[Crimson Dynamo]

Cant just be me?

[Kate!]

It's not just you, I noticed it yesterday evening and it's gotten worse.

[Crimson Dynamo]

[Cherie]

Yeah same for a few days now takes quiet a few seconds for a thread to load

[Mystic Mock]

I had it last night.

[Cherie]

Or to reply to, might be to stop the arguing

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I had it last night.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

[Niamh.]

Yeah, James knows about this, think he's sorted it or is definitely working on it

[Vicky.]

Being a bit better now for me

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Being a bit better now for me

Much better now yes

[James]

It's because all the bots that visit the site are overloading it. I've had to ban whole countries before from accessing it.

I've made the forum member viewable only for the moment.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by James

It's because all the bots that visit the site are overloading it. I've had to ban whole countries before from accessing it.

I've made the forum member viewable only for the moment.

why do they visit?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah, James knows about this, think he's sorted it or is definitely working on it

Good News

[arista]

Originally Posted by James

It's because all the bots that visit the site are overloading it. I've had to ban whole countries before from accessing it.

I've made the forum member viewable only for the moment.

Yes they are buggers



Ban Russia

We have no Russians on this Great Site

[James]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

why do they visit?

You get bots like Google etc. that visit most pages on a site so they can be added to a search engine index. They are usually responsible, and site owners can tell who it is.

But there are irresponsible bots that make themselves look like a normal web browser. They are mostly from China and the far east. Companies like the TIkTok owner ByteDance. They are probably trying to use web pages, including forum posts, to train AI models, so there has been a big increase in them recently.

It's why you see things like this a lot.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by James

You get bots like Google etc. that visit most pages on a site so they can be added to a search engine index. They are usually responsible, and site owners can tell who it is.

But there are irresponsible bots that make themselves look like a normal web browser. They are mostly from China and the far east. Companies like the TIkTok owner ByteDance. They are probably trying to use web pages, including forum posts, to train AI models, so there has been a big increase in them recently.

It's why you see things like this a lot.

urg i hate those crosswalk things

[Ammi]

…if you look at who’s online, there are usually pages of offline viewers…I guessed they must be bots…(…and not our bots, although I do have my eye on him…)…

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…if you look at who’s online, there are usually pages of offline viewers…I guessed they must be bots…(…and not our bots, although I do have my eye on him…)…

He can play numerous instruments while driving a car but he claims he's not really a bot

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

He can play numerous instruments while driving a car but he claims he's not really a bot

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

[Maru]

Some bad actor paid to have a botfarm crawl the site so they can reverse engineer our very special accounts and make AI duplicates... the prophecy was true

[arista]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…if you look at who’s online, there are usually pages of offline viewers…I guessed they must be bots…(…and not our bots, although I do have my eye on him…)…

Yes
Bunch of Scum


Call them Computer Bots

[arista]

[They are mostly from China and the Far East.]


I assume you can not ban China