BIG REDIRECT PROBLEM

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BIG REDIRECT PROBLEM

Post by Hand-Holder » Mon Jul 21, 2025 9:19 pm

Hi folks, is it just me or using this board is 5 clicks fail on each 10 clics tries, being that half the time it sends us to a cookies page and no board after accepting the cookies ???
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Re: BIG REDIRECT PROBLEM

Post by Little Sally » Mon Jul 21, 2025 9:25 pm

Hand-Holder wrote:
Mon Jul 21, 2025 9:19 pm
Hi folks, is it just me or using this board is 5 clicks fail on each 10 clics tries, being that half the time it sends us to a cookies page and no board after accepting the cookies ???
Everyone is having access problems. See the "Troubleshooting" section.

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Re: BIG REDIRECT PROBLEM

Post by Elana » Tue Jul 22, 2025 1:33 pm

Also, don't accept those cookies.
That request isn't actually coming from this server and you only land there due to weird error redirecting.
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Re: BIG REDIRECT PROBLEM

Post by Hand-Holder » Tue Jul 22, 2025 10:42 pm

But I have no chance, when I click on any link here, like - New Posts or Your Posts, or when I want to submit a post, 3 out of 4 times it gives me that, but thanks for your advice, cheers
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Re: BIG REDIRECT PROBLEM

Post by Elana » Wed Jul 23, 2025 1:42 pm

Well, that might have been the case 24 hours ago, but looking at the current traffic rate it looks much more normal again.
With a couple of peaks that are almost 10% of what we had the last few days(but mostly way lower)

I actually expect the board to be able to handle the current load just fine.

If that isn't the case let me know.
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Re: BIG REDIRECT PROBLEM

Post by Hand-Holder » Tue Aug 12, 2025 3:04 pm

I spent several weeks with no more issues, but suddenly, since 2 days ago, the DAM COOKIE LINK is stricking back !!!

I recommend, after people writing any post, to make a copy of text before submitting, if you fall in that dam link and go back you may loose all your comment !!!
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Re: BIG REDIRECT PROBLEM

Post by Elana » Sun Aug 31, 2025 5:25 pm

I was so hopeful for a moment and then the bot count shot up again to around 10,000.

And then I saw a that my provider offered a new option, to add cloudflare protection with around 3 clicks.

So lets hope that it actually helps with the penetrant bots, and that it doesn't cause too many new problems.


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Re: BIG REDIRECT PROBLEM

Post by Hand-Holder » Sun Aug 31, 2025 7:29 pm

Elana wrote:
Sun Aug 31, 2025 5:25 pm
I was so hopeful for a moment and then the bot count shot up again to around 10,000.

And then I saw a that my provider offered a new option, to add cloudflare protection with around 3 clicks.

So lets hope that it actually helps with the penetrant bots, and that it doesn't cause too many new problems.


If anyone notices any board related weirdness let me know.
I now you care and thank you so much, this is not just a detail, is ruining the experience of just clicking fo anything at all, so is for the good of all the community
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Re: BIG REDIRECT PROBLEM

Post by Elana » Mon Sep 01, 2025 5:41 am

Unfortunately the improvements seem to be negligible as the free tier of course only gives the benefits I don't care about.

I really hoped it would be possible to find a solution that isn't throwing money at the problem
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