The Wonderland Board

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2024 4:40 am**

Hi folks,

sorry that the site was down a couple of days - as always, it just happened when I was also off email for a bit, so I didn't see message until just now. I think we're back in business though.

Best,
Patrick

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2024 8:11 am**

No worries - glad the forum's back up!

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2024 9:08 am**

Thank you!

Side note, week before the downtime i was getting logged off constantly even when I had remember me toggled on, Ill update this if it happens again now.

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2024 9:09 am**

Thank you Midnight Synergy. I appreciate you keeping this community online after so many years.

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2024 9:52 am**

Wonderland is among my most influential and enjoyable childhood games, Thanks for keeping it going for so long

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2024 10:07 am**

Have events like this happened before?

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2024 2:43 pm**

It can happen. Running a website is no easy task

Echoing previous posts, thank you Patrick for keeping this place up and running for so long! I do still pop back in here in between periods of inactivity and it's great to see both new & familiar faces

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2024 4:39 pm**

I love you.

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2024 4:43 pm**

Thanks you very much Patrick for keeping this community alive and thriving!

Also one more note for community members: the forums now support uploading WonderlandPlus.NET .lvlx files without hassles so you don't need to zip them up now, again many many thanks to Patrick for this.

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2024 11:18 pm**

Thank you Patrick!

I'm not sure if phpBB has an option for it, but you may want to consider doing site backups every now and then just in case something more difficult crosses our path.

Posted: **Wed May 01, 2024 11:35 pm**

Like, the server gets knocked out by a solar flare!

Posted: **Thu May 02, 2024 12:29 am**

Echoing what's been restated here, but as always, thank you MS for keeping this place afloat. It's a nice niche.

TwingleTheScraggler wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 11:35 pm Like, the server gets knocked out by a solar flare!

If a solar flare were to take out *just* the forum's servers, that may as well be divine intervention.

Posted: **Thu May 02, 2024 7:03 pm**

You're right. A solar flare would take out servers around the world.

Posted: **Thu May 02, 2024 7:15 pm**

bro really changed sorry to soz

Posted: **Thu May 02, 2024 8:08 pm**

Thanks Patrick and no worries about server going down I understand as I host my own website server and use phpbb.

Posted: **Fri May 03, 2024 4:05 pm**

fyi the logout issue still happens to me every once in a while

Posted: **Fri May 03, 2024 5:34 pm**

Great to have the forum up and running again!

Posted: **Sat May 04, 2024 7:36 pm**

Thanks all for the messages! I'm glad to see the forum and game continue into their now third decade! I know I'm not active on the forum myself (and hence miss some things, like a major crash haha), but I plan to keep this running... until of course that giant solar flare that Twingle mentioned

Posted: **Sat May 04, 2024 9:35 pm**

Midnight Synergy wrote: Sat May 04, 2024 7:36 pm Thanks all for the messages! I'm glad to see the forum and game continue into their now third decade! I know I'm not active on the forum myself (and hence miss some things, like a major crash haha), but I plan to keep this running... until of course that giant solar flare that Twingle mentioned

Do you ever plan on backing up the site so it doesn't get lost?

Posted: **Sat May 04, 2024 11:57 pm**

While I'm not as active as I was long ago, I drop by every so often. I was more-so worried that my account may be hacked to go with it.

It seems like not only this site, but other forums have been affected. Basically any forum site under the same engine. I once tried visiting another forum and was turned away by a similar error. But even that one was back up, which coincides with the state of this one.

Posted: **Sun May 05, 2024 3:25 am**

Cyndanera wrote: Sat May 04, 2024 9:35 pm
Midnight Synergy wrote: Sat May 04, 2024 7:36 pm Thanks all for the messages! I'm glad to see the forum and game continue into their now third decade! I know I'm not active on the forum myself (and hence miss some things, like a major crash haha), but I plan to keep this running... until of course that giant solar flare that Twingle mentioned
Do you ever plan on backing up the site so it doesn't get lost?

My thoughts exactly!

Posted: **Sun May 05, 2024 3:23 pm**

Yes, I do backup the site once in a while with the phpbb backup option. In fact, I'll run one now.

Posted: **Mon May 06, 2024 1:23 pm**

Midnight Synergy wrote: Sun May 05, 2024 3:23 pm Yes, I do backup the site once in a while with the phpbb backup option. In fact, I'll run one now.

Would you be open to a wonderland adventures made with unity for other platforms like stinky and loof in wonderland?
David any thoughts?

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2024 12:08 am**

I think I may have found the reason why the forum keeps going down:
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2652265
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2652748

It seems that this "Claudebot" is some kind of bot that's aggressively scraping forums and other websites. Having so many requests at a time is probably what keeps crashing the forum MySQL tables. At the time of me posting this there aren't too many guests visiting the forum (which might mean that Patrick has already blocked the bot), but I know a couple of weeks ago the guest count was very high. The threads I linked to were made around the same time this issue started too.

Edit: A few minutes after posting this it went from around 40 guests to 100..

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2024 2:06 am**

I see

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2024 7:04 pm**

jdl wrote: Tue May 28, 2024 12:08 am I think I may have found the reason why the forum keeps going down:
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2652265
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2652748

It seems that this "Claudebot" is some kind of bot that's aggressively scraping forums and other websites. Having so many requests at a time is probably what keeps crashing the forum MySQL tables. At the time of me posting this there aren't too many guests visiting the forum (which might mean that Patrick has already blocked the bot), but I know a couple of weeks ago the guest count was very high. The threads I linked to were made around the same time this issue started too.

Edit: A few minutes after posting this it went from around 40 guests to 100..

What does "scraping" mean? It doesn't sound like a good thing.

Posted: **Tue May 28, 2024 11:43 pm**

TwingleTheScraggler wrote: Tue May 28, 2024 7:04 pm
jdl wrote: Tue May 28, 2024 12:08 am I think I may have found the reason why the forum keeps going down:
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2652265
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2652748

It seems that this "Claudebot" is some kind of bot that's aggressively scraping forums and other websites. Having so many requests at a time is probably what keeps crashing the forum MySQL tables. At the time of me posting this there aren't too many guests visiting the forum (which might mean that Patrick has already blocked the bot), but I know a couple of weeks ago the guest count was very high. The threads I linked to were made around the same time this issue started too.

Edit: A few minutes after posting this it went from around 40 guests to 100..
What does "scraping" mean? It doesn't sound like a good thing.

I was referring to website scraping/crawling. Basically harvesting data from websites for purposes such as search engine indexing, website archiving, ai training, and so on. You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping

Posted: **Wed Jun 12, 2024 10:43 pm**

Midnight Synergy wrote: Sat May 04, 2024 7:36 pm Thanks all for the messages! I'm glad to see the forum and game continue into their now third decade! I know I'm not active on the forum myself (and hence miss some things, like a major crash haha), but I plan to keep this running... until of course that giant solar flare that Twingle mentioned

Always happy to chat about taking over forum's tech operations - I don't exactly have the most time in the world but WonderWiki is still going strong.

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