Error 522

[Cuddy2977]

Is anyone else getting #522 errors, trying to get through to the forums?

Lots of timed out connections, and suchlike?

It’s VERY frustrating!

[Billycar11]

yes everyone is running into this
ai scraper bots are likely causing it
and yet the ai still helps people brick their drives everyday i get so many emails about this

[Jack_The_Ripper]

Yes, it's awful. Make it stop.

Took me 15mins just to get to the page where I could type this reply (and the page is still not finished loading). Who knows how long before I can successfully post it.

[Cuddy2977]

Have we heard anything more about this?

[harborless-accept5]

Many forums now have a Cloudflare "Verify you are human" check before you can access them now because of the AI crawlers.

[Cuddy2977]

Many forums now have a Cloudflare "Verify you are human" check before you can access them now because of the AI crawlers.

The problem there … ?

Is that I’m seeing no sign of a verify page

And the Connection Time Out pages I’m getting, are saying the issue is with the forum, not with Cloudflare … 

[Jack_The_Ripper]

Many forums now have a Cloudflare "Verify you are human" check before you can access them now because of the AI crawlers.

There is no such check with a 522 error, which is what appears. A 522 error by definition is mostly about origin server overload, which is almost entirely the site's problem to fix, and the "verify you are human" check is a different mechanism that doesn't apply here.

The diagnostic tell is in my own observation: I'm seeing a Cloudflare-branded error page. That can only happen if my connection to Cloudflare succeeded. So the break is downstream of me — between Cloudflare and the origin — not between myself and Cloudflare.

There is essentially nothing frontend users can do to resolve a genuine 522, because the failure point isn't anything we control.

The one cheap thing worth doing is falsifying the alternative, i.e. confirm the break really is origin-side and not a local artifact. Try a different network or device (I have), or check whether others report the same (they obviously have lo). It fails identically everywhere, which confirms origin, and we're now just waiting on the admin.

[Cuddy2977]

Many forums now have a Cloudflare "Verify you are human" check before you can access them now because of the AI crawlers.

There is no such check with a 522 error, which is what appears. A 522 error by definition is mostly about origin server overload, which is almost entirely the site's problem to fix, and the "verify you are human" check is a different mechanism that doesn't apply here.

The diagnostic tell is in my own observation: I'm seeing a Cloudflare-branded error page. That can only happen if my connection to Cloudflare succeeded. So the break is downstream of me — between Cloudflare and the origin — not between myself and Cloudflare.

There is essentially nothing frontend users can do to resolve a genuine 522, because the failure point isn't anything we control.

The one cheap thing worth doing is falsifying the alternative, i.e. confirm the break really is origin-side and not a local artifact. Try a different network or device (I have), or check whether others report the same (they obviously have lo). It fails identically everywhere, which confirms origin, and we're now just waiting on the admin.

That’s one of the first things I did, @Jack_The_Ripper

The first thing I did was check if I could get through on the other browsers I use: I couldn’t.

I also checked with other accounts on my machine, AND on my phone and tablet: again, I got a 522 error, or a connection timed out message