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[bleeter]

Hi peeps.

Just came in here to express gratitude for being un-banned ☺️. Given that I've merely created an account and nearly immediately afterwards got an insta-ban, I am fairly convinced it's due to me using Tor. I... know. A lot of malicious folks use Tor for spamming and whatnot. And the whatnot part I'd rather not spell out as it's really rough if I understood correctly. But... I just want to have that false sense of security-slash-anonymity while downloading my silly RARs of old software although I know everything everywhere is fingerprinted.

So yeah, here goes a thank you to the admin team and a plea to maybe consider that not all of us Tor users are spamming (and whatnot) scum of the Earth .

Cheers!

 

[aGGyunit]

Hi peeps.

Just came in here to express gratitude for being un-banned ☺️. Given that I've merely created an account and nearly immediately afterwards got an insta-ban, I am fairly convinced it's due to me using Tor. I... know. A lot of malicious folks use Tor for spamming and whatnot. And the whatnot part I'd rather not spell out as it's really rough if I understood correctly. But... I just want to have that false sense of security-slash-anonymity while downloading my silly RARs of old software although I know everything everywhere is fingerprinted.

So yeah, here goes a thank you to the admin team and a plea to maybe consider that not all of us Tor users are spamming (and whatnot) scum of the Earth .

Cheers!

Weird, I checked and your account was never banned.
Maybe one of the IP ranges you were using was banned for an extended period of time, I know I cleaned up the banned IP list a while ago.
Some of the TOR IP ranges you used have a lot of members connected with it.
If some douchebag new member decides to abuse that exit node and persistently gets banned it's possible that node was banned from accessing the forum for a few months.
Seeing most of them were IPv6, those bans are rather strict and cover a huge sub range.

tip: TOR/VPN's are actively rejected during signup (done by an anti spam addon, not staff), but once you have an active account it's no longer rejected.

 

[aGGyunit]

The forum (maybe the main site too) feels very slow / sluggish now.
Unsure what is going on, but everything that involves background processing (like searching and making changes to things) seems extremely slow.

Dunno what is causing it.
Registration has been closed for now. I'll see if I can find anything on the backend that is visible to me.

 

[bleeter]

Weird, I checked and your account was never banned.

On my side, the banned UX, i.e. clicking any link resulting in a "sorry you're banned"-ish message always started happening after logging in, so I thought it was the account which ended up in the bad apples bin. To make matters worse, neither requesting a new Tor circuit nor even taking a break for a few days (or weeks) made no difference... until, all of a sudden, woah, I can access the forum.

Beats me. I'll chalk it up to me just being at the wrong place having the wrong IP in the wrong moment, as you said.

 

[explorer]

I am having a problem with the "Your Content". Mine has stopped updating as of yesterday. No content since then is getting added to it

 

[Aokigahara]

I have exactly the same problem!

 

[jjfreak]

Me too!

 

[aGGyunit]

@admin @Scnlog
Besides the mentioned issue with "Your content" not updating,
new posts are also no longer indexed by the search engine (on the forum).
This means all topics since some time during Wednesday do NOT show up in the search!!

Seems to be nothing I can do ... the "Rebuild Caches" option is not available for me on the admin panel.
I can turn the search off and on ... but not reset it.
Please fix asap.

 

[Jen_X]

I have same issue

I also notice when posting in "what is being discussed section" there are now 2 suggestions instead of the 1like normal

 

[aGGyunit]

I also notice when posting in "what is being discussed section" there are now 2 suggestions instead of the 1like normal

I changed that to 2 yesterday to try something, reverted back to 1 now.

@admin @Scnlog I don't have access to the page to "rebuild the search index" so I cannot fix the search issue!

 

[aGGyunit]

I have added a (dismiss-able) notice to the forum to make everyone aware of the issue.
- NO new topics are indexed = no new topics found via the search (all topics before Wednesday are still there)
- Dupe(s) on newer content is highly likely, but will not be punished.
- "Your content" and some other search features are also not finding newer content.
- I have contacted the owner, fingers crossed he can fix it for us.

 

[aGGyunit]

The owner ( @admin @Scnlog ) fixed the issue with the search.
Everything should be working again.

 

[aGGyunit]

CloudFlare error 522... Owner needs to fix it. I can't do anything.

 

[Leecher200]

Thank you @dmin

 

[hosaf07]

Since I am a recently registered user, I've noticed that registering for new users had been closed. Is it something ordinary?

 

[aGGyunit]

Since I am a recently registered user, I've noticed that registering for new users had been closed. Is it something ordinary?

It happens every now and then.

Recent? You've been here for over a year

 

[log10]

Since I am a recently registered user, I've noticed that registering for new users had been closed. Is it something ordinary?

are you just "asking for a friend"? let's hope you're not planning on getting banned soon

 

[aGGyunit]

In an attempt to reduce server load and hereby reduce the frequency of the "database errors" some changes were made to the permissions of "guests" about a week ago.
After what looked like a successful change the errors returned and all changes have been reverted.
It may take a few hours to a day to clear all the errors before the bots will be back to happy indexing/scraping.

The errors will continue as usual.

 

[UnderTheFigTree]

Hi all. I am new here but just wanted to say thank you so much. Found this late but very glad I did. I have had a few of my requests filled already and managed to fill a few myself. I presumed the scene was slowly fading away but glad to see so many people here still care so much. So much nostalgia going back to the days of 56k dialup and 4 hours to download a 60mb album from an FTP or XDCC bot.

Thanks again and I look forward to being a part of the community

 

[aGGyunit]

Registration TEMP disabled.
re-enabled
Registration TEMP disabled
Registration open again, if a large number of banned users spam signup again it will likely be closed during the Christmas period ...and maybe even longer.