobile, if that matters. 1 Quote
-Kudasai- Posted March 18 Posted March 18 On 3/14/2026 at 4:58 PM, -Kudasai- said: Does this site have cancer or something? 1 Quote
The_annoying_one Posted March 18 Posted March 18 I’ve been trying for about 2 hours to get anything at all to load. 1 Quote
katt_goddess Posted March 18 Posted March 18 Can confirm. I'm on a desktop so it's not a mobile thing. 1 Quote
rpgamer Posted March 18 Posted March 18 Feels very intermittent. Like, first visits of the day can be really slow to get going, but then everything settles and just works like normal. Not experienced any prolonged hour+ problems myself. Quote
Raptorpat Posted March 18 Posted March 18 KN is aware and looking into the cause, will follow up. Quote
K_N Posted March 18 Posted March 18 There's been a massive spike in traffic over the last few days - from around 40k unique sessions per day up to 1.2 million on the 14th. Even behind Cloudflare, the server this site runs on and the way it's set up isn't built to handle that kind of traffic. From what I can tell, this is almost entirely AI crawlers - 47% of that traffic came from OpenAI, and another 31% from Anthropic. For the mean time, I've taken a couple easy measures: Gave the database server a little more memory Disabled bot crawling at the domain level (not all of them will respect this) Enabled a bot challenge mode through Cloudflare I am hoping this is enough to mitigate the issue for now, but if you feel like firebombing a datacenter... well, I don't condone terrorism but I would not consider it a demerit to your personal character. I will monitor the effects of these changes for a few days and hopefully it helps. Also, If the Cloudflare bot challenge hits you guys too much and gets annoying let me know, I can try turning it off. 4 Quote
katt_goddess Posted March 20 Posted March 20 Do you want me to bad-touch a datacenter? Because there are days... [ not today per se, the site is working fine ] I just had to replace a router because I fried it and my rubber-coated digital watch is gaining minutes which is usually a signal that I'm feeding it [ and I'm wearing the stupid spy watch because I fused the gears in my favorite analog watch for the second time ]. 1 Quote
K_N Posted March 24 Posted March 24 As far as I can tell, the mitigations seem to be helping. Is anyone still experiencing slowdowns? Quote
K_N Posted April 3 Posted April 3 Thank fuck I did not want to have to go through installing Anubis in front of this site. Quote
-Kudasai- Posted April 11 Posted April 11 (edited) Do the boards have AIDS or something? Edited April 11 by -Kudasai- 1 1 Quote
The_annoying_one Posted April 12 Posted April 12 This is the first time since probably late this morning I’ve been able to get the site to load at all. Fun times. 1 Quote
rpgamer Posted April 12 Posted April 12 (edited) Weirdly seems to run pretty ok on mobile. But desktop has been timing out a lot. Did seen slow on mobile at one point, but haven't had a persistent problem. Retracting, been spotty on mobile, sometimes fine, often not. Edited April 12 by rpgamer Quote
Raptorpat Posted April 12 Posted April 12 KN is aware. It's bots, the site got nearly a million pings today. He's going to figure out something more aggressive. Unrelated- if you don't ask KN about reverse catgirl, reverse catgirl can't hurt you. 1 3 Quote
K_N Posted April 14 Posted April 14 They are absolutely milking our shit raw, man. I need to spend some time looking at the request paths and figuring out how they're causing so many cache misses. The light blue part of that graph hits the server directly and causes these issues - the dark blue is served from cloudflare and doesn't affect us. Quote
crackymckrackin Posted April 14 Posted April 14 Might consider hiding the site behind the log-in. That's the easiest option. Outside of that you'll have to install something that might work until they find a work around. Quote
rpgamer Posted April 17 Posted April 17 Traffic seems up again this morning. Felt a little sluggish at one point last night as well. I'm just kinda taking this as a preview of where the internet is headed, as bots continue to multiply and turn everything into an unusable hellscape.. Quote
Raptorpat Posted April 17 Posted April 17 I am sharing the pessimism right now. It's real frustrating and I can envision an endgame internet where only Meta, Google, Reddit, and Elon Musk have functional sites that can afford to consistently deal with bots. Also possible that I'm just in a foul mood today. Quote
1pooh4u Posted April 17 Posted April 17 This site functions fucked up on mobile threads w too much media don’t load, like the “what song is stuck in your head” thread and I often can’t access the site at all for the last week or so. Quote
Raptorpat Posted April 17 Posted April 17 Yeah KN is trying to figure out how to reduce the demand from the bots. Not sure if turning off any guest access would even fix anything, or if bots will still try to scrape those urls. Quote
katt_goddess Posted April 17 Posted April 17 Couldn't get on at all last night. The entire site loaded as ancient script/BBS as far as I could see when I forced it to load. Everywhere was getting slammed with DDOS bots yesterday but it's been building up. Quote
K_N Posted April 18 Posted April 18 I will be attempting to deploy anubis tomorrow/sunday. We will see how it goes. 2 Quote
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