OccultForum.org

Just wanted to say I'm happy to see the forum back online, seems to be working real well!

Was it down for anybody?
I was checking it daily, few times daily, and I didn't not noticed any issues.
Earlier today I did notice traffic was unusually low, suspiciously, so I disabled some security bits, just in case cloudflare was getting overly aggressive with their filters.
Either case, I'll keep monitoring it all, to try and keep it more balanced, forum accessible and in working order.

Down for me for a couple days

Cerber wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 1:24 am Was it down for anybody?
I was checking it daily, few times daily, and I didn't not noticed any issues.
Earlier today I did notice traffic was unusually low, suspiciously, so I disabled some security bits, just in case cloudflare was getting overly aggressive with their filters.
Either case, I'll keep monitoring it all, to try and keep it more balanced, forum accessible and in working order.

For about 3-4 days I was getting (from cloudflare) a "523 error, Site Unreachable" I thought it was offline for maintenance, seems OK Now though.

I was unable to get here for the past two days. Figured the bots finally broke through.

Ah, I see. Sorry about that guys, it might have been caused by me, partially.
Bots didn't get to it, forum was running ok (technically), but I accidentally made some machine spirit angry for a couple days and out of spite it started blocking almost all visitors. It's not angry any more and we'll try to keep them happy.
The other day I noticed cloudflare was still letting a lot of bots to pass trough, so I tried some "minor" adjustment to lower bot traffic a bit further, but looks like CL didn't quite like that.
Not sure if behind root cause of that is some nefarious element from cloudflare (because they make money from "managing" bot traffic), or is it just their system configuration to misinterpret server responses and, if something falls even slightly outside their normal parameters, "take down" site for prolonged periods.
Regardless, I've turned everything back to normal now, and unless there's some emergency need, I'll leave it all as it is permanently, even if 90% of traffic are still from bots, server can handle that.

@Cerber,
Yeah, doing real good Now!

Cerber wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 2:56 am I accidentally made some machine spirit angry for a couple days and out of spite it started blocking almost all visitors.

I hate it when that happens! Exclaim loudly: "APO PANTOS KAKODAIMONOS!" That should do the trick.

On the brighter side, at least now we have much better idea how far we can push CF spirits. What makes them jolly, what makes them mildly annoyed and when they start flipping the tables in rage.
In case we ever need to lean back on this bumpy experience