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Here's the official take on that:
The IP address you came from recently had bad activity online, so CloudFlare will present a challenge before you can access the website. Here's what you can do to solve the problem:
1. Passing the captcha will help reduce the threat score associated with the IP address. If no bad activity is seen from the IP address after a two-week period, then the challenge behavior will stop against that IP address.
Of course, sharing your IP with anyone else is problematic as you never know what the other user(s) are doing. If they aren't doing anything malicious, it's only a temporary annoyance. If they are, I can't whitelist your IP for obvious reasons either. Not that I have much trust in CF's IP marking skills at this point, but as a rule I wouldn't want to whitelist IPs that could potentially be abusive.
I heartily agree..Dear site developers:
CloudFlare is ass. Thank you.
Maybe try praying.It's really hard to get past the DDOS protection on Opera Turbo on mobile, the screen appears when it does not on other mobile browsers, and when it does it just gets stuck on there.
Use tapatalk. Then pray.It's really hard to get past the DDOS protection on Opera Turbo on mobile, the screen appears when it does not on other mobile browsers, and when it does it just gets stuck on there.
The point of using Opera Mini is to save mobile bandwith.
It saves about a third of bandwidth or more and in theory makes things load faster for everyone by serving frequently accessed content from a server geographically nearest to them. It also stops a boatload of malicious traffic at the source, since it keeps track of malicious users across the entire CF network and extends protection from them to all the sites using CF.
The 5-second delay only happens when I manually move the site into the DDoS protection mode, though. I've had it on for about half an hour today to bring the load down. It hasn't been on for at least 10 days prior to this. And since you only get that check once every 3 hours (if I even have it on for longer than that, which I usually don't), it's really not worth any hoopla at this point. It's certainly a way better alternative to temporarily shutting down the forums here.
Okay I just have to vent a little here.
A few years ago every website was fine. Sure, sometimes they'd time out or something but whatever.
Now half the websites I frequent show me some retarded Cloudflare error-message half the time I try to connect to them or delay me by five seconds - if they work at all without having to F5 the page a bunch of times. What's the benefit of this to us again?
Since most of rpg codex content is dynamic and uncacheable , theory, indeed.... and in theory makes things load faster for everyone...