Sputter-pop-pop-sputter-pop-BANG!

What will happen is they will band-aid it just to get it moving rather than write good code.

I sent a note and received a very fast email reply from PP Tech Director Jay B. and they’re working to pinpoint the snafu.
So they’re aware and monitoring.
Seems to be working fine today.
Many thanks and my iphone battery can get a break !

It does seem to be working well. I too got an email from Jay Battikha saying they got it up midnight last. Nice to get a personal email from him.

Appreciate the feedback and letting everyone know. In general, when there is an issue and like 50 people are emailing the tech crew about it, it's typically best to just ignore all of the emails and actually focus on the issue. I know from past experience - I never answered my phone when I was working on a "website down" issue - I just typically texted back "working on it."

With the advent of AI, there are a lot more "bots" scrolling through and trying to "steal" / "scrape" content to train the AI bots. That puts a tremendous strain on the servers, particularly if the bots are "rude" or "obnoxious" and just hammer the server constantly.

Thanks,

Wayne

Wayne, how do the bots steal/ scrape the website for data? Are thousands of computers trying to read what’s on the website?

Is there a cliff note explanation version?

Thanks

They have a program that goes through and reads every thread and then parses the information out of it. Some of these "bots" can send 10-200 requests per second, which overloads the servers. They are not designed or spec'ed out to accommodate that type of load.

-Wayne