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[IntentionalPun]

Couldn't handle the load from the discussion of the latest Jez Corden tweet.

 

[DataGhost]

Getting a lot of cloudflare verification today

 

[AJUMP23]

DDoS attack

That is what I assumed when I saw the security verification.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I didn't think GAF was important enough to be worth DDoSing by someone

We made it to the big leagues???

 

[AJUMP23]

Alien files release. Gaf slows down. This is not a coincidence.

 

[epicurius-seven]

The amount of traffic pissed away by bots infuriates me at times.

One of our client sites (which is a small business that isn't that old and well known) was basically getting smoked every night by them. We ended up just blocking India period and that caught 80% of it. The bots were targeting a particular Wordpress plugin that was difficult to cache due to it being search-result based. I worked out that the bot formatted its url parameters in a slightly unusual order so put a security challenge on that pattern and that caught a lot of the remaining shit.

Cloudflare periodically sends me amusing emails about how alarmingly high a percentage of traffic is being blocked.

 

[bender]

It has been slow for me and I had to verify I am human. How is bender still posting?

EviLore and Palliasso are the best.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

I keep getting Cloudflare screens if I'm a bot every time I try to access the site.

 

[IAmRei]

I keep getting Cloudflare screens if I'm a bot every time I try to access the site.

we are getting attacked by skynet maybe

 

[epicurius-seven]

I suspect the bot farms are masses of cheap android phones, so mobile traffic being more suspect to Cloudflare makes sense.

 

[ReasonBeing]

We're working on sorting things out, in the mean time you may see regular challenge pages.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Don't know how it works, but it's pretty annoying when I keep getting checks when browsing the forum. Shouldn't it make a verification only when you open gaf in your browser tab for the first time?

 

[EviLore]

Don't know how it works, but it's pretty annoying when I keep getting checks when browsing the forum. Shouldn't it make a verification only when you open gaf in your browser tab for the first time?

DDoS attacks aren't very polite