Forum is crawling again

[manly]

I've noticed a lot of sites using more and more cloudflare captchas lately, especially any time I try to browse videocardz on my phone. Is there something happening on the internet in general? If videocardz is holding behind cloudflare captcha for mobile users, and with the AT forums lagging, I would assume there is some kind of spam bot-net being deployed against tech sites en-masse.

If this were some kind of forum software problem like we hit some kind of overflow with the number of concurrent users, posts, or threads, I doubt it'd be intermittent like it is.

Really feels like DDOS, but maybe its just Occam's razor? Some bad browser plugin could be making people refresh more than they should?

Ok this is it. It's DDOS. It has to be.

I assumed DDoS, but we have no way of knowing.

 

[sdifox]

Lol timing out again

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

What is the super secret symbol to the right of the title?

When it doesn't load right and only part of the graphics appear, I get this:


What's with the crossy type alternating tombstoney things?

 

[Markfw]

timing out again. slow.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Someone is using the forums to train their AI model

Hmmmm

What's with the crossy type alternating tombstoney things?

Looks like sliders from audio equipment.

 

[lantis3]

Think most people here feel like:

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Sliders are from White Castle, no?

 

[Greenman]

I kind of like the new crawling not loading AnandTech. On the rare occasion that it actually loads and works it's like a little surprise. Sort of like finding the prize in a box of Crackerjacks.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I kind of like the new crawling not loading AnandTech. On the rare occasion that it actually loads and works it's like a little surprise. Sort of like finding the prize in a box of Crackerjacks.

-My dopamine receptors are burning out fast...

Edit: OMG its working! Its like finding the one working bathroom on the internet to spew my mental diarrhea as fast as I can

 

[BFG10K]

Is this site hosted on a dial-up 56K modem or something? Sure feels like it.

 

[lantis3]

Forum feels peppy now.

Hope it won't be haunted again.

 

[mindless1]

For the first time in days, site loaded normal/fast for me.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Yup seems to be working.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Big improvement now, hope it lasts.

 

[mindless1]

Didn't last, c r a w l i n g a g a i n

 

[sdifox]

Working fine here

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Here fine working.

 

[Shmee]

Yeah still good for me.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

All good here.

Happy to sacrifice @mindless1 's connection if it means its smooth sailing for the rest of us!

 

[DrMrLordX]

Same! Works here, for now.

 

[mindless1]

Working better today... at least this one time I've tried.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Working better today... at least this one time I've tried.

Was it that one time at band camp?

 

[mindless1]

The first rule of band camp is you do not talk about band camp!

 

[DrMrLordX]

The first rule of band camp is you do not talk about band camp!

I'll keep that in mind the next time I'm attempting to access the AT forums from band camp during a major site slowdown.

 

[Markfw]

It was good for hours. Now its back to 30 seconds per screen redraw.