Forum has been very slow 2 days now...

[smatovic]

In total there are 4538 users online

and back to slow again.

PM or email HGM.

Perhaps he is on holidays.

PM sent.

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Srdja

[smatovic]

If HGM is on holidays we should be patient, take a lil break from TalkChess....

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Srdja

[ernest]

If HGM is on holidays we should be patient, take a lil break from TalkChess....

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Srdja

As of May 12, HGM IS posting !

[smatovic]

HGM wrote me that he is busy with urgent repairs of his new residence, perhaps after next week he will find some time to look into this, so I can only advice TC members to chill and take a lil TC break.

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Srdja

[towforce]

HGM to be congratulated and thanked: back on the scene, forum running quickly and smoothly. Good show!

[jefk]

[smatovic]

Since 2 days only some hundred users:

In total there are 218 users online

and forum is fast again. Maybe a misconfigured scraper finished scraping ~800K TC posts.

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[ernest]

Anybody knows what happened ?

[PaulieD]

The site is slowing down quite a bit. Seems to be lots of bots accumulating again.

[tmokonen]

This is purely anecdotal evidence, and I don't want to blame the wrong party, but ClaudeBot is crawling every time I notice there's a slowdown.