The issues where the site will be really slow at loading or not load at all has been mostly resolved. It was related to the excessive bot traffic. We're still getting a lot of bot traffic but I've installed some things and configured various settings on the server to handle some of it.

I'm hoping what I did is good enough for now but there's no way to know for sure.

I'm glad you were able to find a solution! Everything has definitely been loading much quicker since last night. It's good to be able to navigate the site smoothly again.

Do the bots provide any significant traffic that leads to any form of revenue?

thing1: Indirectly yeah, for some bots anyway. If it's search engine bots, they have to scan the site in order to rank my site, so most of them are valuable. Then there's bots like the internet archive bot, which is also good to have because that's how historic records of the site get preserved. But then there's the random malicious bots that seem to have no purpose and view pages that shouldn't exist, they are the ones that put bad strain on teh site.

Can you look into why some of my posts are disappearing?

I just did a 993 word review on Fire Emblem Three Houses and it's completely broken for no reason.

https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105724&ppp=50&page=0#1412541



I'm posting on mobile, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it.

SuperCrash64: Did you copy and paste it into the post editor or did you type it into the post editor directly? Another user had an issue with a longer post a week or two ago that was copied and pasted from another document. Usually it's only the formatting that gets messed up from copy & paste; that was the first time I've seen the post disappear completely.

Your review does show up in the logs as being a 993-word post, by the way, even though it shows up blank when viewing the review itself. Not sure what to make of that.

If you still have the review saved elsewhere, I'd recommend trying again with the "Basic" post editor. I switched to the Basic post editor a long time ago because it generally seemed to be less buggy. Not sure if it would make a difference in your case, but it's worth a try.

If you don't have it saved anywhere else, I'm really sorry that the site lost your work.

I typed directly into the post editor as copy pasting on mobile is a pain to do.

And judging by things, I'm assuming I'm not alone look at becerra95s post.


I'm sincerely hoping it's a mobile issue and not on PC.

tgags123 :

The thread is trashed so I probably won't be able to fix it

I can now confirm that the bot problems are now gone, the site hasn't been going down at all recently, and the site has been very smooth too.

Im glad it's been working way better for a few days I could access the site once every 30 minutes glad it was resolved in time for all the activity today!

Some issues that I probably wont be able to get to any time soon.

SuperCrash64 : When you say disappearing, are you saying that the post had been showing up and then disappeared or are you saying that the post just didn't submit? Also, which post editor are you using?

SonicOlmstead : Good to hear and huge relief.

Post editor is the current default one.

And it's not a case of it not submitting, it gets submitted but it's completely blank.

For a good example you can look at becerra95s post in this thread, I wish I knew how to reproduce so I could better help you track it down.


And at present I had two accounts from tgags123: and PokemonX: that confirmed my 938 word count was there, but again my post showed up completely blank.

Yeah, just to add on to what SuperCrash is talking about, he wrote a review on mobile and when he submitted it the website registered it as 938 words and gave him the appropriate amount of CP and Viz, but the post itself was blank. I clicked the edit button to see if the text was still there but just invisible for some reason (maybe a layout issue) but the post also showed up blank when I tried to edit it.

RMJEtheReploid had a similar issue a few weeks ago, I believe.