Does the accessibility of this website depend on certain circumstances?

[noname223]

I often can check this forum with no problem. Some members said they barely can access this forum anymore. It might depend in which time zone you live.

But there might be a different factor. I get These cloudfare checks Way more often when I use a VPN. And isn't this website (for example in the UK?) often only accessible with VPN? I am not sure I Don't live there. But isn't the regulation that New members from UK cannot create New Accounts. Please correct me when I am wrong I am curious.

 

[SVEN]

I'm in the UK and log on in the usual way; having originally joined in April 2023.

 

[GlassMoon]

But there might be a different factor. I get These cloudfare checks Way more often when I use a VPN.

I guess CloudFlare uses some heuristics to determine how likely it is that you are a threat, i.e. part of a DDOS attack. IPs used by VPNs are probably shared by more users and therefore more frequently abused, hence the increase in the frequency of checks. Also, when they detect a DDOS attack, they probably increase the frequency of checks for everyone to be on the safe side.

It might depend in which time zone you live.

I'd guess it depends more on the IP address range which you are in rather than the timezone.

 

[noname223]

I guess CloudFlare uses some heuristics to determine how likely it is that you are a threat, i.e. part of a DDOS attack. IPs used by VPNs are probably shared by more users and therefore more frequently abused, hence the increase in the frequency of checks. Also, when they detect a DDOS attack, they probably increase the frequency of checks for everyone to be on the safe side.


I'd guess it depends more on the IP address range which you are in rather than the timezone.

With time zone I mean something else. The DDOS attacks are certainly coordinated to different time points for example to times where there is the most traffic on this website. I live in Germany if most of the DDOS attacks happen when I sleep I will barely notice them.

 

[iceteariver]

I'm from the UK and I've never used a VPN to access the forum and there weren't any restrictions on me opening my account when I signed up (although I can't remember whether ofcom started increasingly targeting this forum before or after I made my account)

 

[Pluto]

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I've been getting those cloudflare checks even when logged-on to the site (I stay logged-on). In the morning after I turn my phone back on and then click on the still-open tab of SaSu in my browser, I get a cloudflare test to see if I'm human, even though I'm still logged-on to the site.