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Umplix
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 08:55
I've been getting a lot of these errors recently. What's that about?
A bot, or bots, scraping the site. Making 10,000 connections as fast as it can.
--Medicine Storm[Edit] MedicineStorm beat me to a response. :P
This was something briefly disscused on the OGA Discord server and as MedicineStorm said, it's a Bot scraping the site with thousands of connections.
I did notice the site crawling along yesterday from around 10PM GMT, seems to be back to normal now.
Ok, thank you, makes sense.
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No mind to think;
No will to break;
No voice to cry suffering.
If you see it again, do not hesitate to @ me on discord (or IRC/matrix, but that doesn't give me an alert, so it may take me a few more minutes if you're notifying me via those channels.)
It may be a good idea to make a note of our discord/IRC/Matrix server now, while the site is running fine. It's hard to find that front page "chat with us" link with a 502 error in the way. :P
Discord: OpenGameArt
https://discord.gg/yDaQ4NcCux
IRC: #OpenGameArt on https://freegamedev.net/irc/#opengameart
--Medicine Storm