There is a web crawler bot that is not respecting our robots.txt setting currently hammering our webhost.
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I told him I'm going to hack it and take it down LOL
They're working on it and know about it
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Actually it seems like it’s been going on awhile just that today is worse than normal, I just figured we were all logging in at once
Thanks for the update... I thought one of the mods "accidentally" slowed my shit down.
This site was finally getting to a speed where I could keep up.
@Pakrz posted:Thanks for the update... I thought one of the mods "accidentally" slowed my shit down.
I first thought it was Henry!
BK booted? What the hell's going on out here?!?!
@michiganjoe posted:Issue appears resolved.
Mine sped up a bit but is now slow again.
Not quite as bad as it was previously, but has slowed down a bit here as well.
Imagine what happens here when Gute passes on DeJean at 25.
The site is slowing down again, not as bad as earlier but it is noticeable .
JF I miss dialup and the AOL message board days
An update!
I blocked around 900 IPs related to the crawler. Hopefully things will speed up again.
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I asked him to block a range of IPs if possible.
It's definitely faster now
Let's see if the trade of IC for Kiel & Henry, is approved by the league office 
Henry, plausible. BK still searching for his Atari 2600 adapter...
@Boris posted:Let's see if the trade of IC for Kiel & Henry, is approved by the league office
Like a Who's Who
I liked it slow. First time I’ve been able to keep up with all the geniuses on X4.
It'd be nice if we could remove the defunct Packer Game Weather widget. It causes browsers to spin while the widget attempts to load (and eventually times out). This can also result in slower page loading times.
Edited to say - hey it's gone, thanks!
Don't know about anyone else but X4 is exceptionally slow today. At least on my PC. No issue on other sites I visit. 
Sorry bro. I'm sure it's the same problem as earlier.
Nothing that a blue pill and a Red Bull chaser can't fix.
Boris, looks like it is back and worse than it was last month. Took a long time to get this thread to load.
