Martain2 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 Just had the Cloudflare verifier again, oddly not on my first visit today either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenoblast91 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Martain2 said: Just had the Cloudflare verifier again, oddly not on my first visit today either. I always have the CloudFlare thing on every device I use. It is annoying since trying to load any page or to refresh it takes like 3-5 minutes to load. My internet is decent (is low by international standards) but helps, though. I was surprised to see it first time since had like 2 months without getting into the Forums or the Profiles page itself. Edited June 9, 2023 by Xenoblast91 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 On 6/6/2023 at 5:49 PM, HusKy said: The forum is just slow, not much you can do about it. 4-5 seconds sounds about right. Some subsections don't load at all, for example "Game Forums - S". My guess would be that the forum software (Invision Board) is not optimized for so many subforums (22 000+ subforums) or some scaling issue with database. Yeah the T forums don't load either, they just bring back a Bad Gateway error, I brought this up months ago in another thread, and it has been happening for months before I said something...so this has been a problem for at least a year. But your idea makes sense here as it's S and T that don't load...the two letters that make up most game titles. As for Cloudflare, I didn't have it for a couple days now it's back again...which brought me back to this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntingFever Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Sigh, CloudFlare is back for me as well since late last night . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAK-KRIEG Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 1 hour ago, HuntingFever said: Sigh, CloudFlare is back for me as well since late last night . Yup... Back for me as well this morning. Just a tiny bit annoying. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkrobot_pb Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 On 7-6-2023 at 3:19 PM, Raidou Kuzunoha XIV said: My own post was 90% on-topic and was just removed it seems... This is the only forum I've ever used where posts will just be silently removed without any explanation. Good moderation takes a lot of time and energy, especially on such a big forum with so many users. Closing topics and removing posts is the easier and quicker way out. The only good thing is that you get to keep your rep points. Just the other day I basically told someone that they were being an asshole. The post was removed, but it is still sort of satisfying to see that at least 10 people agreed with me, looking at my rep points. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kindajustin Posted June 16, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2023 1 hour ago, pinkrobot_pb said: Good moderation takes a lot of time and energy, especially on such a big forum with so many users. Closing topics and removing posts is the easier and quicker way out. The only good thing is that you get to keep your rep points. Just the other day I basically told someone that they were being an asshole. The post was removed, but it is still sort of satisfying to see that at least 10 people agreed with me, looking at my rep points. As much as that is true, they gotta adopt a level of consistency and transparency with the moderation here. Less than two days ago we had a thread here that was productive and civil and a staff member of this very site even commented saying that no rules were being broken and that as long as that continued, the thread should not be removed. The thread was quietly removed less than 24 hours after that comment was posted. There's a user on these forums who posts some kind of GIF or JPEG with basically half of their forum posts and nothing ever really gets done about it which is fine. But the one time I post an image to the forums including text to establish relevance? Image removed. I've given up on trying to understand the rules here personally. Back on topic, Cloudflare isn't back for me because it never left. I've been getting 30 second long load times, infinite verification loops, and bad gateway errors for maybe 3 weeks now. For what it's worth, it does seem a lot more frequent when I check the forums prior to logging in. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pinkrobot_pb Posted June 16, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2023 (edited) 8 minutes ago, kindajustin said: I've given up on trying to understand the rules here personally. Yup, me too. I do not try to understand and have let go of my own opinions about good moderation a long time ago. I have been a member of - and myself run a fair few - online communities since the mid 90's. Here it's just different. If a post stays up, it stays up, but I am never expecting anything at this place. And indeed, on topic: Cloudflare checks all over the place yes. But a small inconvenience compared to the many other issues plagueing this site. Edited June 16, 2023 by pinkrobot_pb 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidou Kuzunoha XIV Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, pinkrobot_pb said: Good moderation takes a lot of time and energy, especially on such a big forum with so many users. Closing topics and removing posts is the easier and quicker way out. The only good thing is that you get to keep your rep points. Just the other day I basically told someone that they were being an asshole. The post was removed, but it is still sort of satisfying to see that at least 10 people agreed with me, looking at my rep points. While that's definitely true, there's a fair few forums larger than this one that seem to have better and more consistent moderation imho. This is actually probably one of the smallest and least active forums I frequent nowadays (I can count the number of forums I semi-regularly visit on one hand, to be fair, not including the handful of subreddits I occasionally check out). As @kindajustin said, the main issue is that the moderation here is just weirdly spotty and inconsistent. I'm honestly surprised the post I made that you're quoting hasn't been removed yet, or the other posts before it pointing out that posts had been deleted. Sometimes when a post is mostly on-topic, only the off-topic section will be edited out by mods, and other times the entire post is deleted. Then sometimes posts that are entirely off-topic are just left alone... I could go on but I'm sure many people here are familiar with this anyway. On topic, I'm also getting the Cloudflare page again every so often as of about a week ago. I mostly only visit the main page here nowadays to check the new game/DLC lists and if there's any new trophy guides, and the Cloudflare issue seems to mostly be affecting the forums for me, but it's occasionally affected the home page as well. Edited June 16, 2023 by Raidou Kuzunoha XIV 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PotrikBerger Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 On 07/06/2023 at 2:37 PM, HuntingFever said: I spoke too soon, the CloudFlare problem is back again for me with a vengeance . Yeah I’m getting this much more regularly now. Last time I couldn’t access for 4 days. Beyond annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRetroManiac Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Cloudflare came back yesterday for me and that means Firefox is useless again with the infinite loop for verification, and so I'm back on Google Chrome where I get hit with it but least I'm able to verify and use the site. Be nice if this got fixed once and for all, among other things, but not looking likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slava Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Regular browser checks is what I've been seeing the entire time for the last 2 or so years. There was a previous version, now it's cloudflare. Happens every few hours every day with rare exceptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoastedPeanut Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 I'll always have to deal with Cloudflare if I don't have my VPN on (I'm in China), but recently it's back even with my VPN. Some days I get caught in an infinite loop and others it just takes a couple of seconds before I get through 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slava Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 1 minute ago, RoastedPeanut said: Some days I get caught in an infinite loop That's what was happening to me last time. With the current version, the main issue is when the cloudflare thing itself refuses to load ?. None of that with VPN, though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burritoprime Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 It was gone for a few days but since yesterday the cloudflare thing is happening again, not as often but it happens, that and some pictures are not loading at all...damn it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HedleyNEUK Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 Back with a vengeance for me when on my works PC, dont think it popped up on my home laptop yesterday though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUDGER666 Posted June 19, 2023 Author Share Posted June 19, 2023 That Cloudflare is actually got bad for me today, taking ages to go away and a lot more frequent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightDragon Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 I don’t get annoyed with that easily, but it finally annoyed me enough to make a thread about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PotrikBerger Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 1 hour ago, MidnightDragon said: I don’t get annoyed with that easily, but it finally annoyed me enough to make a thread about it. I mentioned it above but it keeps happening now, i haven't been able to get into psn profiles for three days now because of poxy cloudflare, have had to use somebody else's laptop to log in tonight. It lets me on my psn profile page no problem, but to be honest i dont use this site for that side of it. Its all about the forums for me and cloudflare is making it more difficult week on week to actually access it. Its maddening enough to make me want to go all juvenile, throw my toys around and threaten to leave the site and other such unbecoming statements. But i dont want that (its literally the only site I use and visit on the web) and honestly, who really cares about posts like that? Its just beyond disappointing and I wish cloudflare would fcuk off back to wherever it came from. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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