forum availability

[Plotinus]

I've been seeing a lot of these errors lately on the forums, mostly when i try to access the unread page, though i got it just now while trying to make this post, too

Service Unavailable

Service is currently overloaded. Please try again later

I'm assuming you're seeing a lot of bot scraping traffic. Cloudflare has some options for automated bot detection that are available even to free users, but if you don't want to use cloudflare, there are also some open source options like anubis. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis. I haven't used anubis myself but i've heard decent things about it. Cloudflare is probably easier to set up though.

[Erkka]

Thanks for the tip!

We have forum and wiki software maintenance scheduled at the last week of the month. Before that we will monitor the situation and read and think about alternative approaches to improve the situation.

Thanks for your patience, folks!