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**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
One issue seems to be our site is sometimes besieged by Robot Pirates! They seek to loot our carefully curated and generated content to feet the belly of Abominable Intelligence!

Now is the time for all MEN to stand up! Will we allow The Machine to deny us our favorite website or will we raise our fists and strike back!

I’m not raising my fists to robot overlords. They’re made of metal, so that’d hurt loads.

I am however a cackhand with a rusty screwdriver. I can reach the parts that really shouldn’t be reached by anyone.

**Overread**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

I am however a cackhand with a rusty screwdriver. I can reach the parts that really shouldn’t be reached by anyone.

So you're saying you're going to be a robot stripper!?

**ZergSmasher**

Dakka's a bit slow for me this evening as well. Maybe Lego should try kicking the server? Percussive maintenance sometimes works best after all.

**DeathKorp_Rider**

Yeah, for most of the day I couldn’t even connect to the site because it was so slow

**Kid_Kyoto**

Younger me rather thought that the robot pirates of the year 2024 would be more impressive looking

**lord_blackfang**

Still impossibly slow, did someone put a crypto miner on the server?

**Shadow Walker**

Today, at first it was not loading at all, later slow motion like on Rebel Moon.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Better today, but patches of slowness.

**Apple fox**

Been able to log in again yay, but been so bad for hours it seems.

**ZergSmasher**

It's like molasses for me right now. Must be a pretty serious DDOS attack or something

**insaniak**

ZergSmasher wrote:
Must be a pretty serious DDOS attack or something

Not an attack, just an ongoing issue with the site being scraped by bots, chewing up resources. Lego has given the server a kick again, but the bot wave will sometimes come and go for a bit.

**DeathKorp_Rider**

Yeah, I unfortunately had another day of connecting at a snail’s pace

**Manfred von Drakken**

I just noticed this at the bottom of the main page:

"Most users ever online was 966,972 on Sun, Apr/28/2024 07:27:16 PM"

That can't be helpful.

**BrookM**

Yeah, when the bots come, they descend upon us like a horde, which will cause the site to grind to a halt and down it.

Part of me wants to say though.. seriously, just a few thousands shy of a million, bring more next time, if you are going to shut us down, might as well make it worthwhile!