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2026.04.07

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I checked on the site last night and lo-and-behold, the entire site was down due to a new type of DDoS attack against the forum.
This time, the requests have been coming from all-over such as the United States, Mexico and Saudia Arabia.
There didn't seem to be as many individual user agents, so they managed to get under the 500-user ceiling that's set on phpBB, but those fewer endpoints seemed to be creating more requests with more demanding queries.
According to phpBB's own forum, we aren't the only people to be honoured with this special treatment.

The thing that seems to solve the problem best is just to play cat and mouse and move the URL path of the forum around so that the bots just receive a 404 error.

I have written my own little 'viewtopic.php' script in the original location so that real users can be forwarded from static links on gallery/media pages to topics on the forum in their new location.

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The news system icons have been adjusted to match the colours of the site.

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