Security Check at each access?

[Mcmahst]

I noticed the other day, when I opened a new tab on my iPad, and launched this website, that the site first did a security check of my access; a maliciously bot test, as it said. I passed, but now, each time I reaches the site, I get the same bot test. It this something new or am I in the twilight zone?

 

[Noobz347]

I'm hoping that it's temporary.

A couple nights ago, in the middle of the night, I discovered that the site was acting waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay slow.

Of course, I sent a message to Mike. Come to find out, META was jacking all our data for some reason (I figured Skynet was having an issue with its Mustang). So, we gotta deal with this... for now.

Everybody say, "T-H-A-N-K Y-O-U M-I-S-T-E-R Z-U-CK-ER-B-E-R-G"

 

[Mcmahst]

Yeah, I noticed too the other night I couldn’t even get it to open. I thought maybe it was my DuckDuckGo browser, but then I got the security check and I thought maybe you guys were having a malicious attack so you added that. It is what it is.

 

[91AOD5.0LX]

Yep same here… each logon I get the same…It only takes 3 seconds and then all is good…. Good to know it’s not my device as I originally thought.

 

[Mustang5L5]

I thought it was me too. Was trying to make a post and it was quite painful to do so. Pics wouldn't upload. Cloudfare checks, etc.

Oh BTW I was unable to access Stangnet at all from the Bahamas.

 

[Mcmahst]

As I remember @Noobz347, when I tried to log in that evening, it took a while, then I was at the form summary page. I scrolled down to the bottom of the forums in order to click on the older Mustang forum tab. Before I did that I looked to the right like I do most times to see who was logged in at the time, and noticed there were only three members and 41,700 guest. I said to myself, that’s a lot of guest. But it made sense why the site was running so slow. I thought maybe it was a bunch of people from VMF. It appears to me that site is going through a bit of an undoing with new moderation and less tolerance for having a fun time while you’re on the site. Lol.

 

[Noobz347]

We usually have a few hundred guests and bots at any given time.

41,000 is a bit excessive. lol