The last few days, whenever I go “back” from reading a thread, the forum page takes a while to load, lands on a section several days back, then eventually loads the correct view. The whole process takes about 5-10 seconds, where it used to be almost instantaneous.
The reason I bring this up, rather than chalk it up to my slow pc, is that another forum I follow had an issue very recently where (non-technical paraphrasing, here) badly-behaved “bots” were invading the forum and “crawling” the servers (maybe something to do with AI data gathering?). They had to turn off guest access temporarily to do something to fix/prevent it. Could it be something similar going on here? Or is it, indeed, just a “me” problem?
