2025 technical issues (logon delays, Cloudflare, blanks, redirects; SEPTEMBER)

[pixelgeek]

Yes, if I was on a laptop I could do that. On iOS I have to move the photo to Files and then convert it.

The Files app in iOS has an option to rename the file. Select it in Files and then either do a long press or select the "..." menu. There is a rename option there

[Lost Egg]

I'm only seeing this happen routinely with LAF emails, though an occasional email from elsewhere does sometimes end up in junk; but every email from LAF has gone there for a while now. I keep marking them as safe, and perhaps the message will get through eventually... It's a very minor problem, though. Otherwise things are pretty much back to normal, and many thanks again for fixing this.

It's the same for me, no other emails (that I want) are going to Junk. As Severian says it's not a big problem in the grand scheme of things.

[Severian]

Just to say that I had a notification email arrive in my inbox this afternoon, rather than going to junk as they've been doing for a few weeks now. So that's good.

[Lost Egg]

Same here...in fact it was the notification of Severian's post which did it. Earlier in the day they all went straight to junk.

[WargamesIllustrated]

Hi all,

Lil update!

We were missing some DNS records after moving to Cloudflare. That's sorted now, so you should (as many of you have reported) start seeing emails fly into your inbox.

Additionally, I would like to note that I am currently working on upgrading and migrating LAF to a new host in the background. It'll take some time as I'm the only one working on it, but expect cool stuff on the horizon (given everything goes to plan)! EDIT: The site will still be live until I'm ready to pull the trigger on the move, so don't worry about downtime.

Thanks for your patience thus far!

Cheers once again,
Joe

[Lost Egg]

Thanks for all your help Joe, I doff my cap to you sir.

[Mammoth miniatures]

Unrelated to LAF but I have noticed quite a few sites I frequent now showing the same captcha validation page as here, where previously there had been nothing of the sort. Someone mentioned the lots of sites are currently facing massing strain from the amount of bot accounts viewing them to scrape content, so is this a widely rolled out defense against that?

[fred]

Yes, Cloudflare is a very widely used method of protecting websites (as well as offering other functions). So it will crop up a lot around the internet.

[Ben Waterhouse]

I can log on fine on my PC (here I am), but I keep getting in a loop with the "verify you're a human" page on my iPad.

Solutions'?
Ta
Ben

[fred]

I often use an iPad to access LAF and it’s fine

I’ve had more instances of the verifying page today than for ages. I think just keep retrying. It maybe cloud flare is detecting more bad activity today and screening at a higher level. I also think CF will learn about devices to understand if they are trusted.

[Ben Waterhouse]

Just checked, Still in a loop. Been like this for a couple of hours now.

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Did the same to me but has let me in now.

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain

[has.been]

It gave me the run around for several hours.

[WargamesIllustrated]

Hi all,

Last night (around 3 am onwards), we got bot crawled again by a new set using "Yandex".

I had to get our host to restart the web server today to get it back online. Currently, I have Cloudflare on the "Under Attack" (which is why you're seeing lots of verification pages), and I've blocked where those bots are coming from, but it seems that these bots keep switching up their tactics and come from different places every few weeks. A real shame, but I'm on it! Thanks for your patience thus far!

Thanks,
Joe

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Well done Joe. Keep up the good work!

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain