(March 30, 2026 at 7:08 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: The server load seesaws between a handful and several thousand. If those were legit people I'd expect them to be distributed a little more evenly throughout the day. That and I'd expect a few of these anonymous 'Guest' users to actually pop in and say "Hi!" sooner or later. It feels very much like a DDoS or a broken search bot.
They're almost certainly bots of some kind.
Part of the problem is that we allow read-only access to much of the forum, so there's lots of content to crawl, index, whatever.
I am working on the issue, but unless I can produce a smoking gun it's going to be an iterative process.
