What is going on?

[IdentityUnknown]

The site is really slow today, at least for me. I think it might be connected to the metrics on the homepage showing over 3000 users on the site currently, but each of the forum pages shows only a few dozen, meaning there are thousands of users just accessing the homepage and apparently nothing else.

[Trundle]

I think it's yet another bot attack.

There's no chance it's actually 2500-3000 guests. Someone has been targeting the site with bot attacks for about 18 months now at this point, it's really strange.

[IdentityUnknown]

Yeah, it looks like a denial of service attack this time instead of just ad spam.

[Freesub]

I think it's yet another bot attack.

There's no chance it's actually 2500-3000 guests. Someone has been targeting the site with bot attacks for about 18 months now at this point, it's really strange.

I don't understand the motivation, there is no financial gain to be had here

[Debbifan]

We need to have Cloudflare protection reinstated. That worked well and was minimal hassle for a user.

[IdentityUnknown]

At this point I’m just hoping it gets cleared up soon so I can finish writing the last chapter of my current story.

[gunairre]

We need to have Cloudflare protection reinstated. That worked well and was minimal hassle for a user.

Cloudflare protection is very annoying if you have to use a vpn

[PhilMarlowe]

I use a VPN and am willing to deal with Cloudflare rather than deal with intruders.

/Phil

[Freesub]

We need to have Cloudflare protection reinstated. That worked well and was minimal hassle for a user.

Cloudflare protection is very annoying if you have to use a vpn

Still better than not having the site accessible at all

[gunairre]

We need to have Cloudflare protection reinstated. That worked well and was minimal hassle for a user.

Cloudflare protection is very annoying if you have to use a vpn

Still better than not having the site accessible at all

fair enough