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       #Post#: 26317--------------------------------------------------
       Forum Slowdown
       By: Jordan Date: April 15, 2025, 9:41 am
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       Hey there,
       We appear to be experiencing slow downs and time-outs on our
       forum
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       , are there any known issues
       with the service?
       Pings are coming back normal but load time seems to be degraded
       across multiple users trying to register.
       Most users are generally location within the Ontario area of
       Canada
       Update as of 10:45am EST:
       Getting 503 Service Unavailable errors
       Update as of 11:43am EST:
       Services seem to be stabilizing but some users have reported a
       loop while attempting to register, specifically around agreeing
       to registration terms.
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       Re: Forum Slowdown
       By: CreateAForum Date: April 15, 2025, 11:09 am
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       See this discussion..  But yes this due to bots. If this
       continues I will resume blocking china and other places that
       custom these bots to occur.
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       #Post#: 26319--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Forum Slowdown
       By: Jordan Date: April 15, 2025, 1:12 pm
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       Understood thanks for the response!
       #Post#: 26320--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Forum Slowdown
       By: TaoGem Date: April 15, 2025, 5:21 pm
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       All good, no problems for both my forums.
       #Post#: 26321--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Forum Slowdown
       By: animaniactoo Date: April 15, 2025, 8:52 pm
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       I did not realize how many of my members were struggling with
       this until we had the major slowdown today and then someone
       mentioned having some regular issues.
       I posted a thread for future troubleshooting/reporting efforts
       since you can't do much if you don't know about it, so I figured
       the first step was data collection. I received more responses
       than I expected, and cherrypicking what to report is probably
       not as useful as giving you the ability to read it yourself
       so...
       This is the link to the thread:
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       #Post#: 26323--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Forum Slowdown
       By: CreateAForum Date: April 15, 2025, 11:04 pm
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       China and Hong Kong blocked again bots are just too bad... and
       too many ip ranges which don't make it easy to block at all.
       #Post#: 26324--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Forum Slowdown
       By: TaoGem Date: April 16, 2025, 1:34 am
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       [quote author=CreateAForum link=topic=6972.msg26323#msg26323
       date=1744776264]
       China and Hong Kong blocked again bots are just too bad... and
       too many ip ranges which don't make it easy to block at all.
       [/quote]
       Disappointing for sure but do appreciate you having given it a
       whirl.
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       Re: Forum Slowdown
       By: animaniactoo Date: April 17, 2025, 9:02 am
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       Just confirming that the issues seem to have cleared up. Will
       report back if needed.
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       Re: Forum Slowdown
       By: animaniactoo Date: April 18, 2025, 8:03 am
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       Unfortunately back to say that the worst of it has cleared up,
       but there are still intermittent problems.
       Members are continuing to report including screenshots of the
       error messages they are receiving. Please see this thread on our
       forum for more information:
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