Is anyone else experiencing really slow response times?

[K_N]

I have employed a couple of different anti-bot mitigations. You may see some security verification screens every now and then.

I also identified the source of a lot of the bot traffic from the last 24 hours and blocked their entire ASN.

[Raptorpat]

let's give it a shot, see how it works

[Top Gun]

Ugh...the Cloudflare verification screen gets me stuck in an infinite loop on my browser of choice (Pale Moon). Not your guys' fault at all, it's Cloudshit being Cloudshit and not following basic web standards. Just means more inconvenience for me I guess.

[discolé monade]

2nd cloudfare supported site that required this. 

[The_annoying_one]

No issues on mobile for me so far, but I’m just waiting to see if I have to solve any CAPTCHAs. That’ll be the end for me on this small phone.

[Raptorpat]

4 hours ago, K_N said:

I also identified the source of a lot of the bot traffic from the last 24 hours and blocked their entire ASN.

What was source? Is there a realistic world where blocking that source is sufficient without the added protections or is it inevitable another source just fills that gap?

[PokeNirvash]

Ah, so that explains those verification screens I've been seeing all day.

[K_N]

Yeah, sorry guys. I can try reducing the frequency of the verification screens at least.

But at least its better than no website.

[K_N]

3 hours ago, Top Gun said:

Ugh...the Cloudflare verification screen gets me stuck in an infinite loop on my browser of choice (Pale Moon). Not your guys' fault at all, it's Cloudshit being Cloudshit and not following basic web standards. Just means more inconvenience for me I guess.

For those of you that have static IPs, I should be able to collect a list from the admin panel and exclude you guys from the verification. If we have to leave it on longer than a couple days I'll try to do that.

[K_N]

1 hour ago, Raptorpat said:

What was source? Is there a realistic world where blocking that source is sufficient without the added protections or is it inevitable another source just fills that gap?

Another source just fills the gap. It's mostly people that don't know what they're doing, running AI training that just scrapes every website they find.

The one I blocked was a datacenter for a specific cloud computing company that had been responsible for a lot of the last 24 hours, but that was just one.

[Top Gun]

18 minutes ago, K_N said:

For those of you that have static IPs, I should be able to collect a list from the admin panel and exclude you guys from the verification. If we have to leave it on longer than a couple days I'll try to do that.

Don't think I have a static IP, but do what you have to do to keep the site running. It's more of an issue on Cloudflare's part that's bitten Pale Moon before, and it seems like they pushed some updates that messed things up again. 

[K_N]

The problem with bots is that they try to hide what they are and show as little information as possible. Which is also how most privacy focused browsers appear.

[Top Gun]

Huh, let me through this time.

[Raptorpat]

well that's one problem solved!

[The_annoying_one]

Experiencing somewhat severe slowdown on mobile again tonight. It only appears to be affecting the UEMB for me, so I’m fairly sure it’s not internet problems. No Cloudflare pop-ups so far, though.

[Raptorpat]

I got a few other messages and can also confirm myself. I let KN know and he'll take a look when he has a moment.

[-Kudasai-]

I'm guessing the bots just came flooding in again. 

[discolé monade]

this site is hot hot hot...

for bot bot bots

[-Kudasai-]

Don't know about you guys but this place has been slow to load all day at least for me. I guess it's another round of the invasion of the AI Bots 

[The_annoying_one]

There’s definitely been a little lag on my end, but my internet’s been slow in general the past few days. I thought it was just me, honestly.

[rpgamer]

Have noticed a couple hiccups, but never quite seemed prolonged enough to suggest a new wave, and likewise assumed just choppy internet.

[Raptorpat]

yeah I too had issues

[-Kudasai-]