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[aaronk]

Hi,

When I browse the B4X forums, I almost always get redirected to a Cloudflare check page before the forum page loads. This happens nearly every time I open a page from search results.

About half of the images don’t display on the first load. I usually have to refresh the page before they appear.

This issue isn’t limited to one device or network. I’ve tested on:MacBook Pro, iPhone (using cellular data), Windows 10 desktop.

I’ve also tried different internet connections (home, office, and mobile data), but the problem is the same across all of them.

Is anyone else experiencing this, or could there be something I need to check on my side?

 

[zed]

+1

 

[Alessandro71]

same issue, happen every few pages, but only on my iPad.
no issue on my Windows 11 pc

 

[josejad]

Hi:

It happens to me with my ipad, just the first page after a while without browsing the forum.
It began to happen since I'm using Duckduckgo browser, so I think it's something related with cookies, adblocking or something like that.

 

[Alessandro71]

just plain Safari for me, no blockers or refused cookies

 

[Erel]

I've added some rate limits that trigger the "managed challenge" page. There was a flood of thousands of bots crawling the forum 24/7. I only see it if I open like 8 tabs at a time and then it continues working after passing the challenge.

 

[Alessandro71]

I've added some rate limits that trigger the "managed challenge" page. There was a flood of thousands of bots crawling the forum 24/7. I only see it if I open like 8 tabs at a time and then it continues working after passing the challenge.

Just for adding context: in my iPad I have just one tab.
anyway, it’s a minor annoyance if it shields from flooding, I’ll deal with it

 

[aaronk]

I am finding it keeps showing the Cloudflare challenge page, and I am only opening one page at a time. Images then don't show every time. I wonder if the images on pages are triggering the rate limit somehow.

 

[Erel]

I've increased the rate limit. Please update me if you still encounter it too often in a day or two.

Note that the challenge success rate of this rule was 0.45%. Which means that 99% of the cases are probably misbehaving bots.