Forum offline?

[Leberkasbepi]

Since a few days, this forum is in the evening always very hard to reach or don’t load cause I get a host error.

Is this may an issue from the aws service?

[Blyth]

No it's been happening alot sometimes it crawls sometimes it won't load at all and the next time it loads I get logged out.

[Woodstock]

And you can blame a lot of it on spam accounts trying to flood the forum. When there are allegedly 4,000-15,000 people online over the past 5 minutes, you can bet that at least a couple of them are spammers.

[Leberkasbepi]

And you can blame a lot of it on spam accounts trying to flood the forum. When there are allegedly 4,000-15,000 people online over the past 5 minutes, you can bet that at least a couple of them are spammers.

not good

[Billycar11]

And you can blame a lot of it on spam accounts trying to flood the forum. When there are allegedly 4,000-15,000 people online over the past 5 minutes, you can bet that at least a couple of them are spammers.

Our info is just so useful to the ai crawlers

[Woodstock]

Actually, the "official" crawlers are recognized, like Google Bot, Microsoft, etc. The others... not so much.

Things like:

Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot], Woodstock and 160 guests

Or, more generally:

Registered users: Baidu [Spider], Bing [Bot], Google [Bot]

But, there are currently just under 2500 "other users" tonight. Probably 20 of them are real.