ConwayLife.com

like 20 minutes ago when i tried to go to anywhere on conwaylife.com it showed "general error" and i had to refresh multiple times

tommyaweosme wrote: April 17th, 2024, 4:52 pm... and i had to refresh multiple times

... which might be one of causes of said general error. I currently see around 70-80 guests on the forums.

confocaloid wrote: April 17th, 2024, 5:03 pm I currently see around 70-80 guests on the forums.

Now up to 93 guests (10:00 PM UTC-5). Yet I got no error, ever.

Must be a momentary glitch?

I think that just happens sometimes. It usually doesn't last long. If it's a persistent problem for you, it would be helpful if you could give more details such as a copy-paste or screenshot of the error message, which operating system and browser you use, and when or how often the error seems to occur.

I’m getting the error this time, this is what I see:

I got the error as well: edit: Got the error again, two days later.
(Ironically, i got the error yet again right after submitting the above edit.)

i got it too a few hours ago

Same:

I've also started getting the General Error message.

Right now, the number of guests is hovering at around 200. Here is a screenshot:

Sometimes it starts happening noticeably more frequently (like, every three or four page load attempts).
Sometimes it doesn't happen, or happens just once or twice in a day.
This is from my observations over last several months or so.

Users browsing this forum: Vort and 184 guests

I suspect such large amount of connections can be made by some web crawler bot.

This error has been occurring often and has destroyed a bunch of progress in a recent post I made, but the wiki appears to be in even worse shape, with the page formatting sometimes completely breaking in all possible combinatorial ways.

muzik wrote: August 10th, 2024, 4:34 pm This error has been occurring often and has destroyed a bunch of progress in a recent post I made, but the wiki appears to be in even worse shape, with the page formatting sometimes completely breaking in all possible combinatorial ways.

When I want to reply this post, it comes again.
File:

Every time I try to get to another post on the forum, I still get the error saying

"User psstoref_conwaylife already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections [1203]
An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists."

Bro, how does this even happen, and how can this be resolved?

Also, I see multiple guests on the forums, could this be the reason, are they bots?

Drelectron8 wrote: August 11th, 2024, 1:13 am Every time I try to get to another post on the forum, I still get the error saying

"User psstoref_conwaylife already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections [1203]
An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists."

Bro, how does this even happen, and how can this be resolved?

Also, I see multiple guests on the forums, could this be the reason, are they bots?

I got this:

I also observe these oddities. And one more thing: sometimes, after clicking the like button, an error may appear: Another strange thing: the list of active users shows that some guests are viewing member profiles and replying to messages, but this is impossible.

I also observe these oddities. I observed them when posting the Reply button as well as the Submit button (these have occured when I was trying to write this post).

I can see some guests replying to threads:

Posting again here.

Just a few seconds ago this same error has happened again:

- twice when clicking on 'General Discussion', reloading, and clicking again
- twice when clicking on this topic, reloading, and clicking again
- four times when trying to submit this post, reloading, and clicking again

Drelectron8 wrote: August 11th, 2024, 1:13 am Also, I see multiple guests on the forums, could this be the reason, are they bots?

Yesterday and today, the quset total never <100.Who are they?

Recently, I see many registered members that had never posted. Perhaps these are for malicious purposes? However, there's nothing good for spammers to target this forum.
How can guests reply to threads?

b-engine wrote: August 11th, 2024, 4:02 am Recently, I see many registered members that had never posted. Perhaps these are for malicious purposes? However, there's nothing good for spammers to target this forum.
How can guests reply to threads?

They're attempting to reply to threads, but the message is preventing them.

Relevant:

LittleLWSS wrote: August 11th, 2024, 6:18 am I've noticed that sometimes your LifeWiki pops up with a "Can't access database", what's going on? Is there a problem with your website?

b-engine wrote: August 11th, 2024, 4:02 am [...] However, there's nothing good for spammers to target this forum. [...]

Spammers can find or invent lots of reasons to do something that looks totally ridiculous from the viewpoint of a reasonable well-intentioned person.

One possible reason is confusion between Life and life. LWTDS

Another possible reason is that, well, maybe they are people who didn't understand mathematics (perhaps due to some bad luck with a teacher or something), and now they don't believe anyone could possibly seriously view mathematics as something interesting or fun, and maybe now those people are trying to disrupt a place they accidentally found, where some strange people are apparently trying to discuss some mathematics?
A horribly misguided attempt to change the world by DDoSing a website?

Why do so many people dislike maths? wrote:High school math classes are a complete disaster which leads to many people coming out hating math without realizing that it isn't the math they hate. Usually it's either the class or the teacher.

May13 wrote: August 11th, 2024, 1:32 am... the list of active users shows that some guests are viewing member profiles and replying to messages, but this is impossible ...

Are special moderator-like rights needed to view this information?
Anyway, it means that my yesterday assumption about crawler was incorrect.

confocaloid wrote: August 11th, 2024, 6:28 am ... Spammers can find or invent lots of reasons to do something that looks totally ridiculous from the viewpoint of a reasonable well-intentioned person ...

... A horribly misguided attempt to change the world by DDoSing a website? ...

Poorly written spambot is most likely reason I think.
(they waste not only resources of this forum, but their own too)

Another common reason is conflicts inside of community.
Was anyone banned recently?