CF “security” and “captchas”

[rusmeister]

Last month, CF went down for a day, and since it came back up, it has become much harder for me to access the forums. At best, I am forced to wait 20-30 seconds (when “DDOS flare” promises “up to 5 seconds”), and very often have to run a gamut of captchas of boats and buses. It makes it more of a turn-off.

Anyone else have that experience?

 

[All4Christ]

Last month, CF went down for a day, and since it came back up, it has become much harder for me to access the forums. At best, I am forced to wait 20-30 seconds (when “DDOS flare” promises “up to 5 seconds”), and very often have to run a gamut of captchas of boats and buses. It makes it more of a turn-off.

Anyone else have that experience?

Not here. Sorry that’s happening! That’d be frustrating.

 

[ArmyMatt]

not on my end. sorry, rus.

 

[prodromos]

Have you tried using a VPN? Make it appear you are not in Russia.

 

[prodromos]

I have had occasional periods where CF appears to be offline. I have a VPN on my laptop which is set to Australia, but no VPN on my phone. I haven't actually checked if CF is still accessible on my phone when it is offline on my laptop.

 

[rusmeister]

Have you tried using a VPN? Make it appear you are not in Russia.

VPNs were made technically illegal here several years ago, though I guess they only go after really big fish using them, but the local ISP makes things difficult sometimes. It's funny how the national carriers don't worry about blocking so many sites, but if you go local wifi in my town, a lot of absurd things wind up getting blocked (fear of the national watchdog). I turn off the wifi, and no problem. But on the PC I can't do that.

 

[Freth]

I haven't had any slow-down whatsoever since the last time the forum was down. I'm on the forum many hours of the day, so if something was happening on the forum server side, I would've noticed it.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Last month, CF went down for a day, and since it came back up, it has become much harder for me to access the forums. At best, I am forced to wait 20-30 seconds (when “DDOS flare” promises “up to 5 seconds”), and very often have to run a gamut of captchas of boats and buses. It makes it more of a turn-off.

Anyone else have that experience?

I've noticed for months that I would get a non-https site or that the site was busy and have to re-try in a new tab.

I don't recall seeing any captchas or a cloudflare page saying please wait However.

I only see the cloudflare reference when the site is actually down.

 

[SeraphimSarov]

I think it's because you're in Russia, rus. Too bad VPNs are illegal; it's the only fix I can think of.

 

[rusmeister]

I think it's because you're in Russia, rus. Too bad VPNs are illegal; it's the only fix I can think of.

It’s not the Russian government causing the problem. It’s CF.

 

[Andrei D]

It’s not the Russian government causing the problem. It’s CF.

Probably. If they had attacks from IP blocks that are similar to yours, then they have increased security for those IPs. What can they do?

 

[SeraphimSarov]

It’s not the Russian government causing the problem. It’s CF.

Well yes, unfortunately. I would second Andrei's suggestion.

 

[Platina]

it's the same for me, Rus.

 

[Nick1000]

It’s not the Russian government causing the problem. It’s CF.

I would imagine that the moderator of this forum could "whitelist" your IP address because you are known to the forum versus a bot or hit and run visitor working some angle. Or I will just say that that type of thing is often done elsewhere when the problem arises. Moderators have their own rules of course and I respect that. Just saying what works technically sometimes.

 

[tampasteve]

When people are having issues like this it would be best for them to make a Ticket in Support. There are a number of things we can do on the back end to troubleshoot the issue and hopefully fix it. At the very least we can let you know if it is just "you" or if it is network wide and something we are working on.