Org Issues and Improvements

**Xantan** · 06-02-2019, 12:39

Just a heads up - for some reason, some threads load slowly.

For example the thread on books about Medieval Europe - https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...urope-and-Rome

**therother** · 06-02-2019, 15:22

Older threads are more likely to contain insecure or unavailable images. This is what causes them to load more slowly.

**therother** · 08-18-2019, 16:22

We are currently receiving a very high volume of internet traffic from a range of China-based IP addresses. This traffic does not seem to have well formed URLs and could well be some sort of DDoS. I've implement a few protections on the server that should help to alleviate the burden.

I'm hopeful that these measures will prove sufficient to return us to reasonable performance: since implementing it the number of concurrent users has since dropped from 4-5k to 300 or so. I'm loathe to implement IP-based address blocking as this is a very crude tool that would likely stop legitimate users viewing the site from China but such action may prove necessary at least in the short term.

**Crandar** · 05-26-2020, 10:50

For some mysterious reason, I have trouble accessing the official screens, videos and artworks and the historical sources threads for Troy. The webpage keeps loading and loading, but without any result, until more than one minute passes. The general discussion also loads slowly, but not as much as the other threads. For the rest of the .org forum, everything loads extremely quickly, almost less than a second.

**therother** · 05-26-2020, 12:59

It's due to images served over http rather than https. I've updated the links and performance seems to have improved.

**Crandar** · 05-26-2020, 22:27

Thanks mate, that's much better!

**Crandar** · 08-25-2020, 16:24

Here I am again! Is it me or is there something wrong with the time-zone settings? Normally I would choose the +2 hours option (Cairo, Bucharest and etc.), but the times produced are actually one hour earlier than expected. So, I have chosen the Baghdad (+3 hours) instead. Probably a bug that only causes a minor inconvenience, that can be fixed very easily, but I thought why not mentioning it, if there's an easy solution.

P.S. If I recall correctly, the system only fails in summer hours, winter works just fine.