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

[Mikai]

That's the normal cloudfare which I am used to from another forum. Happens only at the login for me.

[Atheling]

Yup, had it several times. Mostly it just moves on, but I did have to tick the "I'm not a robot" box at one of them. If captchas start to appear, rude words will be uttered!

Well, as long as it keeps us "safe", stops Spam etc I'm OK with it.

[WargamesIllustrated]

Hi all,

Just another update:

I had to clear out some database tables due to bots overloading the error logs and all sorts. One of the tables emptied was "smf_topics", which housed what members have read what posts (among other things). I have a table backup stored from 2 June on my local machine at the office, but I won't have access to this until Monday, so I will reinstate that as soon as possible then.

As for the emails going into spam folders, I'll investigate this further on Monday as well.

Despite these things, hopefully, the Lead Adventure Forum is better now with the changes and fewer bots being annoying. If you have more feedback, let me know!

Cheers!

[Belligerentparrot]

Just wanted to say thanks, WI, for all your work on this.

I used to look at another forum, a bit more niche than LAF for sure (was for fans of a once-great band that can't keep its shit together), that recently got overrun with bots and had to close down completely.

So I very much appreciate your efforts to keep LAF going, as I'm sure we all do.

[zemjw]

guests had dropped to double figures last night, so that helped

However, they're sitting at 3494 and climbing this morning 

Looks like they're not done with us yet. I do wonder what sort of AI they're going to get out of slurping all our posts 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Thank you for sorting this out, I am sure we can cope with working out what we have read until Monday.

Looks like they're not done with us yet. I do wonder what sort of AI they're going to get out of slurping all our posts 

Scary, imagine an AI version of Carlos ^___^.

[Poiter50]

Scary, imagine an AI version of Carlos ^___^.

 

[Poiter50]

On that, I have articles/posts that I have read before coming through even if I have read them and they come through at the start of the article.

[carlos marighela]

Thank you for sorting this out, I am sure we can cope with working out what we have read until Monday.Scary, imagine an AI version of Carlos ^___^.

No need to imagine..... and thank you for subscribing to Skynet.

[has.been]

Just finished clearing (one at a time  )messages I have already read, three pages of them !!!

[Dean]

Sadly I am now getting a path can’t be blank message when I try to attach a picture.

[Dice Roller]

Every time I come here I get a page saying it wants to verify I'm human.
Every time.

[bc99]

Every time I come here I get a page saying it wants to verify I'm human.
Every time.

Same.

[YPU]

Interesting, I've had it once and never since. I wonder if cloudflare marks specific IP clusters as having suspicious levels of visits and makes all of them verify or some other consideration like that, or if its just being a bother randomly for some.

[Spinal Tap]

Every time I come here I get a page saying it wants to verify I'm human.
Every time.

That will be to filter out the bots. There are now only 130 guests on rather than the 14,000 that were there sometimes last week.