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Hey. All slowed down again.

920,000 Guests. Keelhauling the forum. Arrrr!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Hey. All slowed down again.

920,000 Guests. Keelhauling the forum. Arrrr!

Hmmmm.

There appears to be nine of me here.

That's not far off the forums biggest membership load of 1,157,655 users on 2025/03/24

I thought it was just me as other internet sites were running slow too. But yeah 950,000 "users".

Overread wrote:That's not far off the forums biggest membership load of 1,157,655 users on 2025/03/24

There's always a small part of me that wants to see that record broken.

Lathe Biosas wrote:Hmmmm.

There appears to be nine of me here.

Do we really need nine of you?

A few other users also showing up multiple times.

Grabbed a screen shot in case it’s settled by the time the mods and Lego start looking into it,

NEW RECORD SET!

Currently sitting a smidge over 1.6 million. So beat the previous record by 450,000. Not a bad effort scraper bots.


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As an aside, we currently have 3 Kid_Kyoto's online. Maybe now that he's been cloned, we can tackle the gallery?

If that screenshot was taken at 01:25 UK time, I'm surprised I'm listed as a "connected user". I would've been asleep in bed and the laptop was turned off.

Oh, so that is why it's taking 10-15 seconds to load each page.

Well at least we know what the new server can take now! I've given it a kick and I'll start the IP bans if we get another wave!

 Snrub wrote:

Lathe Biosas wrote:Hmmmm.

There appears to be nine of me here.

Do we really need nine of you?

Given his secret connection to Tzeentch? Yes.

 legoburner wrote:
Well at least we know what the new server can take now! I've given it a kick and I'll start the IP bans if we get another wave!

Blessed be legoburner's potion of speed!

There've been some outages, I'll let Lego speak to them, but the line "banned 3 million IPs" was used.

You banned a whole country?!

Before anyone says it, yeah we had some slowness again earlier today, but it should be alright again now, we apologise for any inconvenience.

 BrookM wrote:
Before anyone says it, yeah we had some slowness again earlier today, but it should be alright again now, we apologise for any inconvenience.

Still seeing it. But it might just be me.

 Nevelon wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Before anyone says it, yeah we had some slowness again earlier today, but it should be alright again now, we apologise for any inconvenience.

Still seeing it. But it might just be me.

Well gak, just when I thought things were getting better, they're back with a vengeance.



I hate those fething bots so much right now..

Any chance of banning the Obvious Chat Bot as well?

Ironically this thread was really slow to load for me.

I had to refresh this thread three times to get past the server errors, so yeah.

God damn abominable intelligences.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Any chance of banning the Obvious Chat Bot as well?

Which one? I can think of two on the board.

UR-205 or whatever.

It's definitely bogged down for me too, and Chrome has kept having trouble loading the site. I don't see a massive number of online users though (certainly not in the neighborhood of 1.5 million or whatever from before)

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
UR-205 or whatever.

You think an AI is clever enough to disguise himself as an AI who disguised himself as a robot?

If so, that's brilliant!

Pages are still loading a little slowly for me. Not painfully slow, just slower then usual.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Any chance of banning the Obvious Chat Bot as well?

I wouldn't be sad to see that account removed. His banal responses shan't be missed.

Actually kinda surprised he's lasted this long to be honest. Thought he would have been nixed pretty quickly.

 Dysartes wrote:
Which one? I can think of two on the board.

Who's the other chatbot?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
You think an AI is clever enough to disguise himself as an AI who disguised himself as a robot?

If so, that's brilliant!

Given the cheeky name and profile pic, I did wonder whether it was a human posing as an AI posing as a human who was doing it for gits and shiggles. While the posts are painfully AI generated, the rate of posting isn't as prolific as you might expect for a bot. I'd have thought it'd be well into the hundreds of posts by now.

Snails pace for me again.

Yup.
26,390+ users, but only 90ish registered

 skrulnik wrote:
Yup.
26,390+ users, but only 90ish registered

It’s been orders of magnitudes worse, with over a million guest bots hitting the system.

Things seem fine for me now, but who knows if it will last.

Edit:
Amd back to slow and lagging.

Yeah, we're still getting hammered hard, it's a struggle for me to navigate anything right now due to the many pages not loading, impossible to go through my alerts and other tasks, bleh.

I feel so bad for legoburner having to fight back a whole internet full of hype-crazed venture companies looking to scrape every site they can find.

This fad can't end soon enough.