Site is intermittently giving me a 502, but when I can get there the main page says:
"We are experiencing massive site slowdowns and outages due to constant waves of up to 90,000 AI bots scraping the site for content. We are working hard to block them, but its hard to keep up on an industrial scale like this. They've been at it for over a month, but it has reached levels that we can't block. Please be patient--we'll figure something out!
Normally we'd expect a couple of hundred registered users online at a time using the forums, and a few thousand guests reading the news. This is what we're currently dealing with--90,000 AI scrapers, which constantly change IPs so we can't block them, and only a handful of actual people online, as nobody can access the site."
schrectacular•59m ago
"We are experiencing massive site slowdowns and outages due to constant waves of up to 90,000 AI bots scraping the site for content. We are working hard to block them, but its hard to keep up on an industrial scale like this. They've been at it for over a month, but it has reached levels that we can't block. Please be patient--we'll figure something out!
Normally we'd expect a couple of hundred registered users online at a time using the forums, and a few thousand guests reading the news. This is what we're currently dealing with--90,000 AI scrapers, which constantly change IPs so we can't block them, and only a handful of actual people online, as nobody can access the site."