PrimeGrid Fix for Slow Forums

[Alez]

Fact is that the TSBT-site loads a lot slower the last week or so.
Bok's server has periodic trouble the last weeks, Sebastien's server broke yesterday: someone has it in for our hobby.
Revenge of the mad Belgian? GreedCoin, a.ka.a "the Borg" doing bot attacks?

Yes, there has been lots of errors fetching external content mainly I suspect the sigs. I was shocked by the posts on Primegrid that the gridcoin client acts as a DDOS attack by scrapping the stats from all project servers from multiple clients all at the same time. No wonder smaller projects are having server issues. I think more projects will dump them once they become aware. We have had a few strange events to, can't comment on the mad waffler.
I'm going to cache peoples sigs locally so they display whether sites are down or not. I'll make a post for anyone that wants to take up the offer.
Testing the forum to display a users sig on their first post on any topic only. That will help a lot as long as people are happy with the changes.

[Dirk Broer]

It seems getting slower again

[davidbam]

Fine for me I must say

[Alez]

Fine for me I must say

Sebs signature site was very slow loading Mega's signature last night.

There again, my connection speed out here is up and down more often than the undergarments of a working girl with dubious morals