Printing a topic is a status? Actual printing? Explain someone please!

Not lagging the forum but 126 guests viewing the Box Office Charts thread in the movie forum right now :tearsmile:

Printing a topic is a status? Actual printing? Explain someone please!

 

Clicking the 'print this topic' button at the top of the page, shows a printable format in case you ever want to either actually put this forum on paper or save a page to a PDF by using Ctrl + P. Along with other entirely useful and well-used functions like 'track this topic' in case you want incessant email updates on whenever someone new posts to it.

 

In this case probably just another action done by the bots to put load on the server.

Not lagging the forum but 126 guests viewing the Box Office Charts thread in the movie forum right now :tearsmile:

 

Like with the Indiana Jones movie thread (that we moved to the Entertainment Mod Lounge and STILL has guests viewing it somehow), a thread that just got targeted for some reason, perhaps SEO-related.

 

trouble is that the bots that are viewing it all have different IPs so it's harder to swat them unlike that huge botnet I banned earlier - if I notice any big patterns I'll take them out but a small load we can handle.

I think the cursed thread is Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - over 100,000 total views and 150 guests currently viewing

 

Probably more people than have seen the actual film :o

 

!!!

 

Why are bots attacking?? Why would anyonr jnlrash the bot on Botjack???

Clicking the 'print this topic' button at the top of the page, shows a printable format in case you ever want to either actually put this forum on paper or save a page to a PDF by using Ctrl + P. Along with other entirely useful and well-used functions like 'track this topic' in case you want incessant email updates on whenever someone new posts to it.

 

In this case probably just another action done by the bots to put load on the server.

Aha, thanks for explaining.

Has been a good few days now and the number of guests has remained manageable + the lag seems to be more or less gone so hooray it seems this worked.

It did seem to lag for me yesterday during the Buzzjack Friday Chart Show Thread.

Still lags for me tbh

Still lags for me tbh

 

^^

 

Also often if I post a reply it’ll take a few minutes or won’t post at all.

^^

 

Also often if I post a reply it’ll take a few minutes or won’t post at all.

 

That happens with me too

Yes that still happens but that's a separate issue that's been going on for a lot longer (which I hypothesise is something to do with mod actions and more specifically artist forum mod actions but that's just speculation). I mean we seem to have eliminated the more recent issue of the site lagging constantly between every page load as opposed to just occasional periods of the site dying for a minute or two then going back to normal.

it took 5 minutes for a post to show up but i think it's fixed now

Yes it's just back to how it was before, the occasional period of lag but nowhere near what it was last weekend.

not me getting paranoid that my personal chart thread got locked because it was causing lag 😵‍💫

The "today's active topics" link is still not usable for guests even though the other restrictions have been lifted. Was that intentional or can it be changed?

I think that link uses the search feature (as does 'view new posts', which may or may not be the exact same thing)

Finding some lag this afternoon but seems ok as I type this now with around 300 guests online. Not sure that’s the cause though.

300 is about normal!

Is anyone else finding that links are loading slightly slower than usual, it’s not really a lagging issue as such, but maybe something causing delays to load graphics perhaps? :thinking: It’s not terrible in that it’s disruptive, but there is a subtle extra second delay than usual to open all pages on the forum.