For the last two months—especially in the past week—we’ve been hit by waves of automated traffic (“bots”) from several regions, including Brazil, China, the UK, the USA, and Morocco. If the site felt slow, unresponsive or even crashed your browser, that wasn’t you; it was these scripts hammering our pages far more than any human ever would. We’re really sorry for the frustration that caused.
A quick explainer: bots are software programs that visit websites automatically. Some are harmless, but many aren’t. The bad ones scrape content, flood forms, try to create fake accounts, and probe for weaknesses by sending thousands of requests per minute. Others are part of large “botnets” running on hacked devices. All of this can overwhelm servers, distort analytics, and degrade the experience for real people who just want to read an article or complete a task.
We’ve tightened our defenses—blocking abusive networks, adding smarter bot detection, rate-limiting suspicious activity, and tuning our caching—so things should already feel better. You might still see the occasional hiccup while we keep refining, but humans come first here. Thanks for bearing with us, and in the meantime, enjoy the good parts of life, online and off.
