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the bots are back

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I don't know how they did it but they need to get the hell out.
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muzik wrote: March 20th, 2026, 5:06 am I don't know how they did it but they need to get the hell out.
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Oh...
I thought they were normal users...
I was wondering how there were suddenly so many people online!

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I6_I6 wrote: March 20th, 2026, 10:04 am I thought they were normal users...
I was wondering how there were suddenly so many people online!
Yeah, Conway's Game of Life just isn't that big. If it was, we would probably had Sir Robin discovered by the 2000s.
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Could we obtain the IP addresses of the bots and backtrack to know whoever tried to DDoS the forums?
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Is it possible to revert the viewership statistics to pre-DDoS numbers?
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muzik wrote: March 22nd, 2026, 7:00 am Is it possible to revert the viewership statistics to pre-DDoS numbers?
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And add monthly and yearly records? (the record stayed the same for 5 years)
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they did not find the post they were looking for . . .
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unname4798 wrote: March 22nd, 2026, 7:11 am And add monthly and yearly records? (the record stayed the same for 5 years)
Out of curiosity, what was the non-botted record if anyone knows?
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TheWayOfTheCon wrote: March 22nd, 2026, 3:20 pm
Out of curiosity, what was the non-botted record if anyone knows?
I think it was 2909 in September 2020.
137 days until New York's age verification law goes into effect.

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This will not be a concern going Forward.
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Bots again? Nearly 5000 users?
EDIT: almost 7000 now.
EDIT2: Damn
The website wrote: Most users ever online was 11368 on June 24th, 2026, 11:47 pm
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In case anyone with the power to do so (probably just Nathaniel) wants to reset to a prior record value to cleanse the site of this scraper bot junk, here's what I could find on the internet archive:
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i can't access this site anymore under normal circumstances because of the cloudflare captcha that is forced on every visitor
here's the gosper glider gun

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tommyaweosme wrote: June 29th, 2026, 8:43 pm i can't access this site anymore under normal circumstances because of the cloudflare captcha that is forced on every visitor
Try a different browser. That fixed the issue on Chrome for me.
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x = 10, y = 3, rule = B34twz/S23
b2o4b2o$obo4bobo$2bo4bo!
[[ AUTOSTART AUTOHIDEGUI TRACK 0 -47/270 ZOOM 4 GPS 45 STEP 3 THEME BOOK ]]
https://nnlk05.github.io

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