Hi all, I have been having some trouble accessing the site recently with a couple of different errors. I just wanted to make sure everything was good and they were just random outages or maintenance perhaps. Or in fact that it wasn't just me? Being from Australia, I do tend to access it in the middle of the night, and upside down at that!
I think we're back! I couldn't get in either for two days, I was getting a "too many requests error" whatever that means. There's been some spam, which is normal, and a ton of members logging in which was very odd.
Actually, after I created this post I was getting the "too many requests" error, although I think I have got at least one other error too, that sadly I didn't write down as I figured it was just going to be a one off. I will let you know if I have any more issues. In a way it is good to know that it is not just something I am experiencing, which sometimes happens possibly due to my VPN.
So after successfully creating another post, I got a "504 Gateway Timeout" when trying to return to the homepage. Refreshing did eventually bring the homepage up again. It kind of feels like a DDoS attack, although I can't imagine why anyone would target this site. I could imagine AI scraping all the info though, so it can give it incorrectly and out of context to the next person using Google search.
Hi fellows, The site has experienced some kind of weird problem but it's fixed now. I'm working with a techician to check what's happening and eventually, if we have funds, make a necessary update to a newer version and maybe migrate to a better server. These days cyber delincuents are agressive and we have to be careful with that.
