Am I the only one who is finding that this forum has been extremely sluggish in loading pages lately???

Nope.

You're not the only one.

It's unbearably slow.

greggerypeccary wrote on Oct 15^th, 2025 at 9:09am:

Nope. You're not the only one. It's unbearably slow.

Freediver, anyone - can someone please fix the dial-up-like slow speed of this forum? It's insufferable!!!

Suddenly come good again.  8-)

Captain Nemo wrote on Oct 15^th, 2025 at 10:47am:

Suddenly come good again.  8-)

Any idea how?

No idea. Maybe Freediver and / or Vic worked some magic?

I am trying out some things. It might only be a temporary fix.

Quite responsive again.

freediver wrote on Oct 15^th, 2025 at 11:04am:

I am trying out some things. It might only be a temporary fix.

It's greatly improved on what the speed was earlier today.

freediver wrote on Oct 15^th, 2025 at 11:04am:

I am trying out some things. It might only be a temporary fix.

Seems to be good right now.

There are still 2652 guests but they don't seem to be destroying the bandwidth.

freediver wrote on Oct 15^th, 2025 at 11:04am:

I am trying out some things. It might only be a temporary fix.

Thanks freediver.

3123 "Guests" and 7 Search Engines here when I've just signed in but the speed is back to normal for now.

Wow. That is a another record for the number of "guests" active.

Every time OzPol has an attack of the ridiculously slows we lose members.

JC Denton SAID he was leaving because of the slows and has left.

What is the path back to growing membership and post count?

Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 15^th, 2025 at 5:33pm:

Every time OzPol has an attack of the ridiculously slows we lose members. JC Denton SAID he was leaving because of the slows and has left. What is the path back to growing membership and post count?

Silence Monk,
the DOS attacks are malicious and a sign that someone or
some organisation or country wants to shutdown Ozpolitic.
It's a cyber war.

Every time OzPol has an attack of the ridiculously slows we lose members.

JC Denton SAID he was leaving because of the slows and has left.

What is the path back to growing membership and post count?


Is it a DDS attack? Or bots spending too long on OzPol?

How can the slowdowns be prevented?

The slowdowns and the lousy, biased modding is causing members to leave here—like JC Denton, The Barnacle, Phemanderac and Bam to list a few just of the top of my head.

What is the path back to growing membership and post count? Or do we just let OzPol shrink?

Can we move to modern software optimised for mobile users? If not, more members will be lost.

Not just slow again, I got the “No HTTPS” message.

Bobby. wrote on Oct 15^th, 2025 at 5:43pm:

Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 15th, 2025 at 5:33pm: Every time OzPol has an attack of the ridiculously slows we lose members. JC Denton SAID he was leaving because of the slows and has left. What is the path back to growing membership and post count? Silence Monk, the DOS attacks are malicious and a sign that someone or some organisation or country wants to shutdown Ozpolitic. It's a cyber war.

It's very slow again -
taking 1 minute or more to open a page or it fails.

Who is doing it?

Almost 24 hours of good speed.

Oh well ...

♫ You've got to ... accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Hold onto the affirmative
Don't mess with Mr. in-between ♫

;D

Be nice to know exactly what is going on.


Every time OzPol has an attack of the ridiculously slows we lose members.

JC Denton SAID he was leaving because of the slows and has left. Phemanderac, JC Denton, The Barnacle, Bam—just some of the names I remember as former members.

What is the path back to growing membership and post count?

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1760337439/7#7

FD,

Quote:

Re: bots, DDOS? Reply #7 - Today at 12:17pm Hi everyone, quick update. It looks like the site is being slowed down by bot traffic. These are "bad" bots that don't obey the rules and are fairly good at impersonating real traffic, so there is no cheap and easy way stop them. From what I can gather they are most likely gathering data for training AI. I got a bit of a reprieve yesterday by rebooting the server, however the bots seem to have figured that one out as it does not work any more. I still have a few more things I can try out, but won't get on to them in a hurry.

Well -
it's super slow again.
I hope it gets fixed within a few days?

Not as bad today but slow. Got the “No HTTPS” message.

Had to try FOUR times to flip a page!

Radical change—and a path back to membership and post count growth desperately needed!

Well, sometimes the abandonware works then it takes MINUTES to show the next page!

Current slow down seems to be over.

What is the path back to rising membership and post count?

Is it not time to move to more modern software?

Interesting putting

www.ozpolitic.com

and then

www.polanimal.au


into cleantalk!


Old software runs slower. YABB is very old, very crap software for large boards.

Only 1364 guests right now and this site is working well.

Well done FD.

Very slow again. Stats:

Members: 2
Jovial Monk, aquascoot
Guests: 3598
Search Engines: 9
Crawler (2), Googlebot (1), MSN Search (3), Yandex (3)


When will this problem be fixed permanently?

What is the path back to rising membership and post count? 100 posts per day less today than 14 months ago show the scale of the decline.

Bit better now. Not good tho.

It's very slow right now -  up to 1 minute or more to open a page.


Guests: 4004
Search Engines: 14
Googlebot (2), MSN Search (3), Yandex (9)

Post rate will probably decline even more after this.

With any luck, Monk will leave this forum.

Jasin wrote on Nov 1^st, 2025 at 1:15pm:

With any luck, Monk will leave this forum.

Monk is clearly not a happy chappy -

this is what he wrote today on his forum:



https://www.ozpolitic.com/album/forum-attachments/Monk_writing_about_Ozpol_today.jpg

.

.

flip page

.  flip

“flip”

You telling FD the YABB abandonware is faulty?

Monk is an evil and insane blight here.
Who would come here, if they hate the place as much as he expresses?
Bouncers throw such people out. He has nothing to offer but typical vitriol that Trolls on the internet do. "I've come to this Forum to say how crap it is" is his standard input. No wonder his neighbours have installed cameras and to let him know that they have done so. He's a horrible evil person that can't be trusted, liked and accepted.
Nothing good comes from such people and it says a lot about the others here like Smith, Peccary and Mothra who belong with him from his Cave of evil PA forum.

Evil.

Jesus Christ - it's so damn slow today -
it took 4 minutes to make one post.

It must be a malicious cyber attack on Ozpolitic - a DoS -
denial of service attack.

In the past I have has slow days and again today. My posts are taking several minuted to go through and pages are loading slower than normal.

I have noticed that my service has been mostly normal when others are complaining, not sure why that would be the case. For me it isn't a huge deal.

The pages are very slow to load today.

Finally managed to log in.

Nearly 5000 "Guests" (4980) and 10 Search Engines here just before I got in.

This is definitely not normal in my opinion. Not for this length of time. I'm inclined to agree with Bobby.

Wow. It really is slow today.

Just as well that :

[media width=500]https://youtu.be/RMxRDTfzgpU[/media]

;D

Members: 6

Guests: 4479

Time to move to modern software.

If the problem is too many guests, the van guests from even reading posts on this forum. Make it members only! It is ridiculously slow lately - again!!!

I think it might be this:


Quote:

Yandex (3)

Not a well behaved bot.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 2^nd, 2025 at 7:25pm:

If the problem is too many guests, the van guests from even reading posts on this forum. Make it members only! It is ridiculously slow lately - again!!!

I finally managed to make a couple of posts at 10.00pm tonight.    WTF?

3714 "Guests" and 14 Search Engines (7 Yandex) when I've just managed to sign in again now.

Funny thing is - even with all of this 'activity' the forum speed seems fairly normal at the moment but it will probably slow down again soon.

I've noticed that over the past few days - always lots of "Guests" and Search Engines but you still manage to get short periods (like now) where the speed is almost normal.

flip page.

flip page *sigh*

flip page x3

Carl D wrote on Nov 2^nd, 2025 at 9:06pm:

3714 "Guests" and 14 Search Engines (7 Yandex) when I've just managed to sign in again now. Funny thing is - even with all of this 'activity' the forum speed seems fairly normal at the moment but it will probably slow down again soon. I've noticed that over the past few days - always lots of "Guests" and Search Engines but you still manage to get short periods (like now) where the speed is almost normal.

There needs to be a change in how the site works.

Maybe guests get to visit one or 2 pages unless they sign up -
otherwise they get booted off?

"Guests" have just dropped to 973. 11 Search Engines. lol.. funny how almost 3000 "Guests" disappeared in a matter of minutes.

Now 99 "Guests".

Maybe it's Bedtime for Bots in some part of the world?  ::)

Edit: 53 now... they must know we're on to them.

Edit: 48... no wonder the forum is so fast right now.

Speed is a little bit better but too slow, slow enough some members might leave.

I see the “No HTTPS” notice.



Quote:

Guests: 3602 Search Engines: 9 Googlebot (3), MSN Search (3), Yandex (3)

Carl D wrote on Nov 2^nd, 2025 at 9:15pm:

Now 99 "Guests". Maybe it's Bedtime for Bots in some part of the world?  ::) Edit: 53 now... they must know we're on to them. Edit: 48... no wonder the forum is so fast right now.

Yes - for a few short hours the guests went down to below 43
and the site worked well -
then this morning it's back up again:

Guests: 3176
Search Engines: 13
Googlebot (3), MSN Search (3), Yandex (7)

And now it's very slow again.

Members: 10
Guests: 0
Search Engines: 0

Frank wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2025 at 4:10pm:

Members: 10 Guests: 0 Search Engines: 0

Only Registered Members can access the forum at the moment, I always sign out after I leave so I had to sign in just now.

Members who never sign out probably wouldn't have noticed any change.

Thanks for doing that, freediver. It's probably a bit of a nuisance not allowing "Guests" to view the forum for the time being but it looked like there wasn't any other option.

Edit: Ah, I see Bobby beat me to it in the other thread.  :)

---

THIS is not good longer term:


Quote:

Search Engines: 0

We already have missing (perceptions_now, polite_Gandalf etc) and totally incompetent MRB Mods like Jasin, Booby and Gordon and some MRB Mods missing in action.

So OzPolitic is already not that visible and now no bots? C r a s h !

Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2025 at 4:42pm:

We already have missing (perceptions_now, polite_Gandalf etc) and totally incompetent MRB Mods like Jasin, Booby and Gordon and some MRB Mods missing in action. So OzPolitic is already not that visible and now no bots? C r a s h !

Shut up you ASPD prick.   ::)

You have NEVER shown I have ASPD.

I HAVE shown that YOU have ASPD, you boring high school dropout.

High time this place was put on a new path, one of growth in membership and posting rate.

Here we go:


FLIP!

Flip flip flippety flip!

W T S F ?

FLIP!

Yes, YABB is for the rubbish bin!

????

The forum is open for Guests again.

And, the "Guest" numbers are starting to skyrocket again, I see.

Gone from about 200 to over a thousand in a matter of minutes.

Edit: Just hit 2000... wow.

Carl D wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2025 at 8:17pm:

The forum is open for Guests again. And, the "Guest" numbers are starting to skyrocket again, I see. Gone from about 200 to over a thousand in a matter of minutes.

1782  now -  going up by 200 every 10 seconds.

No -


Let it run for a week like this and then allow guests  again.

See what happens - hopefully the 4,000 or more guest bots will have gone away.

Who the hell is doing it?    Mossad?    Russia?

Ahh - it's gone back to no guests allowed.      :)

Shite again



     Members: 7

Guests: 5271
Search Engines: 9
Googlebot (3), MSN Search

It doesn't take long for over 5585  bots to turn up.  WTF?

Members: 2

Guests: 5585

Search Engines: 11
Aport (1), Googlebot (2), MSN Search (4), Yandex (4)

It just took me 45 seconds to get the 5 second IP warning. Brilliant.

Well, at this rate ...

I'm willing to offer my Proboards site as a new home if anybody is interested.

https://newstalkback2.proboards.com/

I think it is more user friendly in some regards, such as automatic URL recognition, image size reduction and navigation generally.

I've never had Member Run Boards but I'm willing to set them up for the same people who run them here.

Something to consider.

As I look, I notice there are 4151 guests on board, so why are the topic views not going from 100s to 1000s ?

Just started a poll:

Who is sabotaging Ozpolitic?

Mmmmm!

Speed now fast with lots of guests!

Weird!

Redmond Neck wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 9:07am:

Mmmmm! Speed now fast with lots of guests! Weird!

That's cause FD switched off guests just now.

Guests: 38
Search Engines: 9
Googlebot (3), MSN Search (2), Yandex (4)

flip

flip

flip

The offer is there.

BTW, there is no page flip issue on Proboards either.

I'm willing to offer my Proboards site as a new home if anybody is interested.

https://newstalkback2.proboards.com/

I think it is more user friendly in some regards, such as automatic URL recognition, image size reduction and navigation generally.

I've never had Member Run Boards but I'm willing to set them up for the same people who run them here.

Something to consider.

Bobby it may not be a DDOS attack. It could just be badly designed bots that collect data for training AI natural language models.

freediver wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 9:38am:

Bobby it may not be a DDOS attack. It could just be badly designed bots that collect data for training AI natural language models.

But why would it need over 4,000 guests to do it? -

sounds malicious to me.

Captain Nemo wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 12:17am:

Well, at this rate ... I'm willing to offer my Proboards site as a new home if anybody is interested. https://newstalkback2.proboards.com/ I think it is more user friendly in some regards, such as automatic URL recognition, image size reduction and navigation generally. I've never had Member Run Boards but I'm willing to set them up for the same people who run them here. Something to consider.

So how would it work?

Set up the skeleton, members create accounts and copy across posts and threads that are active/relevant?

MRB Mods are GMods in their board with ban powers deactivated.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/bots/what-is-a-bot/

Bots can be:

Chatbots: Bots that simulate human conversation by responding to certain phrases with programmed responses
Web crawlers (Googlebots): Bots that scan content on webpages all over the Internet
Social bots: Bots that operate on social media platforms
Malicious bots: Bots that scrape content, spread spam content, or carry out credential stuffing attacks


How can companies stop malicious bot activity?
Bot management solutions are able to sort out harmful bot activity from user activity and helpful bot activity via machine learning. Cloudflare Bot Management stops malicious behavior without impacting the user experience or blocking good bots. Bot management solutions should be able to identify and block malicious bots based on behavioral analysis that detects anomalies, and still allow helpful bots to access web properties.

To learn more about setting up bot protection, see our Developer documentation.

Bobby. wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 9:53am:

freediver wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 9:38am: Bobby it may not be a DDOS attack. It could just be badly designed bots that collect data for training AI natural language models. But why would it need over 4,000 guests to do it? - sounds malicious to me.

It is selfish, not malicious. They use a range of IP addresses to make it hard for websites to block them.

Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 9:59am:

Captain Nemo wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 12:17am: Well, at this rate ... I'm willing to offer my Proboards site as a new home if anybody is interested. https://newstalkback2.proboards.com/ I think it is more user friendly in some regards, such as automatic URL recognition, image size reduction and navigation generally. I've never had Member Run Boards but I'm willing to set them up for the same people who run them here. Something to consider. So how would it work? Set up the skeleton, members create accounts and copy across posts and threads that are active/relevant? MRB Mods are GMods in their board with ban powers deactivated.

Yep, I've set up the Member Board area over there just now in case anyone wants to take up the offer.

I would assign members Moderator roles on the relevant boards.

Similar powers to Member Board Moderators here.

Now, while it is true that Proboards used to be easy to sabotage by complaining to Proboards, they don't tend to nuke boards like they used to.

I would Globally moderate with fairly loose "rules".

I don't like bullies so if someone became a persistent bully, I would take action to curtail that, but otherwise, I'm pretty easygoing.  :)

I would not propose bringing all the history from here over there, but members would be free to copy over posts if they like.

Anyhow, if people want to give it a go, fine. If not, that's OK too.  8-)

Bobby. wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 8:30am:

Just started a poll: Who is sabotaging Ozpolitic?

Bad actors.

Persons and groups who abhor ALL independent views being openly, publicly expressed.

Stalinists, CCP, Marxists, ISLAMISTS, National Socialists, WOKE, LEFTIST supporters....wanna-be tyrants.

'They' [supporters of such groups] will always    seek the means to suppress    all open and publicly expressed views....
which do not align with, or would be an open challenge their own objectives and agenda.

FASCISTS.

Persons and groups.....who would justify using oppression and violence
against persons [and groups] who would support open, public expression, and open public debate.

Because all supporters of fascism, know very well,
that open, public expression, and open public debate would always threaten the achievement of their own 'social' agenda.


.


John 3:19
And this is the condemnation,
that light is come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil.
20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light,
neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light,
that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.


John 18:37
.....Jesus answered.......
To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world,
that I should bear witness unto the truth.
Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.


Psalms 25:8
Good and upright is the LORD:
therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
9  The meek will he guide in judgment:
and the meek will he teach his way.
10  All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth
unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
.......
12  What man is he that feareth the LORD?
him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
13  His soul shall dwell at ease;
and his seed shall inherit the earth.
14  The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him;
and he will shew them his covenant.


Psalms 97:10
Ye that love the LORD, hate evil:
he preserveth the souls of his saints;
he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
11  Light is sown for the righteous,
and gladness for the upright in heart.
12  Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous;
and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.


Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalteth a nation:
but sin is a reproach to any people.


2 Timothy 3:1
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous,
boasters,
proud,
blasphemers,
disobedient to parents,
unthankful,
unholy,
3  Without natural affection,
trucebreakers,
false accusers,
incontinent,
fierce,
despisers of those that are good,
4  Traitors,
heady,
highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:
from such turn away.
6  For of this sort are they which creep into houses,
and lead captive silly women laden with sins,
led away with divers lusts,
7  Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.


.


bobby,

You did ask.   !      :)

Bobby. wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 8:30am:

Just started a poll: Who is sabotaging Ozpolitic?

Donald Trump?  :-/

Well, I joined and made a post in Critters and Gardens.


Cats and Critters means, basically, Critters and Critters since cats are critters.

Critters and Gardens avoids that silliness and widens the scope of the board. Amazes me that that simple change has not been made, I asked for it years and years ago!

Polls are pointless.

freediver wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 9:59am:

Bobby. wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 9:53am: freediver wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 9:38am: Bobby it may not be a DDOS attack. It could just be badly designed bots that collect data for training AI natural language models. But why would it need over 4,000 guests to do it? - sounds malicious to me. It is selfish, not malicious. They use a range of IP addresses to make it hard for websites to block them.

I think I've mentioned this before but the AskWoody site had the same problem a couple of months back.

https://www.askwoody.com/newsletter/bots-attack/

They had to use Cloudflare (which costs $$ of course) to put a stop to it... and they're still using it because it seems that as soon as they stop using it the bots return.

flip page.

flip page again.

flip page x 3.

Proboards have a cleaner look than tired old YABB, have style, link, alignment etc controls arranged a bit differently but easy enough to pick up.

Under the hood I imagine ProBoards use SQL not serial file like YABB so easier, faster searching etc.

Sooky baby whiners.
HTFU

Jasin wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 10:32am:

Sooky baby whiners. HTFU

Watch out, Jasin - PA might be next.  ;D

I have noticed PA doesn't seem to be affected by any of this (I like to have a bit of a read from time to time) even though I believe it's on the same server as OzPolitic.

The sewer is phpBB3

Whatever FD has done, it seems to be working. The need to login to view the forums is great idea. Looking now there are 6 users, 0 bots and 0 guests.  :)

Belgarion wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 12:03pm:

Whatever FD has done, it seems to be working. The need to login to view the forums is great idea. Looking now there are 6 users, 0 bots and 0 guests.  :)

It works but it isn't really ideal for non members and search engines not being able to view the forums but it doesn't look like much else can be done at the moment because as soon as FD switches back all the bots immediately return.

I don't think these bots really go anywhere during the times like now when they can't access the forum - they probably just keep trying non stop.

Carl D wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 10:35am:

Jasin wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 10:32am: Sooky baby whiners. HTFU Watch out, Jasin - PA might be next.  ;D I have noticed PA doesn't seem to be affected by any of this (I like to have a bit of a read from time to time) even though I believe it's on the same server as OzPolitic.

It can slow down, a bit - when Ozpol is slow.

But, but - my fans are all gone from here now.
Even Sky and ABC look in on Ozpol.

Jasin wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 1:26pm:

Carl D wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 10:35am: Jasin wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 10:32am: Sooky baby whiners. HTFU Watch out, Jasin - PA might be next.  ;D I have noticed PA doesn't seem to be affected by any of this (I like to have a bit of a read from time to time) even though I believe it's on the same server as OzPolitic. It can slow down, a bit - when Ozpol is slow. But, but - my fans are all gone from here now. Even Sky and ABC look in on Ozpol.

Evidence?

**evil laugh 😈

Carl D wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 10:22am:

freediver wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 9:59am: Bobby. wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 9:53am: freediver wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 9:38am: Bobby it may not be a DDOS attack. It could just be badly designed bots that collect data for training AI natural language models. But why would it need over 4,000 guests to do it? - sounds malicious to me. It is selfish, not malicious. They use a range of IP addresses to make it hard for websites to block them. I think I've mentioned this before but the AskWoody site had the same problem a couple of months back. https://www.askwoody.com/newsletter/bots-attack/ They had to use Cloudflare (which costs $$ of course) to put a stop to it... and they're still using it because it seems that as soon as they stop using it the bots return.

cloudflare is probably the one sending all the bots :D :D

Well -

guests are not turned off now - we have only

Guests: 65
Search Engines: 9
Googlebot (3), MSN Search (2), Yandex (4)

Somehow we're not being attacked by bots.
What happened? - did they give up for now?

flip

flip

flip

John Smith wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 7:31pm:

Carl D wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 10:22am: freediver wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 9:59am: Bobby. wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 9:53am: freediver wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 9:38am: Bobby it may not be a DDOS attack. It could just be badly designed bots that collect data for training AI natural language models. But why would it need over 4,000 guests to do it? - sounds malicious to me. It is selfish, not malicious. They use a range of IP addresses to make it hard for websites to block them. I think I've mentioned this before but the AskWoody site had the same problem a couple of months back. https://www.askwoody.com/newsletter/bots-attack/ They had to use Cloudflare (which costs $$ of course) to put a stop to it... and they're still using it because it seems that as soon as they stop using it the bots return. cloudflare is probably the one sending all the bots :D :D

I doubt that.     ::)

John Smith wrote on Nov 4^th, 2025 at 7:31pm:

Carl D wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 10:22am: freediver wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 9:59am: Bobby. wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 9:53am: freediver wrote on Nov 4th, 2025 at 9:38am: Bobby it may not be a DDOS attack. It could just be badly designed bots that collect data for training AI natural language models. But why would it need over 4,000 guests to do it? - sounds malicious to me. It is selfish, not malicious. They use a range of IP addresses to make it hard for websites to block them. I think I've mentioned this before but the AskWoody site had the same problem a couple of months back. https://www.askwoody.com/newsletter/bots-attack/ They had to use Cloudflare (which costs $$ of course) to put a stop to it... and they're still using it because it seems that as soon as they stop using it the bots return. cloudflare is probably the one sending all the bots :D :D

Nice to see you back here, John?

For how long this time?



Good business model, send out thousands of bots, then charge website owners to get rid of the bots?  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

No guests but slow like molasses in January.

Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 5^th, 2025 at 6:28am:

No guests but slow like molasses in January.

Now they're back again - 5028 "Guests" and 12 Search Engines. Sheesh.

Carl D wrote on Nov 5^th, 2025 at 6:35am:

Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 5th, 2025 at 6:28am: No guests but slow like molasses in January. Now they're back again - 5028 "Guests" and 12 Search Engines. Sheesh.

OK now -  FD switched guests off again:


Guests: 0
Search Engines: 0

I’ve checked members registration list, there hasn’t been any new regs in this past week, maybe not so curious guests, or maybe it really is all bots!
Or maybe not enough time has gone by for really curious guests to join…yet.

We have a landline phone, as we are basically country, we need that wretched landline expense to be online for the internet.
For years we’ve given none our landline number yet at least twice daily it rings.
We would answer it and it clickety clacks with no answer, or it hangs up immediately we pick up phone.
I told hubby to not bother as it’s just auto computer bot thingy doing it for some unknown reason.
But yeah…there’s that nuisance ….

So here we all are, in our own private forum with no other eyes peering in on us, for now.

I don’t think it matters one bit whether FreeDiver fixes the speed issue or not.

When filth like this is allowed we are not going to attract good new members:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1419074961/1440#14400

Yes. You should be removed from this forum with all your negative attacks against like a dog with rabies.

Hmmm 1 guest.

This site is so good with guests switched off.   :)

But FD needs to let bots like Google, Microsoft, Apple etc etc back in eventually. I mean, with idiots in charge of scientific boards there are no links to boost SEO ranking.

Environment
Economics
Health
Food

should be full of links to high quality sites.

{Sigh}

Environment is modded by an idiot, the other three boards don’t have active Mods at all.

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flip

flip AGAIN!

WTF?

flip!

Come on FD!

We need something better than abandonware YABB!

PLEASE migrate to something modern!

All these calls for hangings just shows Booby has severe feelings of inadequacy  which could be related to his homosexuality.

Rabid responses

This has to be one of the slowest sites on the net, it is common to get no response at all.
The ‘’solution’’ is to just go away and come back later.

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Nov 8^th, 2025 at 2:51pm:

This has to be one of the slowest sites on the net, it is common to get no response at all. The ‘’solution’’ is to just go away and come back later.

No - it's fine now with "guests" switched off.

They were 99% robots stuffing up the site.

Really is time to move to modern software, even good old phpBB3.

Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 5^th, 2025 at 4:21pm:

All these calls for hangings just shows Booby has severe feelings of inadequacy  which could be related to his homosexuality.

Shut up.   ::)

Bobby. wrote on Nov 8^th, 2025 at 2:57pm:

Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 5th, 2025 at 4:21pm: All these calls for hangings just shows Booby has severe feelings of inadequacy  which could be related to his homosexuality. Shut up.   ::)

It is also quite sick. Why not seek help?

Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 8^th, 2025 at 2:57pm:

Bobby. wrote on Nov 8th, 2025 at 2:57pm: Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 5th, 2025 at 4:21pm: All these calls for hangings just shows Booby has severe feelings of inadequacy  which could be related to his homosexuality. Shut up.   ::) It is also quite sick. Why not seek help?

Monk,
when you hang a man you better look at him:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZTe-_yqmhQ

Seek help!

I don't think Bobby is interested in seeking help from drugs & booze like you do.

Jasin wrote on Nov 8^th, 2025 at 6:09pm:

I don't think Bobby is interested in seeking help from drugs & booze like you do.

Monk needs a lot of help.

I have tried to help him but I have failed.

Booby is the one with a hanging fetish

Booby is the doxxer

Booby should seek help.

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Bobby. wrote on Nov 8^th, 2025 at 6:26pm:

Jasin wrote on Nov 8th, 2025 at 6:09pm: I don't think Bobby is interested in seeking help from drugs & booze like you do. Monk needs a lot of help. I have tried to help him but I have failed.

I have failed because you people have not given Monk the proper motivation he needs -
therefore, when Monk stuffs up I will not punish him -
I will punish all of you,
and the way I see it, you all owe me for Monk's behaviour.

You have never tried to help me.

You have doxxed me: to DuByne, cross posting my mother’s death notice, sharing a photo of and my mother.

You have stolen at least one photo, uploaded to an image hosting website, and three of my videos

You tried to blackmail me to use the videos.

You are a morally repugnant turd.

Bobby and Monk are in love 💕 😆

Seems to be slow again despite only members being allowed?

Not just my computer—I have seen the “No HTTPS” two or three times. Are there bots not registered?

Jovial Monk wrote on Nov 9^th, 2025 at 1:07pm:

Seems to be slow again despite only members being allowed? Not just my computer—I have seen the “No HTTPS” two or three times. Are there bots not registered?

Just you, I think.

Very fast for me today.

OK, could be me, would not have mentioned it except for the “No HTTPS” message.

Forum is open for everyone again, I see.

1705 "Guests" and 7 Search Engines but the speed is OK (for me, anyway) so far.

Carl D wrote on Nov 10^th, 2025 at 8:10pm:

Forum is open for everyone again, I see. 1705 "Guests" and 7 Search Engines but the speed is OK (for me, anyway) so far.

It's bad now - looks like Yandex - the Russian search engine - is doing it:


Guests: 2588
Search Engines: 78
Aport (1), Crawler (7), Googlebot (3), MSN Search (3), Yandex (64)

Ozpol stuffed again:

Guests: 2643
Search Engines: 70
Aport (1), Crawler (9), Googlebot (3), MSN Search (6), Yandex (51)



It takes up to 2 minutes to open a page.  WTF?

Wow - 10 posts to flip the page -

a new Ozpol record.

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1762815755/30#39

Yandex -
Is it Putin - the Russians?


Members: 5

Guests: 2369
Search Engines: 134
Crawler (7), Googlebot (3), MSN Search (2), Yandex (122)