The new TAT2.0. And how it works (technical questions)

[ashkor87]

I did find myself blocked on my mobile though.. now I cannot access the site on mobile at all - only laptop

[Fastbackss]

Our fave daily order of play poster (Ti) is no longer able to access.

Sounds like her cookies got erased, she was unable to get back on, tried to re-register and proton mail told her "the site failed it's domain authentication requirements"

Any suggestions.?

[ponchi101]

I will drop the level of security and see if that way she can get in.
Txs for letting me know. Without Ti, this site is meaningless.

[Fastbackss]

Thanks Ponchi - I let Ti know

[ti-amie]

After a frustrating few days and with the help of Ponchi and Fastbackss I can now access TAT2.0 again.

I can't tell you how much I missed you guys!

[dave g]

After a frustrating few days and with the help of Ponchi and Fastbackss I can now access TAT2.0 again.

I can't tell you how much I missed you guys!

We are really glad that you are back!!

[ponchi101]

And BTW
We are currently under attack. I will post some suggestions tomorrow.

[ti-amie]

I didn't post color in the OoP on purpose.

[ti-amie]

Hi guys. I can't post the info for the ATP tournaments next week. Any help would be appreciated.

[ponchi101]

Hi guys. I can't post the info for the ATP tournaments next week. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Ti.
Are you unable to post the info for personal reasons, or is the site misbehaving for you?
I will post something else in the Contest Staff forum.

[ti-amie]

Thanks to Ponchi's help I was able to post the ATP 250's for the coming week. It's an ongoing process but he's been a tremendous help to me.

[ponchi101]

Hello all.
As you can see, I put a message that we were under attach early this week. The attack has continued non stop; the a-hole that is doing this simply is targeting us directly. It is not that I have not taken down the sign because I forgot (you now, me and my drinking...).
Because I moved us to a new system, I have a bit of control over the attack; I can activate different levels of security, going from BASICALLY NONE (think promiscuity with no protection) all the way to I AM UNDER ATTACK (you are locked inside your home with dragons at every door). Still, this a-hole is so focused that even when I drop from UNDER ATTACK to a slightly more basic HIGH (locked at home with rookie dragons at the gates) the count of bots starts mounting rapidly, and reaching around 1500. I have to then increase the dragons again.
Some may have noticed that under the UNDER ATTACK mode, posting has become more problematic; every once in a while you will get a dreaded "forbidden" message. This has made it hard on the other admins and mods in the forum, especially Ti (who posts all the OoP and relevant info).
The attack has been so severe that it is not only us; although our attack is targeted to us, even the phpBB.com site has been targeted. Even they are targeted by about 600 guests, but they are a huge site, so many of those are real.
Somebody in that forum has developed an extension that helps with the bots, and I will be installing it; however, even this extension, because it is recent, may have some issues. I will not go technical (as if I knew so much), but because the extension is to stop bots, and stop them early, when implemented it may stop you at your login (you know, if it were a Rom-Com it would be like "You LOST me at hello"). And it will even stop ME. So, after implementing it I would need to be sure that I can disable that extension if it blocks me, which would mean it would be blocking everybody.
I will not enable this extension during the weekend; we have NFL Challenge and other things that need to be posted and If we are blocked, I am not sure if I will be able to recover the site (I will make a backup before I do all this).
In short, the attack remains, he is much better than I am at this, and I will see if I can take care of it sometime next week.

[ponchi101]

I will have to change the cookie of the site, because all I have done will not work if the attacker has a session open and continues to attack from there.
Which means everybody will be logged out, as I will also clear the cache of all sessions. I will do that later on Sunday Nov 2.
Again, sorry.

[Oploskoffie]

The one person who needn't apologize for anything while this is going on is you, ponchi. Many thanks for the time and effort you're putting in to keeping this place online.

[texasniteowl]

The one person who needn't apologize for anything while this is going on is you, ponchi. Many thanks for the time and effort you're putting in to keeping this place online.

Ditto. I mean I'm sure I can't even imagine the work you are having to put into this. Thank you for all you are doing ponchi.