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[mk-soft]

Forum of German and SpiderBasic forum is opening. But not english forum
I am login from VM-Linux on the same machine.
From macOS 15.1.1 with Safari v18.1

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[Fred]

Yes there is too much request from Intel macos scripts so its disabled for now. You can may be try with another browser or changing the user agent

[mk-soft]

Yes there is too much request from Intel macos scripts so its disabled for now. You can may be try with another browser or changing the user agent

I have changed the user agent.

Is that the problem with the macOS scripts that made the forum so slow?
I assume that it is not from my computer

[Fred]

Yes someone or a bot use osx like user agent which almost freeze the forums

[mk-soft]

Yes someone or a bot use osx like user agent which almost freeze the forums

I used Wireshark for macOS to check the traffic from my computer to purebasic.fr ...
No virus and no unusual traffic from my side

[skywalk]

I see slow down when guests > 20.
But, human guests are not exhausting the forum.
Any chance to force logins with non-guest account?

[Quin]

I see slow down when guests > 20.
But, human guests are not exhausting the forum.
Any chance to force logins with non-guest account?

Fully agreed, user agents are very easy to spoof and I think a right out guest block would fix the problem once and for all.
Even if it gets removed again after a while to be more welcoming,I'd say enable it at least until what is effectively a DDoS attack stops.

[Piero]

I just spoofed my user agent in a very, VERY simple way (on Mac)
I think I better not say how for the moment…
…anyway I bet it's a Mac user angry at Fred because of the form “designer„