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I haven't been able to access the LF site for quite awhile.
Did I miss something tragic?
 
LFF has been down (and sometimes up) for several months now. Their website wasn't built as spam-proof and bot-proof as photrio, thanks to @Sean and the mods here. There is a surge of bots scraping user generated content sites, for AI training data.
 
The weekend works for me; I guess we'll just have to wait until they migrate the forum to a new platform.
They said they were working on it, but didn't give a timeline...
 
Early morning/late afternoon US EST, the site is pretty available.

BUT, during the course of the working day for the USA, it is jammed by bots and scrapers.
 
I typically have problems with LFF earlier in the day, here on the West Coast. Worked fine today. But lately I've suddenly had problems with all kinds of sites, probably due to enhanced security concerns at some level, including my own web provider. "Tragic" can take on whole other level of connotation when the potential for cyber-warfare is a real concern, not to mention all the typical crookery going on day by day. Quite a number of sites have had to restructure before my provider's (AT&T) firewall would let them pass through.
 
The bots are done for the day. The site is back. It's a bit slow because it's been a tiring day. Y'all can relax now...
 
Ive been on it several times this last few weeks and did not notice any cyber ills.

I'll be glad to hear when it's 100% for all its users here and elsewhere.
 
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