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      02-28-2025, 07:30 AM   #133
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Im getting slowness as well, I suspect it is the AI bots scalping this site for information to train their LLM's which is why it is so slow. This is happening over on other forums I visit, and their moderators managed to stop it (not sure how). But apparently the other forum I visited was getting 150k hits per hour or something like that.
You might be right. It could be something else. But the robots.txt file here looks like it could use a bit of an update. The showthread.php page is not listed, so it's open, to normal search indexing, but now all these ai bots.

This article shows how to update the file and block a bunch of the ai bots out of the entire site,

https://neil-clarke.com/block-the-bo...-your-website/

https://f30.bimmerpost.com/robots.txt

Jason - Mark - apptest

Looks like massive traffic is substantially slowing Bimmerpost down since two days.

DDOS attack or a swarm of AI bots infesting the site ?
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