Slow Loading

[Lunican]

Logged in users can see the forum and visitors not logged in just see a login screen. This reduces the load as it doesn't have to call the database.

[jax_hwy_engineer]

site has been far more responsive lately. this is fascinating to me, bot traffic is so odd... why would 35k bots need to access a city-specific forum?

[Charles Hunter]

site has been far more responsive lately. this is fascinating to me, bot traffic is so odd... why would 35k bots need to access a city-specific forum?

Maybe it's DOGE looking for fraud and waste?!?   

[jaxoNOLE]

site has been far more responsive lately. this is fascinating to me, bot traffic is so odd... why would 35k bots need to access a city-specific forum?

Maybe it's DOGE looking for fraud and waste?!?   

Well, if they stumbled onto the U2C thread, they found it!

[jax_hwy_engineer]

site has been far more responsive lately. this is fascinating to me, bot traffic is so odd... why would 35k bots need to access a city-specific forum?

Maybe it's DOGE looking for fraud and waste?!?   

Well, if they stumbled onto the U2C thread, they found it!

that's the one thing I wish DOGE would shut down. Maybe we could weaponize Elon's insecurities by saying the U2C is cooler and better than CyberTaxi to make him jealous and shut U2C down out of spite

[Ken_FSU]

Appreciate the work troubleshooting this.

I wonder how much of it is AI scrapers/LLMs?

Good list here of potential crawlers to try blocking:

https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

[Charles Hunter]

The board is getting The Slows again