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Been a while! He's a goner :)
"Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward....therefore!" - Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch

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It was John Cena!!! And he's gone :lol:
"Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward....therefore!" - Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch

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https://www.shatteredstar.com/forums/me ... ile&u=6776

Looks like they have cracked our code

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I'll rework some of our bot countermeasures next week to try and stem the flow.
"Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward....therefore!" - Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch

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I've had to ban a relatively narrow bot IP range this morning, as we were being scraped with approximately 2500 simultaneous connections which was putting strain on the server.

I don't believe this should affect anyone having looked into the IP range, but if anyone now has troubles accessing things give me a shout and I'll loosen the ban a little.
"Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward....therefore!" - Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch

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You might need to widen that a little. Had problems with the site loading, either only partially loading or going to a sql error too many connections. When I finally got it to load I saw there was over 500 guests (that number is steadily going down so I assume it was more earlier when I couldn't get on). It looks like we had even more on yesterday as they set a new record.
Most users ever online was 2468 on Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:57 pm

On a side note the first 3 pages of new members is basically all bots with links to their websites memberlist.php?mode=&sk=c&sd=d#memberlist
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Isileth wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2019 3:24 am You might need to widen that a little. Had problems with the site loading, either only partially loading or going to a sql error too many connections. When I finally got it to load I saw there was over 500 guests (that number is steadily going down so I assume it was more earlier when I couldn't get on). It looks like we had even more on yesterday as they set a new record.
Most users ever online was 2468 on Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:57 pm

On a side note the first 3 pages of new members is basically all bots with links to their websites memberlist.php?mode=&sk=c&sd=d#memberlist

Thanks Isi, appreciate this.

Given this and the DDOS issues we've had today I've now put in place a blanket ban on Chinese IPs for the timebeing. This will last until weekend when I'll have time to review the server logs and narrow this a little bit. I'll also clear out the accounts and review signup security at the same time.

I would hope there'll be less issues now. But if anyone sees crazy high guest counts again, or experiences server issues, please give me a poke on Discord and I'll take a look as a priority.

Sorry about this!
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Removed!
"Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward....therefore!" - Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch

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"We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution."
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I actually invited the Tarot Card Reader to be something different...

Removed ;)
"Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward....therefore!" - Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch

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memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6804

Another batch of bots that didnt post but have links on their profile as well - memberlist.php?mode=&sk=c&sd=d#memberlist
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All cleared out!
"Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward....therefore!" - Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch

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May be time to think about updating those countermeasures again methinks!

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"Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward....therefore!" - Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch

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