New forum software / theme bugs thread

[Warp_Rattler]

As I've increasingly been thinking Deep Thoughts about the oversaturation of our lives with online media in contrast with the tangible benefits it brings us, the forum's loading speed over the past week has been a pleasant, nostalgic return to simpler days, browsing the web one site at a time in 28.8k dial-up.

[Lander]

I'll second the yearning for simpler times, though will pass on the parts that involve Tiscali and Muuuuum, the voicemail's clogging up the internet again!

[Udderdude]

Next thing you know, you've been knocked offline because your little brother picked up the phone .. >_>

[BIL]

OMFG, speedy once ageen! :O Machine comes alive? :3 Not to jinx lol lmao EDIT: Oh hell no, the realm of the supernatural is real >83

[system11]

My life is shitty right now, so I'm not around much - nobody pinged me about this until this afternoon.

Blame the Alibaba cloud - absolutely hammering the server with requests from multiple IPs, I can't tell if it's malicious or some kind of unintendedly stupid web crawling, so I've had to just firewall it off completely and contact their abuse team.

[BIL]

Cheers boss

[Starfighter]

My life is shitty right now, so I'm not around much

I hope things turn around for you, hang in there!

[Lander]

Ah, smooth and responsive! Much appreciation for the fix

And fingers crossed that life improves - hang in there!

[Sima Tuna]

Forum is faster than Sonic the Hedgedog now. Big thanks to system11.

[Ms. Tea]

Sorry you've been having a rough one; really hope things get better soon. Thanks so much for everything you do running the forum.

[Warp_Rattler]

Zippy and smooth on my end as well, sorry if the connection speed jokes came off as passive-aggressive (though I did have a moment of genuinely pleasant nostalgia for a time when browser features and web speeds meant you gave your full attention to one website at a time rather than flit distractedly through tens of open tabs). The amount of time and effort put into keeping this forum up and running (in an era where these kinds of forums and their communities are an endangered species) has got to be immense, but I'm sure it's not putting any words into anybody else's mouth to say we're grateful for it.

So: thanks for all the work you do, system11, and I hope that the IRL shittiness turns around soon!

[ryu]

Should be low priority but I thought I'd mention it: The text box when leaving feedback displays white text on white background

[system11]

Should be low priority but I thought I'd mention it: The text box when leaving feedback displays white text on white background

Thanks, this is fixed now.

[Steven]

It's back to taking six days for anything to load again.

edit: seems better now

edit 2: it's doing it again

[ryu]

It's not as awful as that time when the forum was basically unuseable but I'm noticing it too.

edit: nvm, it's unuseable sometimes

[system11]

I only just saw a message about this - it seems ok now?

[system11]

It's these people:

https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-47-74-0-0-1.html

I have blocked their latest set of subnets, and since they ignored my abuse report last time, I've publically requested on X a full list of their subnets so I can block the fucking lot of them.