We’re using Cloudflare (CF) now to help with the bots and caching the site. After installation, CF was quite aggressive against anything automated including TripleA clients. I set up a rule to allow TripleA traffic.
So it’s all fixed now and the site should feel faster.
If it doesn’t work on this topic, try a new one. Sometimes these things get cached somewhere.
@surfer And does downloading work?
Also, please try TripleA again. It might work.
@surfer I think I’m having problems following the issue. Can you describe the problem or problems that you’re experiencing?
@farmboy said in BM Surfer (L+15) vs Farmboy (X):
I’m getting an error code 403 when I try to post
When you post from the browser or from TripleA?
@captainwalker Okay, that’s weird. Let me look today.
@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.
Okay, this time for real. We’re running through Cloudflare now. Sticky sessions enabled so that your websocket sessions don’t switch servers and get all confused.
I was seeing the yellow box in the lower right corner warning that “it looks like you’re not connected” or something like that.
I restarted a few things and it went away for me. I’m hoping that you all are also not seeing that error but if you are. Please let me know.
Also; the site really does seem faster, right?
It kinda feels like the site is faster today right?
I enabled Cloudflare so I think it’s working. Sorry Chinese AI bots, you don’t get to have A&A in your language models.
However, I think there are some issues with over-aggressive caching. Working on it.
@Booper Chinese bots have been hitting the site.
@Panther Yeah, let’s try it in a few places and see how it goes. 3 max is good.
I’m considering
Or we could do both
I’m contemplating a new support tier.
A. What should it be called and what color should it be?
B. How much? Would $300 be to big of a jump? 120 follows the pattern but is it “enough?”
I think we need to max out at 2. We should create “roll-up” topics when there are multiple things to share.
For instance, this forum should have:
Thoughts?
What we really need is a really good feed of suggested topics and an email campaign to reveal them. Reddit absolutely mastered this. I used to be an occasional Reddit … then the emails came and they were relevant and fun and I enjoy getting that email. Actually, I mostly just go direct to Reddit now.
Looking back. I probably should’ve selected Discourse as the forum engine. The deployment strategy, at the time, was more complex than I wanted. I had a grudge against Ruby on Rails projects (kinda still do). But the UI was clean. I bet the API is cleaner and less breaking. Making another change might cause more churn though.
@Elrood Thanks. It might be another $25/month in operating costs.
I think I’ll have to up the subscriptions or add a new tier. If Board Game Nation can charge $5-$25/month; I can probably do the same? I’d prefer the yearly thing though.
It turns out that Chinese bots are hammering the site. I’ll sign up for Cloudflare this weekend and hopefully that helps reduce the load on the site by blocking the bots.
Sorry for the delay folks. Everybody should be up to date now. If not, please let me know.