Slow forums?

[BloodyIron]

I can't find a better place to put this, but why are the forums so painfully slow? I don't know when this started, but traversing the forum, searching for stuff, posting a thread or comment, all of it is painfully slow. What's up with that?

 

[leesteken]

Although there have been a lot of duplicate threads and especially posts (since the message was "something went wrong; try again") due to the slowness, it appears to be fixed now.

 

[chrcoluk]

Sadly still slow now, I have got used to not resubmitting posts at least, so wont be more duplicates from me.

 

[Impact]

I've noticed editing posts not really progressing/finishing a lot too these past few days.

 

[Neobin]

Still an up and down. Sometimes it is normally fast and then really slow again.

Friendly ping: @t.lamprecht

 

[fabian]

like many other sites and pieces of public infrastructure, ours is getting hammered by AI scrapers/bots as well. we try our best to implement counter measures, but it's a constant game of whack-a-mole.

 

[BloodyIron]

like many other sites and pieces of public infrastructure, ours is getting hammered by AI scrapers/bots as well. we try our best to implement counter measures, but it's a constant game of whack-a-mole.

That's understandable. Some of my own websites get torn to shreds for things like that too. I just wasn't sure if a database was angry or something like that, and wasn't sure how to better raise a flag about it. Sorry you folks have to deal with that

 

[UdoB]

It's Sunday evening and there is no joy to use this forum. Basically it is unusable, at least in this very moment. (Or is it just me???)

Just put the bad actors (Coudflare, Google, etc) on a hard blacklist and/or create a whitelist with European AS' and dial-up address ranges!

Yeah, not practicable... :-(

 

[daanw]

There are plenty of good (dynamic) blacklists available, but my guess is it that the measures that fabian mentioned already include those.

 

[fabian]

It's Sunday evening and there is no joy to use this forum. Basically it is unusable, at least in this very moment. (Or is it just me???)

like I said - this is a global problem the last few months (well, a bit longer now already I guess). anything with dynamic content that basically allows endless possibilities to query (like git forges, forums, ...) are hit particularly hard, because the scrapers do not care about scraping in a smart fashion, and generating responses is expensive.

Just put the bad actors (Coudflare, Google, etc) on a hard blacklist and/or create a whitelist with European AS' and dial-up address ranges!

Yeah, not practicable... :-(

if only it were that easy. our admins try their best!