2nd page, etc. loading slowly (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by Bonus@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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Only noticing on sh.itjust.works recently. If I scroll down to the bottom of page, try to go to the next, it hangs up, sometimes doesn't load, on firefox mobile & desktop browsers.

Just a heads-up.

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I feel like this has to be a bug with Lemmy itself because I have had this bug happen on multiple instances, with multiple clients.

When I reported the issue to my instance admins the first time it happened, they couldn't figure it out and it just went away on its own after a day or so. Then it started happening to World and dbzer0.

[-] Bonus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're probably right, mander.xyz was terrible a week ago. Bringing it up somehow got them to find an issue so I thought it worth mentioning.

[-] Sal@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For mander.xyz it has been bot scrapers. That time that you are mentioning it was scraping via the onion front end that I am hosting for easier access over Tor. Yesterday an army of bots scraping via Alibaba cloud servers made the server unusable for a few minutes. The instance would receive a bunch of requests from the same IP range (47.79.0.0/16), and denying that full IP range fixed the problem.

Some instances implement anti-bot measures. For example, https://sopuli.xyz/ makes use of Anubis. I think that instances behind Cloudfare get some protection too. I am considering using Anubis for mander.xyz, but for now I have just been dealing with this manually as it does not happen too often.