Frequent access problems: “Oops! We ran into some problems"

[Chazmo]

Hi folks,

I see the following frequently. On another forum, it was noted that A.I. bots (or should I just say A.I.s) were putting a tremendous load on that forum. I wonder if the same is happening here? I was just wondering if I was alone in seeing this (could be a networking problem for me)...

 

[Chazmo]

I don’t mind that door. That’s ok.

CloudFlare is annoying because it delays your access by a few seconds. But, as an active user on EBR, I’d rather have that than lose access completely for many minutes at a time.

There may be other way to fend off the AIs with forum software, but I understand it’s trickier than just prohibiting the normal “bots” like Google etc that are easy to identify (if you’re forum software that is).

 

[Roamers]

Disclaimer: I am not a robot.

That's what a robot would say.

 

[Slaphappygamer]

Could be worse. Other sites have been down for days. Brutal

 

[Tars Tarkas]

Wouldn't it be nice if someone from the forum would comment on this?

TT

 

[scrambler]

I sent a message to the forum, but no answer so far.
The only thing that works for me is patience. I leave the page opened, and eventually the message will go away (but sometimes comeback)

 

[Biplaneguy]

Requiring human approval of new members, and restricting new members from posting links, goes a long way towards reducing spam on other forums where I'm a member or moderator.

 

[Art Deco]

Requiring human approval of new members, and restricting new members from posting links, goes a long way towards reducing spam on other forums where I'm a member or moderator.

Both methods were standard @ EBR before it changed management. It's still Electric Bike Review ... sort of.

 

[Art Deco]

Requiring human approval of new members, and restricting new members from posting links, goes a long way towards reducing spam on other forums where I'm a member or moderator.

Both methods were standard @ EBR before it changed management. It's still Electric Bike Review ... sort of.

 

[Art Deco]

Requiring human approval of new members, and restricting new members from posting links, goes a long way towards reducing spam on other forums where I'm a member or moderator.

Both methods were standard @ EBR before it changed management. It's still Electric Bike Review ... sort of.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

It becomes the most annoying...

 

[stompandgo]

The new management is unresponsive. They show up to add more reviews for click cash but do not answer their PM's. All I asked for was a Pinarello subforum. Should take about 2 minutes to create. Nothing. And I suspect, never.

 

[Gionnirocket]

Maybe best if we all gave less of a fl*ock about this and went for a ride. . .

 

[Admin]

All, we apologize for the issues with the forum lately. We have been getting spammed by AI bots as some of you have guessed. Currently we have blocked the latest bot, so hopefully we are good (at least for a while until the next one attacks).

@stompandgo - sorry for not getting that request approved yet. It's done now, again sorry for the delay!

 

[Tars Tarkas]

All, we apologize for the issues with the forum lately. We have been getting spammed by AI bots as some of you have guessed. Currently we have blocked the latest bot, so hopefully we are good (at least for a while until the next one attacks).

@stompandgo - sorry for not getting that request approved yet. It's done now, again sorry for the delay!

Thank you for the update!

 

[stompandgo]

All, we apologize for the issues with the forum lately. We have been getting spammed by AI bots as some of you have guessed. Currently we have blocked the latest bot, so hopefully we are good (at least for a while until the next one attacks).

@stompandgo - sorry for not getting that request approved yet. It's done now, again sorry for the delay!

Thank you!

I'll start moving that thread content over by cut and paste and delete the thread in Other.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

The Forum was inoperable again this morning Central European Time.

 

[Chargeride]

cloudfare doesnt work on mobiles went it asks you to click you are a human, its looking for the mouse movement.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

The Forum was inoperable again again and again today

 

[Chazmo]

cloudfare doesnt work on mobiles went it asks you to click you are a human, its looking for the mouse movement.

Charge, there are a lot of downsides for the forum owners with cloudflare which will probably deter them from going that way, including the fact that they have to point the internet DNSs to cloudflare rather than the site itself. Anyway, we’ll see. I too had an outage this morning.

 

[BEC111]

It was out earlier, and several days ago. Perhaps a ISA thing as Europeans had access the last time.

Perhaps the new company is doing some platform renovations.