Slow Login

@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.

I think we’re back in business.

Chinese bots hammering the site again.

@djensen These fricking bots, man!

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

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

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

@djensen do you know it’s purpose?

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

@djensen oh… “great” :-/

@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.”

@djensen

could it be that the new “no bot” browser validation blocks TripleA’s Access to the forum as well?

@Elrood
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/42469/play-by-forum-doesn-t-work/1
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/42463/error-message-unexpected-error-occurred-when-trying-to-play-game-via-forum-prevented-play-online-but-not-locally/1

@Panther its odd that surfer had this bug 4 days ago… So it is NOT related to the “are you human” thingy that Djensen has run now?

@Elrood It is strange that I - at the time surfer experienced that issue - was not able to reproduce it, while today I can.

As Dave has started to work on it some days ago, I would not exclude anything. But I think that @djensen is the only one who knows what might be going on here.

@Panther yep, that part sounded weird… curious

@Panther Either it is two unrelated issues (surfer 4 days ago und everbody else now), or … idk… it is really strange

It’s absolutely related to the “are you human” or “under attack mode.”

I’ll look into this later today.