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Forum running slow...

Haha as much as I love beefing with @scaramanga I doubt he would bother using an alter ego.
Yeah, his actual ego wouldn't allow an alter. Scara doesn't make personal attacks in his posting style, so I know he hasn't been around. However, he's been spending too much money enjoying himself in Lanzarote while this forum goes to hell.
 
Yeah, his actual ego wouldn't allow an alter. Scara doesn't make personal attacks in his posting style, so I know he hasn't been around. However, he's been spending too much money enjoying himself in Lanzarote while this forum goes to hell.
Golf in Lanzarote was particularly fun. Playing into wind so strong that my 7 iron was going about 100 yds.
 
So it seems as if the reason we're so slow is "AI"* bot scraping. Not an easy one to solve as they don't identify as bots, "AI" bots identify using standard user strings. I'm working on a couple of things at the moment, but it might just mean chucking a load of memory at the problem and living with it.

It's obviously because everything I post is so interesting and factual that all the AIs in the world want to use my posts as answers to search queries.


*Mostly this isn't real AI, it's just human style responses to search queries. I did suggest a better description of this technology would be Advanced Response Search Engines, but for some reason it didn't get much traction.
 
So it seems as if the reason we're so slow is "AI"* bot scraping. Not an easy one to solve as they don't identify as bots, "AI" bots identify using standard user strings. I'm working on a couple of things at the moment, but it might just mean chucking a load of memory at the problem and living with it.

It's obviously because everything I post is so interesting and factual that all the AIs in the world want to use my posts as answers to search queries.


*Mostly this isn't real AI, it's just human style responses to search queries. I did suggest a better description of this technology would be Advanced Response Search Engines, but for some reason it didn't get much traction.
The AI bots came after you left
 
OK - new error message that might help

"PHP 7.2.0 or newer is required. 7.1.9 does not meet this requirement. Please ask your host to upgrade PHP."
 
Layout has somewhat changed now, and I can't post from phone now. Cant write anything from phone, either from the app or web page. Me think russians have taken over!
 
Somehow I'm reading posts that have been posted later today at x... The bots have installed some time travel software on here now.
 
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