Random slowdowns on the forum

[Koub]

Hi, I'm experiencing right now random slowdowns on page loads when browsing the forum. Doesn't happen on every page, but still quite often.
I was able to capture one of these in the network monitor of my browser :

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Can happen on any kind of action : while banning a spambot, trying to preview the post I'm currently writing, loading a single thread, with or without images, ...

Are there currently known issues with the forum hosting ?

[steinio]

Same

[picklock]

I can confirm the behavior, too.

[mmmPI]

To me it happens when i try to preview or post something, and edit not so much when changing pages

also logging in is always slow, but not showing the "active topics"

[FuryoftheStars]

I was just experiencing this a little bit ago, too. Was just trying to go to the main board page to see what was highlighted as having new posts, but it was taking forever to load, so I moved on to something else. It seems to be loading at normal speeds now at the moment.

Edit: And about 10 mins later, it's struggling again....

[Koub]

OK thanks everyone for the confirmation, now I know it's not just me. The Devs will probably get things fixed as soon as the weekend is over.

[Sanqui]

Just want to drop a quick update that the performance issues were caused by a bit of a DoS vulnerability in phpBB that somebody seemingly decided to exploit, we're working on patching it up.

[mmmPI]

I had no such problems today

[aka13]

I wonder why you'd dos a forum of a non-competetive game though

[FuryoftheStars]

I wonder why you'd dos a forum of a non-competetive game though

Because some people are bored, a-holes, or maybe just had a plain old gripe against Factorio and/or its devs.