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    bob replied to the thread Forum Slow Again.
    The initial human verification app worked well for about a day, but then it was met with a DDOS attack. That is a "Dedicated Denial of...
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    bob replied to the thread Human Verification.
    The spammer just kept hammering, so I went one step further. The site is now protected by Cloudflare. That means no more clicking "I...
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    bob replied to the thread Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop.
    Yeah, some annoyed hacker in Singapore didn't like being blocked and he is/was doing a DDOS attack on the place. Working on blocking him.
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    bob replied to the thread Human Verification.
    Hackers are a dime a dozen in that country, and an attack on a little forum like this isn't going to get anyone's attention. Besides all...
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    bob replied to the thread Human Verification.
    OK, now that I'm home, Mr Annoyed Hacker in Singapore has been blocked and the DDOS attack is over. For now at least anyway, we'll see...
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    bob replied to the thread Human Verification.
    Meanwhile, it's slow again. Why? DDOS attack from Singapore, apparently locking them out annoyed them. 600K hits today. Hope that counts...
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    bob replied to the thread Human Verification.
    Yes, it was amazingly bad. Sorry. I wish they’d stop changing crap. It was hard to get rid of them too. At one point there was an ad...
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    bob replied to the thread Human Verification.
    The stupid things were making the mobile version unusable!
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    bob replied to the thread Human Verification.
    It wasn’t the browser, I turned them off (until Google Ads changes it again.)
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    bob replied to the thread Human Verification.
    Google randomly ads crap and sends an email “we’ve optimized your ads” then I have to go try to figure out how to delete them. Ugh.
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    bob replied to the thread Forum Slow Again.
    I've also put in a second system, which I won't go into details on. It provides an initial layer of bot protection. Today it stopped...
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    bob replied to the thread Forum Slow Again.
    Yes, and the place is flying. I'll click to get that.
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    bob replied to the thread Forum Slow Again.
    OK, I just made a change and added the human verification challenge. Yes, it's slightly annoying. Yes, the place is now running like...
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    bob replied to the thread Human Verification.
    OK, we're only like 10 minutes in, but holy crap. Users online went from 1,000 (999 spammers) to 4. Server load is 10% of what it was...
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    bob posted the thread Human Verification in Special Announcements.
    I've just added a human verification to the forum. It sometimes requires one single click. In theory, it will quell the robot uprising...
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