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Hi Stese

In reference to your request to be informed if anybody received or saw a popup asking us to verify if we were human, for the last 2 - 3 days I had that popup on both of the devices I use to access the forum and luckily have had no further popup's since yesterday.


Thanks for the update ...

Hi All,

Just an update on these issues... I've spent the week poking and tweaking settings to improve things, and from what I can see, it's much much better.

Disabling the Cloudflare popup did initially create a small surge in bot traffic, but I've now added rules to prevent these.

Basically ...

Yep, I've re-enabled some of the better known and reputable crawlers to ensure we still appear in search engines. These ones are very unlikely to be causing the issues we've had.

At time of checking, we've got 115 guests on the forum. While higher than when I've previously checked, it's still far ...

Sorry Stese, but I cannot post pictures. Repeatedly asked if I am a robot? I feel like it having to repeatedly log in on anything I try to do.

Glencairn


Hi Glencairn,

Apologies for you having issues with posting images... as others have shown, it does appear to be working normally, and has ...

Hi All,

Thank you to all who have reported issues with accessing the forum at various times.

As you'll have seen in the board announcement, we are making some changes to the forum, which we hope will prevent these issues occuring.

I believe that the issue stems from the number of 'web-crawler ...

The use of 3D Printing seems to be growing within the hobby, which some Manufacturers using 3D Prints to aid in prototyping models, others producing printed models directly for sale to consumers. The development of consumer grade printers has also opened up a whole new aspect of the hobby where ...

Hi all,

needless to say, I've not had any major breakthroughs with the logs...

I've temporarily blocked some of the bots/crawlers that index the site, to see if the issue is being caused by one of them. Please keep me updated if you have issues, and note the time so I can cross check.

Many ...

Can I ask please, as it has previously been discovered and confirmed that the bots often cause problems with the forum and possibly other forums aswell, is there any possible way to ban access to the bots or do they have to have permanent access ?

I just thought I would ask as to me ( even though ...

glencairn wrote: ↑Mon Jul 28, 2025 3:30 pm It has taken exactly 0ne hour just to post this.

Euston there is a problem.

Glencairn

Thanks for letting me know.

I'm sorry this issue is dragging on, but one way or another, i'll find a solution.

Regards,

Steve.

Today 25th July is painfully, painfully slow.

Corresponding with U.S.A. and New Zealand is much faster.

Glencairn


Could you elaborate what you mean about "Corresponding with U.S.A and New Zealand is much faster?"

The site is hosted within the UK, with Amazon, who have a massive ...