This forum is flooded with bots

[Porcupine]

In total there are 2302 users online :: 4 registered, 0 hidden and 2298 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)

Oratan is currently very slow again, like last time I thought the site was down at first. There had been large amounts of bot users for the past month, but they weren't causing slowdown.

[MentholMoose]

Thanks, it looks like more bot traffic from Tencent Cloud.

[Porcupine]

In total there are 1662 users online :: 3 registered, 0 hidden and 1659 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)

Thanks, after it was fixed the number of users dropped low again, then today it is elevated once again. Site isn't slow like a few days ago, but there are slight occasional delays.

[MentholMoose]

I registered a couple of new bots but unfortunately most of these guests are bots not identifying themselves correctly.

[Porcupine]

For the past few weeks bot activity has been up. Most of the time the count lists about 500 and site speed is unaffected.

In total there are 517 users online :: 3 registered, 0 hidden and 514 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)

However the site has been down for several scattered, entire days during the past few weeks. I didn't think much of it until today. I coincidentally barely managed to load the webpage, after minutes, during today's oratan.com down time and saw this:

In total there are 1334 users online :: 5 registered, 0 hidden and 1329 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 13530 on 19 Oct 2025, 12:51

And also much more of this:

Gateway Timeout

The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server or application.