Forum slowdown

[Zefan]

We've been hit by an AI Bot swarm, over 60,000 of them hammering every thread on the site. Working on it now.

So I was sort of right........

 

[Things change I've changed]

The pictures always downloaded loaded from the top so you had to wait till it got down to the juicy bits then it would time out and stop downloading just before

I saw the post before the edit

 

[visibleman]

We've been hit by an AI Bot swarm, over 60,000 of them hammering every thread on the site. Working on it now.

They're a menace but luckily Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth helps a lot.

 

[Kelt]

Seems to be OK now.

 

[squerble]

They're a menace but luckily Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth helps a lot.

Until Cloudflare become the single point of failure for the whole web.

 

[john_smith]

We've been hit by an AI Bot swarm, over 60,000 of them hammering every thread on the site. Working on it now.

Hungry for DRAM deals.

 

[Dis86]

Now that feek got his Kylie hotpants he's not been in his hamster wheel anymore

Ffs man, will you stop with the disturbing imagery?!

 

[Dis86]

We've been hit by an AI Bot swarm, over 60,000 of them hammering every thread on the site. Working on it now.

Thats just me refreshing.

 

[Hagar]

Still sometimes takes at least two goes to load the forum.

 

[unwashed potato!]

We've been hit by an AI Bot swarm, over 60,000 of them hammering every thread on the site. Working on it now.

What a fun time to be alive. This sounds like something from a Hollywood movie.

I'm curious how you solve a problem like this. Given there would already be measures to deal with it that this bot swarm has bypassed?

 

[Diddums]

Ffs man, will you stop with the disturbing imagery?!

Sorry dude, I'm sure once Feek is done having a tug in his golden hotpants things will be back to normal.

 

[Liquiduk]

Just take the extra time to appreciate the forum and what it's been providing us year after year.

 

[visibleman]

Until Cloudflare become the single point of failure for the whole web.

 

[kindai]

They're a menace but luckily Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth helps a lot.

We just geo blocked Brazil and India where 99% of them were coming from.

I'm curious how you solve a problem like this. Given there would already be measures to deal with it that this bot swarm has bypassed?

These swarms generally all originate from specific data centers, so either identify the ip ranges and block them or just geo block the whole location.

You can employ more technical and specific targetting, but when a site being being taken down from what is a Ddos attack, the blunt approach is usually the best to get things working for the 99% again.

To be honest I am surprised class actions havent been launched against these companies because the damage they are doing is extremely costly.

 

[Kelt]

We just geo blocked Brazil and India where 99% of them were coming from.



These swarms generally all originate from specific data centers, so either identify the ip ranges and block them or just geo block the whole location.

You can employ more technical and specific targetting, but when a site being being taken down from what is a Ddos attack, the blunt approach is usually the best to get things working for the 99% again.

To be honest I am surprised class actions havent been launched against these companies because the damage they are doing is extremely costly.

What is the purpose behind these attacks...just griefing, or something else?

 

[kindai]

What is the purpose behind these attacks...just griefing, or something else?

Data harvesting for AI training. They arent malicious in intent so to speak but the behaviour make them act like a Ddos.

 

[shifty_uk]

Data harvesting for AI training. They arent malicious in intent so to speak but the behaviour make them act like a Ddos.

Yes, not ideal. Even Facebook quietly started scraping websites last year, it’s a pain.

 

[robj20]

Still seems to be going fairly slow for me.

 

[Dis86]

Still seems to be going fairly slow for me.

Just keeps failing to load for me

 

[mrk]

It's not slow you're just clicking too fast and stuff innit.