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Discussion in 'Feedback & Suggestions' started by David, 9 Oct 2020.

  1. David

    David μoʍ ɼouმ qᴉq λon ƨbԍuq ϝʁλᴉuმ ϝo ʁԍɑq ϝμᴉƨ

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    Is it just me or are Bit pages/forums loading really slowly lately? It's been like this for a couple of days.

    Experienced it on multiple devices on different connections.
     
    David, 9 Oct 2020
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  2. CrapBag

    CrapBag Multimodder

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    Yeh its very sluggish
     
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  3. MLyons

    MLyons 70% Dev, 30% Doge. DevDoge. Software Dev @ Corsair Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    We're aware of it and looking into it. It seems someone is constantly spamming the site pages which is degrading performance. The main site now seems to be fixed but the forums are still suffering.
     
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  4. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    I just assumed it was my internet as its been ghastly for a few weeks now! Took 40 minutes to download 2GB last night!
     
    Bloody_Pete, 9 Oct 2020
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  5. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Was just going to ask the very same question, wasn't sure if it was my phone.
     
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  6. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    I even resorted to asking isup.me about it this morning. They said Bit was down.
     
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  7. Arboreal

    Arboreal Keeper of the Electric Currants

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    Thanks @MLyons, I've noticed it was sluggish this last day or so.
    There seem to be a couple of new spammy looking forum members randomly commenting on old threads too...
    Go get'em boy
     
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  8. MLyons

    MLyons 70% Dev, 30% Doge. DevDoge. Software Dev @ Corsair Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    I think I've fixed it. *grumbles about not having fully migrated to EPYC yet
     
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  9. enbydee

    enbydee Minimodder

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    Seems more responsive for me now.
     
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  10. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Yup much better. Treat time.

    [​IMG]
     
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  11. GaryP

    GaryP RIP Tel

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    @MLyons I can't get to the forum using my Waterfox Classic (2020.09) browser. Worked fine yesterday. I am getting 403 Forbidden message.

    Currently using Chrome which I hate. Works in Palemoon, Firefox and Chrome.
     
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  12. David

    David μoʍ ɼouმ qᴉq λon ƨbԍuq ϝʁλᴉuმ ϝo ʁԍɑq ϝμᴉƨ

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    Huge improvement.

    [​IMG]
     
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  13. MLyons

    MLyons 70% Dev, 30% Doge. DevDoge. Software Dev @ Corsair Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Ahh, yes. The user agent of waterfox is wrong or old then. The spammers were using rotating user agents from old firefox versions. Mainly 3X and 4X so I had to block them temporarily. I'll have a look Monday to see if they've sodded off and I can remove the block.
     
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  14. GaryP

    GaryP RIP Tel

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    Cheers

    I hate the all modern browsers. The ad blockers suck (whilelisted bit-tech before I get screamed at ;)), I have built in ftp client to upload to my servers in waterfox and you cant move the tabs below url bar on modern ones, or if you can its poncing about with css.

    The waterfox classic allows me to to use legacy extensions but is still updated regularly for security.
     
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  15. Xlog

    Xlog Minimodder

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    Waterfox reports as FF56, prob because its based on it.

    Anyhow, one user agent string edit later...
     
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  16. GaryP

    GaryP RIP Tel

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    Still blocked and the redirect page was jumping about earlier, just kept looping.
     
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  17. MLyons

    MLyons 70% Dev, 30% Doge. DevDoge. Software Dev @ Corsair Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Just sorted it for you :thumb:
     
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  18. GaryP

    GaryP RIP Tel

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    Cheers chap...
     
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  19. Big Elf

    Big Elf Oh no! Not another f----ing elf!

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    Thanks, I'm also using Classic Waterfox.
     
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