@Sambit_Mishra I’am blind if you can describe I can try to help.
Is anyone else having CoGDemos throw HTTPS/Server Not Found errors, or is it on my end?
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I think it must be on your end. I am able to get to the site without any issue.
You’re getting that on cogdemos.ink? I just checked the code and there’s nothing that even produces that error. That’s… weird. I may need some more info to figure this one out, since nothing on cogdemos (that I can find) even mentions… that word.
Funnily enough, when I just tried to post WA, it gave me an error that I can’t post that word, lol.
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So it seems. My VPN refuses to connect to the site without actually blocking it for some reason so I’m just getting a connection-issue-error. Urgh.
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Possibly related - I do tend to get HTTPS errors when it’s actually more a timeout.
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getting the same gateway timeout. That was fixed pretty quick, back to playing one of my favorite demos.
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Server is under attack. Trying to take care of it.
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hackers I’m guessing?
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Attempted, yes. They can’t get in, so they just keep hammering the shit out of it.
Try it now, people. Hopefully, this blocked them. If anyone who should be able to reach it is getting blocked, let me know.
One other thing I noticed (I have got to get back to work, lol)… one game on the page is having a recursion error: pendragon: sword of no names. There’s either something wrong with the code, a missing image, or the game code has hit something that scene.js can’t handle. If anyone knows the author, please pass it along.
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Spoke too soon. Someone is hammering favorites, as well as constantly hitting random games. Tried blocking scripts, but can only do so much without breaking the games.
For now, I’m going to disable adding to favorites until I can get these bastards out of my damned site. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Note: Disabling favorites has also affected the images showing on the main page because the code has everything tied together (that needs to be fixed). Until I enable favorites again, the images will be broken. I will try to work on this tonight when I’m done with work.
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Might be bots, unless you have heavy-duty protections in place there.
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I have a bunch of bots blocked. But they’re still hitting me hard. From multiple IPs. One is in LA. I am blocking it for now.
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So a mix of a coordinated bot attack and hacking…. people really don’t have anything better to do than mess with things other people enjoy. Hope things calm down so you can get well deserved relaxation after this.
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I’m just wondering if it’s the AI bots, because from what I’ve read (from site admins that suffer from it and are trying to make it stop) they don’t even identify themselves as bots, but they do hit from a huge bunch of different IPs and indiscriminately DDoS everything.
Not saying it can’t be hackers, but it could also just be regular AI botnet activity.
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i’m getting a 500 server error…are the bots still going at it 
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Yeah, I know. It’s driving me nuts. And I had all of two hours of sleep last night, so my brain is not at full capacity.
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I was wondering what was going on, I thought it was me. Well thank you so much @EvilChani for helping defend the site and keeping this thing that we all love from being attacked by losers. I appreciate you and the hard work you’re doing. I’ll be patient and grateful until this passes. Hopefully all their servers catch fire. And their crotches too. Figuratively lol. I don’t mean that literally. Not wishing harm on anyone lol! Even these jerks lol
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Someone needs to make an image of @EvilChani fighting off bots and hackers with a metal bat cuz it’s basically what they are doing atm. Thanks as always for your sacrifice Chani but don’t forget to take some time to rest.
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