Has anyone gotten this error while on this site...

fishguy242 · Dec 27, 2023

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revhtree · Dec 27, 2023

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal said:
I hope you know I'm posting feedback as requested and not just complaining

Oh I know and thank you for this feedback...all of you! It helps us see issues faster and gives us some data to use to try and understand what's going on.

revhtree · Dec 28, 2023

Got a fix in that hopefully will help mitigate this! Will know more tomorrow. Thanks for your patience and reports!

AydenLincoln · Dec 28, 2023

I get this more often than not. But if I wait a bit I know it comes back.

revhtree · Dec 28, 2023

Ok I'm pretty confident we have made a major breakthrough in resolving these slow downs and timeouts. We were getting hammered by BOTS at different times during the day and we put some deterrents in place that didn't work that well. Created some new firewall rules as well a couple other "deterrents" and it seems we have been able to thwart most of these abusive bot requests.

For example: In the last 24hrs our deterrents have stopped 60K requests from ONE abusive bot alone!

BeanAnimal · Dec 28, 2023

revhtree said:
Ok I'm pretty confident we have made a major breakthrough in resolving these slow downs and timeouts. We were getting hammered by BOTS at different times during the day and we put some deterrents in place that didn't work that well. Created some new firewall rules as well a couple other "deterrents" and it seems we have been able to thwart most of these abusive bot requests.

For example: In the last 24hrs our deterrents have stopped 60K requests from ONE abusive bot alone!

Do you think any of this is DDoS or is are we assuming scrapers from a certain nations known to abuse scrapers designed to index site content and remonetize, or for AI food to mine both content and personal data?
Is XenForo being helpful?

Site scraping is becoming a huge issue and the tactics are getting extremely hard to block as bots use AI to IP and useragent hop (sometimes with every request).