Problem seems fixed, I found the issue in page that Andyhao sent me

The forum issue seems fixed

AHHHH... now, I understand. I should've looked in here years ago.

For me, it's annoying, because I usually do this when I see that I made several comments in a row on one page in the span of a few years, or something like that. So I try deleting one to make the page less cluttered... but then, it stays there, saying "deleted comment". I get that that's not a problem for most people, but still...

I just did a search for 1967-1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible, I was surprised that it only returned Cutlass Supremes. I used the auto fill function on my phone which adds a space. This rendered a search with only Cutlass_ i.e. Cutlass Supremes without the Cutlasses.
Is it something that can be fixed or is it something just to be vary of?

Cutlass_: https://imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&yearFrom=1967&yearTo=1967&makeMatch=- 2&make=Oldsmobile&modelMatch=1&model=Cutlass+&modelInclModel=on&modelInclChassis=- on&mk=&class3=3&origin=&madein=&madefor=&role=

Cutlass: https://imcdb.org/vehicles.php?resultsStyle=asImages&yearFrom=1967&yearTo=1967&makeMatch=- 2&make=Oldsmobile&modelMatch=1&model=Cutlass&modelInclModel=on&modelInclChassis=- on&mk=&class3=3&origin=&madein=&madefor=&role=

I think I have been fooled by similar searches in the past...

I could trim the text, but it was actually kept on purpose: if you want to find all the Cutlass-something and not those with just the base name.
Maybe that behaviour should be kept only for the advanced search, though.

Hmm, it might be a useful feature, indeed...

The last couple of days I've got this banner that covers most of the screen. You have to press the up arrow to remove it but when you go to another section of the forum you get it again, and again, and again...
Highly annoying.
I use Chrome on an Android phone.

Strange, on the forum I get only annoying banners on left & right and at the bottom
Unfortunately I can't do much on the forum, I think these are automatic Google ads.
I'll mention it to the forum owner just in case, but I guess he'll reply me it is the automatic thing from Google...
Someday maybe I should migrate the forum to something hosted on IMCDb's servers, but that is probably not so easy (as many posts of the forum would be worth keeping).

edit: now that think about it, on mobile I don't have ads on the forum because I use Firefox with an ad blocker by default, as usually ads use way to much resources on many sites

Apparently ads are not supposed to do that.
Maybe you can try to report that ad via the "x" button in the lower right corner of the ad, then you have a feedback button.
Or do that behaviour occur with all ads in mobile?

got this message while logging in to the forum this morning
same applies for logout , with "out" just replacing "in"
does the same when you post something/edit too

I thought it was just just me
I'll report the issue

thanks

We seem to be having issues today. Every time I edit an entry, the site seems to freeze up. I couldn't even get to the admin page. Eventually, when everything had timed out, I saw that someone enabled the bot blocker 10 minutes before.

Indeed I see a lot of errors until about 10 min before your message, so probably the time the bot filter was enabled.
So the site was under a heavy load.
One of the bots seemed more active than the others and more than usual.
Did it improve after you posted here or was it still slow for long time?

Did the ads take down the site? I am unable to access the main page.

what do you mean by that?

Echoing other comments about site freezing or behaving incredibly slowly over last few hours. Haven't pressed any magic buttons, but it seems OK in the last half-hour or so.

It also made me realise the site has been working very smoothly and easily for the last few weeks/months. If this is the result of Sir Admin's magic wand behind the scenes, a jolly big well done for all the imcdb hard-working pixies.

Moving to a new server a few months ago and keeping the comment pics on a separate server for sure helped.
Same for the few config tweaks to force it to use more memory for requests caching (maybe a little too much, I should change that again a little), as unused memory is wasted anyway

From time to time there seem to be slowdowns, I assume it is when the site is under load of agressive bots (as they are still there).
Some day I should try to make something to limit them automatically. I lowered the priority of that since problems seemed to be gone, but if they come back I should go back to that idea.

I turned on the bot filter yesterday while I was updating "Tenderness" which was not long before night cub's post above. Obviously, there was no immediate effect, but I was under the impression that over time the site became more responsive.

The site did time out ("...took too long to respond...") for me twice over the course of the day yesterday. Was not much on the site today.

Usually it takes at least a few minutes (5-10)