Slow Login

[captainwalker]

@Elrood at least I know now that I’m not the only one having issues… I’ve been doing scans and updates trying to fix it

[Elrood]

@captainwalker i guess its time to go back to “play by email” and post it all manually in the forum.

I am guessing TripleA needs an update to fix it…

[djensen]

@captainwalker Yeah, last night I was working the problem and causing a few disruptions while doing it. Everything should be stable now and far fewer bots taking up resources.

[djensen]

@captainwalker Okay, that’s weird. Let me look today.

[captainwalker]

@djensen thanks… I appreciate all you do here

[Elrood]

@captainwalker seconded!

[Elrood]

@djensen Seems to be working again. Just did a PBF Move with TripleA and all went smoothly.

[barnee]

nothing to serious but it’s starting to jack up again.

Edit
not triplea just when trying to access the site

[barnee]

Pretty bad in the last couple hours. Can’t really use it. All my other sites working normal

[djensen]

@barnee Working on it. You can also check https://x.com/axis_and_allies – if I’m actively working on something, you’ll see it there. Especially if I’m also unable to login.

[djensen]

I think we’re back in business.

Chinese bots hammering the site again.

[CentralCommando]

@djensen These fricking bots, man!

[djensen]

Lately, it’s been a non-bad actor crawling the site: Apple. I set up some rules to slow it down.

[Elrood]

@djensen „non-bad“ and „apple“ cannot be put together in a sentence in a syntactically sound way! 😉

[barnee]

@Elrood

hmm … maybe apple and china teamed up or well I guess they did a long time ago lol

Well, was able to finally get on the site. I use 8-10 sites a day and this is the only one that has this problem.

And it has it consistently

:)

[djensen]

Applebot strikes again. I’m rate limiting them more.

[Elrood]

@djensen do you know it’s purpose?

[djensen]

@Elrood Applebot? They’re probably training a foundation AI model. Officially it’s for Siri and Safari.

[Elrood]

@djensen oh… “great” :-/

[Elrood]

@djensen today site was unreachable starting 11am (New york Time) and at least for 2 hours … at least for me here in Europe.

If its really apple for some AI stuff… i imagine something like this:

“Siri, what happened to Japan in World War 2?”
AI bot searching the Interwebs
“According to numerous reports on A&A.org, the sea zone around Japan was under constant allied pressure but usually Japan just held out and let Germany win the war for them.”