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07 Mar 2022, 9:37 am

Problems posting and loading the last few days, especially today.

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07 Mar 2022, 10:45 am

When you connect to WP you actually connect to a Cloudflare system, providing a global presence with servers dotted all over the place, so I think performance delays are more likely to be temporary routing issues somewhere between you and your nearest Cloudflare node.
https://www.cloudflare.com/what-is-cloudflare/

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26 Apr 2022, 9:32 pm

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Duuude! Get rid of the freaking Cloudflare already! It's doing more harm than good. It's locking out legitimate members. It's causing unnecessary outages with its self-inflicted DDoS attacks. And it's total garbage! Fire Alex for using it to begin with!

Hey-hey! Ho-ho! The Cloudflare has got to go!
Hey-hey! Ho-ho! The Cloudflare has got to go!
Hey-hey! Ho-ho! The Cloudflare has got to go!
Hey-hey! Ho-ho! The Cloudflare has got to go!
Hey-hey! Ho-ho! The Cloudflare has got to go!
Hey-hey! Ho-ho! The Cloudflare has got to go!
Hey-hey! Ho-ho! The Cloudflare has got to go!
Hey-hey! Ho-ho! The Cloudflare has got to go!
Hey-hey! Ho-ho! The Cloudflare has got to go!
Hey-hey! Ho-ho! The Cloudflare has got to go!

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26 Apr 2022, 9:52 pm

Aspie1 wrote:

Cornflake wrote:

The mods have no power to get rid of Cloudflare. That is up to Alex the founder of this site who makes very infrequent appearances these days.

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26 Apr 2022, 10:37 pm

Trump should fire himself, too!

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27 Apr 2022, 4:59 am

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Trump should fire himself, too!

That's why Covid got made in that lab.

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27 Apr 2022, 5:02 am

Ahem - over here, please: viewforum.php?f=20

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27 Apr 2022, 7:35 am

At least we haven't had so many of those advertisements for sexual enhancements or whatever----you Mods have done an excellent job in this sense.

In general, the BanHammer has really been a potent force.

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27 Apr 2022, 8:30 am

:lol: You don't know the half of it!
It's a constant background task, lopping off spammers and other ne'er-do-wells - this place seems to act like a magnet for them.

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27 Apr 2022, 8:35 am

I rarely have any Cloudflare issues. I cannot remember when the last time was that I had to select all the boats, busses, bicycles, fire hydrants, or nude cheerleaders from a 4x4 matrix of images just to edit a post.

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27 Apr 2022, 9:08 am

Fnord wrote:

The last time was a few days ago. It varies. For certain periods it is constant, then it is quiet for awhile.

I have never gotten the nude cheerleaders one though. If I did I would not complain :wink:

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27 Apr 2022, 10:17 am

If I use a lot of quotes, or if my post is especially long, I get the thing where I have to choose the boats, hydrants, etc. This happened to me once about a week or two ago.

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27 Apr 2022, 12:53 pm

Cornflake wrote:

It's a constant background task, lopping off spammers and other ne'er-do-wells - this place seems to act like a magnet for them.

It's a byproduct of autism awareness. It's now common knowledge that naiveness and gullibility are common traits of autism. While it the past, it was something only school bullies knew when they picked a victim. They obviously didn't know autism by name, but they did know who'd make a "good" victim. Today, almost everyone has heard of autism. So it's not surprising that this site gets targeted: those people know they'll have a higher success rate here.

In other words, we're in the "awareness danger zone": people know enough to exploit, but not enough to accept. It's similar to where LGBT's were in the 1990's.

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26 Aug 2022, 11:14 am

As if we don't already have enough problems with CloudFlare, can we at least drop them for supporting KiwiFarms?

I don't feel comfortable knowing that WP gives money to a company that refuses to take action against one of the most dangerous, toxic websites on the Internet.

Especially when WE are their main target.

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26 Aug 2022, 12:04 pm

SabbraCadabra wrote:

Kiwi Farms - Wikipedia

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Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums (/ˈkwɪki/), is an American Internet forum dedicated to the discussion of online figures and communities it deems "lolcows" (people who can be "milked for laughs"). The targets of threads are often subject to doxing and other forms of organized group trolling, harassment, and stalking, including real-life harassment by users.Harassment stemming from Kiwi Farms has been implicated in the suicides of three people targeted by users of the site

People Are Demanding That Cloudflare Drop Kiwi Farms

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26 Aug 2022, 12:07 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

I just sent them some dick pics. They're now convinced we're all beyond enhancement.

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