Bots attacking forum

[bigmack]

The forum has been running less than ideal lately .
I notice that there are at present 27,000 guests .
A week ago there was a highest ever over 70,000 guests .

I belong to several other phpBB forums and one was rended completely useless for several months with these thousands of Bots scrapping though the forum .

I hope it doesn’t get worse here .

It took the other forum owner several weeks to keep them out .

[Marama T]

Hi bigmack. So that's what's been going on. Sux. Stupid AI. Did you know an AI-assisted google search uses about ten times more power than one without? Our school has made the default a search without AI.

[Labbie]

I'm hoping westlab will keep them at bay.

[bigmack]

I really hope so too Labbie

Marama , sounds like your school is smart .

Just looked now . Chemtalk has over 35,000 guests . Can't tell me there are 35,000 Labbies reading this forum right now .

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[RosalieL]

and July 9 would have been school holidays for most states, if not all of them. I can't imagine 71,000 labbies getting on chemtalk in their holidays (as much as I love this forum and my job !!)

[Pm706Narrogin]

35,477 labbies?!

Have all education departments finally listened and fully staffed every science lab in Australia? We can only dream

[bigmack]

What ever Westlab is doing is working great . Other forums I am on are now regularly crashing and dead for hours due to these Bot attacks , often with less than 1000 guests .
Chemtalk regularly has 35,000 "guests" online and it is chugging along nicely .
Lets hope it stays this way .

[cactus155]

35,477 labbies?!

Have all education departments finally listened and fully staffed every science lab in Australia? We can only dream

Australia and our cousins from across the ditch according to the header of ChemTalk:

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