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Significant external bot-storm

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This evening may have seen disruption with the site running slowly. That's now fixed. That wasn't just rogue spiders on farms, that was a real bot army with several thousand residential captive machines in parallel. I think I've got them blocked now. The "most users ever online" peaked around 200,000, I've reset it.

"A new feature release 3.3.16 is available. Please read the release announcement to learn about what it has to offer, and how to upgrade." - I might do that next week.
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