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Site renovation project is still ongoing, but the forum of course works as usual. Some seríous foundation work has been made to the site and some new features are added now and then. For the past four months we have been inundated with high volumes and high frequency of network traffic that has been tracked to uncontrolled access to our forum by bots. Even some of the good bots are connecting with 90+ ip addresses many of those are calling the exact same url. They ignore our robots.txt file, and then demand that we go to their site to set how to control their bot! Our members are experiencing periods of poor performance and the forum has crashed at least twice during that time, when the bots overwhelmed the available resources from our cloud provider. This exploitation costs real money that hobbyists can ill afford. Regrettably, we are now forced to temporarily not allow unauthenticated viewing of our forum until we can put in place a way to manage the poor behaviour of these bots. From today 20 March 2026 and for the foreseeable future, you will need a login, a password and a valid e-mail address to register and then access the forum. I am sorry that it has had to come to this, but not taking control means that we will no longer be able to afford to continue to have an online presence. If you are an existing user, but you don't know your password just click on the "Lost Password" link and you will receive an e-mail with instructions on how to reset your password. If you your e-mail address does not match the one in our system, you will need to register as a new user and make contact with one of the moderators, who will verify your old e-mail address before fixing your old account. |