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SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 6:26 pm
by d0uevenlift
As most of you already know, we had a temporary outage of the site due to spammers and bots hitting our site and search function really hard. Our host temporarily disconnected us because it was a strain on the CPU (we have a shared server).
For now, we have temporarily disabled search, and we have restricted search to registered forum users only. This means that guests and bots and spammers will no longer be able to use search once it's back up and running normally later this week.
In the meantime, we apologize for the inconvenience of both the outage and the search feature, but it will come back in no time.
If you have any suggestions or would like to offer help, please DM me.
If you just want to complain or vent, please DM @mgil.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 6:32 pm
by chromoly
WHAT!
I maintain that we are too popular for our own good.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 6:45 pm
by d0uevenlift
Posts and responses work, but frustratingly, you get an error message first, then you see the post. I'm working on it.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 6:57 pm
by BostonRugger
Anyone know what the goals are for people who set up bots for this type of thing? Is it intentionally focused on one site? I don’t see what there is to gain.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 7:08 pm
by PatrickDB
Do any of those bots have Texas IPs?
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 7:13 pm
by BenM
They're just search engine crawlers mostly I would've thought, with possibly the occasional vulnerability scanner looking for out of date software to exploit.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 7:43 pm
by Wilhelm
Minor note for when the main stuff is fixed, topics stay highlighted after you post in them. You have to click your own post to have the highlighting switch off.
Just something i noticed. Not needing anything done about it.
Thanks, Marc.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:14 pm
by AaronM
#fakenews
Y'all are restricting search to unregistered users just to make them register and increase your member count
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:14 pm
by DirtyRed
For whatever reason, I'm getting some "General Error" screen every time I try to post. The post actually goes through, it just seems to be the redirect back into the thread in question that fails. I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, it COULD just be Firefox: The Web Browser That Gets Worse With Every Update.
ETA:
General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]
Unknown column 'word_id' in 'field list' [1054]
An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board Administrator if this problem persists.
^
That's the error message.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:15 pm
by AaronM
EDIT - I'm getting the General Error^ as well...
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 11:54 pm
by PatrickDB
Notifications (mentions) seem to be broken, as well.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 3:41 am
by EricK
d0uevenlift wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2018 6:26 pm
As most of you already know, we had a temporary outage of the site due to spammers and bots hitting our site and search function really hard. Our host temporarily disconnected us because it was a strain on the CPU (we have a shared server).
For now, we have temporarily disabled search, and we have restricted search to registered forum users only. This means that guests and bots and spammers will no longer be able to use search once it's back up and running normally later this week.
In the meantime, we apologize for the inconvenience of both the outage and the search feature, but it will come back in no time.
If you have any suggestions or would like to offer help, please DM me.
If you just want to complain or vent, please DM mgil.
Not sure if it's related, but I tried to send a PM, and it looks like it disappeared. I'm willing to help if there's anything I can do.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:55 am
by damufunman
Looks like notifications for quotes aren't working. Can anybody confirm this?
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:47 am
by AaronM
I just updated my log, and it shows up at the top of "new posts", but is still on page 2 of "your posts". Also, I still get that "General Error" after every post.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:59 am
by Manveer
Yep, we’re aware. Just no time to address these issues yet.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:29 am
by slowmotion
I don't care if there still is "Issues", I'm just glad we are back. Thanks to everyone that worked hard to keep the Exodus running!
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:37 am
by GrizzlyAdam
slowmotion wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:29 am
I don't care if there still is "
Issues", I'm just glad we are back. Thanks to everyone that worked hard to keep the Exodus running!
Hear, hear!
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:52 am
by damufunman
slowmotion wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:29 am
I don't care if there still is "
Issues", I'm just glad we are back. Thanks to everyone that worked hard to keep the Exodus running!
+1
Above is not a big deal, just thought people would like to know.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:03 am
by Wilhelm
Agreed. Just posting things i notice for reference.
I notice deletes aren't working.
Re: SITE ISSUES 2/13/2018
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:50 pm
by simonrest
yeah, yeah, me too. That must be why I got so few notifications. it's not that I'm unpopular, it's a glitch.