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I just want to thank and congratulate whoever is responsible for this:

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Unable to connect to SQL server. TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

ewnay answersyay

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Yup. I got that too a few minutes ago. Pure genius.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 3 April 2003 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Seconded, tis wonderful :)

I mean thirded.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 April 2003 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

You see how I bothered to change that message but not fix the problem that causes it?

(It was Dan's idea, btw)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 3 April 2003 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE! could be the new 'delete ilx please'.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I kiss you Graham. You poxy fule.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha Graham, I think you should leave the problem now that we've got an error message that everyone loves.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't get it!!! Waaaahhhhh! I wanna break ILX now so I can be called a POXY FULE!!!

― kate, Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that a threat, kate? Oh no! Delete the internet before it's too late!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Graham, did you get my card yet? The Winnipeg one.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

that poxy crap sux

― GrapeSoda, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

it happens every day again now

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It happens every freaking MINUTE.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone talked to Andrew directly about it? I keep meaning to.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatever happened to Graham?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

You made him cry with your poxy fule hatin' ways

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I spoke to Andrew about this yesterday. He said he's tried disabling a referrals log that was going nuts, and after he did that things really did seem to speed up significantly. But by late afternoon it was sluggish again so I dont know... I dont think Andrew looks at ILX much anymore so it may be prudent for one of the other guys with access to the SQL to be looking at this cuz obviously something's up.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

What DID happen to Graham?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i think that graham took a hint

― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

he got mad!

― mandee, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I really felt bad for Graham yesterday. :(

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

WHY?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you all kidnapped him?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham finally got our sympathy by....... not asking for it! (shockah)

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe the recent surge of random googlers has something to do with it. i suggest deleting any mention of j0hn C3na from ilx.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Or just changing the name of "I love horses" to "I love J0hn C3na and hair dye. I also would like someone to p1mp my ride."

― winterland, Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I read that above as "plump my ride". Much more interesting that way, I think...

― DMTina (DMTina), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"pimp my cushion"

― winterland, Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"pimp my mom"

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

are random googlers really common and a problem?

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

They seem more so lately than Ive noticed in the past.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, random googlers are terribly common. They have no class whatsoever.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Dear Sirs, I noted with interest that you and your fine compatriots are offering advice on how to get one ride pimped, if you'll excuse the vernacular. Any further information would be appreciated, thanking you in advance.

― randomgoogler, Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Curses! I hate it when I'm wrong!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't like being called a poxy fule.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)

HSA gets really confused when I start shouting DON'T POXY FOOL ME!!! at the computer.

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like it that I was (in a way) the original poxy fule.

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean FULE. Duh. I am a FULE for that.

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's where the term originated in this context if anyone cares.

― Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ah so it is Mr. Perry who we have to thank for this phrase.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

re graham: you could ask him he's on IM: dtcdthingy (i think is his nickname on IM)

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I dont think Andrew looks at ILX much anymore so it may be prudent for one of the other guys with access to the SQL to be looking at this cuz obviously something's up.

I do look at ILX quite a bit, and give it a bit of a kick now and then to fix things up, but I just don't have time to have an involved look at why it's fucking up the way it is. Fortunately, Alan has agreed to have another look at the code in the next couple of weeks or so, so we should start to see a solution at some stage.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Andrew, what else does cheese do?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 1 April 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I've forgotten what TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE orginally said now.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 April 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm hoping that it was turn back you silly nincompoop.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 1 April 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess that's better than "Here's $5. Go get yerself a blumpkin while the server is busy"

― Kingfish Hypercolor (Kingfish), Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Andrew, what else does cheese do?

Not much, why?

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Just wondering if it did anything else.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 1 April 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It's pretty much dedicated to MySQL.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 1 April 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, thats all of it I get to see.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 2 April 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I've just been given a Dual Pentium 3 motherboard by work. Being thrown out because it was too old. Does The ILX brain want it?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 2 April 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

I've just been 'poxy fuled' for ages! :-(

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bonjourfineart.com/Images/What%20Fools%20These%20Mortals%20Be.jpg

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

God's getting us back for wondering about who made him.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

B-b-but I didn't wonder!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

So, why did we get Poxy Fuled for so long today? Approx. 11am to 7pm for me. I even sent a "WTF" to the e-mail link.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

shit, nevermind. just saw this.
Sorry about the outage folks.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/colonpipe/poxy.jpg

― :| (....), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

I've sort of missed it.

― Matt DC, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

the screen should be programmed to randomly kick it

― ken c, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

kick in

― ken c, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/poxy_fule.gif

― Edward III, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

can we kick it? o yes we can

― Edward III, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

I'm feeling nostalgic.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 24 May 2008 08:00 (eighteen years ago)

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Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in /home/ilx/pubhtml/boardfunctions.php on secret board 77
Problem loading page:
Unable to connect to SQL server. TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE.

― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 25 May 2008 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

: D : D

― The Reverend, Sunday, 25 May 2008 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

I'm feeling nostalgic.

― 14 karat gold steen computer wizard (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 21 March 2009 01:54 (seventeen years ago)

: D : D

― StanM, Saturday, 21 March 2009 01:56 (seventeen years ago)

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Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in /home/ilx/pubhtml/boardfunctions.php on secret board 77
Problem loading page:
Unable to connect to SQL server. TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE.

― leigh exodus (country matters), Saturday, 21 March 2009 01:57 (seventeen years ago)

:D :D

― 14 karat gold steen computer wizard (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 21 March 2009 02:37 (seventeen years ago)

I feel sorry for those too ilx-young to have experienced the poxy fule era.

― reverend bout to change my name to rev peso (The Reverend), Saturday, 21 March 2009 09:27 (seventeen years ago)

halcyon days

― Jarlrmai, Saturday, 21 March 2009 12:27 (seventeen years ago)

i was totally going to name my never-to-be-released album this <3 <3 <3

― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm287/hoimi/pour-one-out.jpg

― crüt, Monday, 28 January 2013 22:08 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21196793

― conrad, Monday, 28 January 2013 23:00 (thirteen years ago)

four years pass...

turn back you poxy fule

― sleepingbag, Friday, 24 March 2017 15:57 (nine years ago)

I feel sorry for those too ilx-young to have experienced the poxy fule era.

― reverend bout to change my name to rev peso (The Reverend)

― sleeve, Friday, 24 March 2017 16:09 (nine years ago)

i saw this yesterday!!! i don't think i had for many years. it made me happy despite the site being cockfarmingly fuxored chiz chiz

― r|t|c, Friday, 24 March 2017 16:25 (nine years ago)

everything old

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 24 March 2017 17:17 (nine years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/poxy_fule.gif

― Edward III, Friday, November 30, 2007 10:31 AM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― sleepingbag, Sunday, 26 March 2017 21:22 (nine years ago)

eight months pass...

OMG I just got this on mobile!

― sleeve, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 19:56 (eight years ago)

five years pass...

getting a poxy fule error when trying to post to hi fi thread

― koogs, Monday, 18 September 2023 08:11 (two years ago)

(the image i was trying to link to has (dollar)_86 in it, which i guess confuses regexp things)

― koogs, Monday, 18 September 2023 08:14 (two years ago)

five months pass...

https://fastsdxl.ai/share/dz8gvlyi4q6l

― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 22:55 (two years ago)

Adding the exclamation mark makes a big difference!

https://fastsdxl.ai/share/69sv5sd2n03u

― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 22:56 (two years ago)

eleven months pass...

Getting alot of this today.

― Okay, heteros are cutting edge this year, too. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 February 2025 22:55 (one year ago)

ya me too, for a few hours now

― kinder, Monday, 17 February 2025 22:57 (one year ago)

Yes, I'm trying to post a startling insight to an old thread and I'm being poxied.

― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Monday, 17 February 2025 23:05 (one year ago)

First time today in, what, 10-15 years?

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 17 February 2025 23:40 (one year ago)

"It's the 'aughts, Colin!"

― Okay, heteros are cutting edge this year, too. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 February 2025 23:58 (one year ago)

still ongoing

― Brad C., Tuesday, 18 February 2025 00:24 (one year ago)

What is going on with our message board

― calstars, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 00:25 (one year ago)

kingfish is here? Been a minute

― calstars, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 00:26 (one year ago)

Still happening.

― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 09:21 (one year ago)

Same - slow access or no access since last night, web and zing

― woof, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 09:27 (one year ago)

So...this is how it ends...

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 10:04 (one year ago)

feels alright now

― Ste, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 11:56 (one year ago)

ok maybe not

― Ste, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 11:59 (one year ago)

It's all good now

― imago, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 13:43 (one year ago)

still coming up for me at least half of the time

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 14:00 (one year ago)

Yeah, not all good.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 14:01 (one year ago)

Aye been slow as hell since Sunday lunchtime and poxy fuled about 70% of the time since yesterday afternoon.

― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 14:01 (one year ago)

very slow and still getting poxy fuled

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 14:45 (one year ago)

still slow and not always coming up. Hard to switch from one thread to another and from ilm to ile

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 15:29 (one year ago)

Haven't yet been poxy fuled on the poxy fule thread tho

― who are the spanish nickelback (Matt #2), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 15:31 (one year ago)

just got poxy fuled on the poxy fule thread

― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 15:35 (one year ago)

i absolutely love how devoted ppl are to using this site even when it's hella broken

― ivy., Tuesday, 18 February 2025 15:36 (one year ago)

You guys have to stop making fun of Trump! It's obviously Elon's Hacker Brigade doing this. (Not to be confused with the 90s Hip-House act that I used to dance for when I was living in Düsseldorf, Elke's Jacker Brigade. We were a hit on the midnight strudel circuit.)

― scott seward, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 15:40 (one year ago)

I have wondered, can these assholes just decide to, you know, shut off the internet?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 16:22 (one year ago)

I had my six clicks + of:

- Fast loading of threads
- no poxy fuling

Think its back!

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 16:23 (one year ago)

Remember a decade or so ago this site just disappeared for days? weeks? I don't remember, but it came back.

Everyone chill ... it's going to be OK. I have faith.

― alpine static, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 16:55 (one year ago)

working great now! thanks to the tech crew

― fluffy tufts university (f. hazel), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 16:58 (one year ago)

Mine seems to be fine now too

― nxd, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 17:09 (one year ago)

Mine is laggy.

― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 17:25 (one year ago)

Still very slow, though fewer poxy fules. The hammering from the outside world hasn't entirely abated, I think.

― I think we're all Bezos on this bus (WmC), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 17:27 (one year ago)

Mine was good, but poxy fuled a few times again now.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 17:27 (one year ago)

i get a lot of Java Lang & Null Pointer which is NOT some obscure musical act that ilm is big on. I googled it.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 17:39 (one year ago)

When love is calling you
Turn back you poxy fule

― Brad C., Tuesday, 18 February 2025 17:44 (one year ago)

It's still glitchy as hell for me. Is it definitely AI crawlers bashing the server, do we know? And if so, is there anything that can be done about it?

― emil.y, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 17:49 (one year ago)

these numbers seem really high right now

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/most-read-threads.jsp

― Brad C., Tuesday, 18 February 2025 18:05 (one year ago)

Damn, not even one of those is mine (thought for sure the Black Vinyl Shoes poll would be in there).

― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 18:07 (one year ago)

The Shoes are eternal but this table "shows the most read questions in the past five minutes."

― Brad C., Tuesday, 18 February 2025 18:20 (one year ago)

DOGE are leaving no stone unturned here.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 20:12 (one year ago)

Yup, just got my termination letter from ilxor. Nice knowin' you folks. Low quality poster purge in on.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 20:23 (one year ago)

I think I'm taking the buyout. Anyone else?

― alpine static, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 20:29 (one year ago)

If it's AI crawlers then ILX is about to save the world from the AI-pocalypse.

― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 20:42 (one year ago)

won't be called a poxy fule
by some fuckin' AI tool
AMANDA

― henry s, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 21:33 (one year ago)

The night is like a lovely tune, turn back you poxy fule!
How white the ever distant moon, turn back you poxy fule!

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 21:45 (one year ago)

I'm all poxy fuled
I'm so lost without you
I know you were right
To call me a poxy fule

― Leprecan't even (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 21:55 (one year ago)

Wait no

I believe in miracles
Turn around
You poxy fule

― Leprecan't even (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 22:10 (one year ago)

turn of the century message board is showing its age.. time to reboot the server

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 22:47 (one year ago)

If it's corruptions creeping into lookup tables or some such problem, then transferring ilx data and operations to a new server asap seems like a good thought.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 23:22 (one year ago)

or yknow....

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 February 2025 23:42 (one year ago)

something fishy going on around here.....

― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 00:09 (one year ago)

Has the problem been identified? Is there a solution any of us can help with?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 00:09 (one year ago)

because the internet

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 00:10 (one year ago)

lads will ye detail, collate and prioritise the issues before sending them in please

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 00:18 (one year ago)

I have been trying to complain about yesterday's wordle is this crashing the board

― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 00:22 (one year ago)

five good jokes lost forever

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 06:45 (one year ago)

Sorry about the mess, I’m in the middle of a work trip and have limited time to diagnose.At first glance it does seem to be AI crawlers but I’ll take a deeper look when I can. Everything is backed up so there’s no long term risk, but it might be bumpy for a bit until I can fix it properly.

― stet, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 07:10 (one year ago)

There was a time where it seemed like every vacation I took I’d somehow end up on the server fixing stuff from the airport. This time it is a work trip but same deal.

― stet, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 07:11 (one year ago)

We should be like meta filter and set up a committee to organise a committee to draft the terms of reference for a working group to reboot the server

― stet, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 07:11 (one year ago)

Also: current server uptime is 987 days

― stet, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 07:12 (one year ago)

Don't apologize. We're all still having fun on the internet.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 09:29 (one year ago)

Ready to Avengers Endgame this shit in an epic final battle against the AI scrollers.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 10:01 (one year ago)

I for one welcome our new poxy sloplords

― the babality of evil (wins), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 10:04 (one year ago)

these numbers seem really high right now

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/most-read-threads.jsp

― Brad C., Tuesday, 18 February 2025 bookmarkflaglink

rolling "Is This Racist?" thread 8013 3 2 8008

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 10:05 (one year ago)

8008 and threadbreak

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 10:06 (one year ago)

thank you stet!!!

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 11:21 (one year ago)

Thanks, stet!

― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 11:27 (one year ago)

rolling "Is This Racist?" thread 8013 3 2 8008

Once AI can tell us what's racist it's game over for ILX

― Alba, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 12:12 (one year ago)

Thank ya stet

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 February 2025 12:32 (one year ago)

as always, thanks and praise to the technical stet we all just take for granted now

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 16:14 (one year ago)

Should we be concerned that the 2 most-hit/scraped threads are the racism one and the Musk one, all things considered?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 21:36 (one year ago)

Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread 16849 0 7 16842
Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you... 15023 1 4 15018
basketblolz 11697 0 18 11679
Silicon Valley Techno-Utopianism 11274 0 8 11266
Democratic (Party) Direction 9106 0 23 9083
Filmforum 8038 0 11 8027
your terrible ideas 7663 1 8 7654
the most important election of your lifetime: 2012 american general election thread 6301 0 2 6299
2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING 6098 0 3 6095

can we IP block these bots?

― c u (crüt), Thursday, 20 February 2025 16:47 (one year ago)

I'm getting poxy fuled again this morning, though far less frequently than the other day.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 February 2025 16:56 (one year ago)

xp yeah that's kind of alarming

the idea of someone purposely scraping the terrible ideas thread for non-terrible ideas is kinda funny tho. :-(

― brimstead, Thursday, 20 February 2025 16:57 (one year ago)

oof, still lumpy at times

makes you appreciate how well it works normally

― koogs, Thursday, 20 February 2025 20:07 (one year ago)

yeah, it's getting bad again

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 February 2025 20:26 (one year ago)

Yeah, it's really rough today.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 February 2025 20:54 (one year ago)

Not just me then--every day, stretches of wonkiness.

― clemenza, Friday, 21 February 2025 03:23 (one year ago)

It's not just you. Me too.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 21 February 2025 03:24 (one year ago)

Even of ita still happening, its a lot better than earlier in the week...

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 February 2025 10:10 (one year ago)

Thanks Obama

― Leprecan't even (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 February 2025 10:16 (one year ago)

though the "most read thread" counts are still high, the site is zipping along for me right now - so maybe not related?

― c u (crüt), Friday, 21 February 2025 16:35 (one year ago)

We all left for Discord; you didn't get the memo?

― emotional support puffin (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 February 2025 16:52 (one year ago)

Turn back you poxy fule: the five most annoying words to me this week that aren't "Secretary of State Marco Rubio."

― cryptosicko, Friday, 21 February 2025 16:52 (one year ago)

Okay can we never ever do the stupid “Thanks Obama” joke again

― my favorite herbs are fennel and Drake (DJP), Friday, 21 February 2025 22:13 (one year ago)

I have blocked the worst offenders - crawlers using Alibaba Cloud and something called dataforseo.com. Load is dropping way down on the box now, so it should improve quickly. I'll keep an eye on things but do post here if you see errors again pls

― stet, Monday, 24 February 2025 07:01 (one year ago)

Thank you stet!

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 24 February 2025 10:40 (one year ago)

Hear hear!

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 February 2025 11:09 (one year ago)

Yeah thirded

― Zurich is Starmed (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 February 2025 11:13 (one year ago)

Thank you

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 February 2025 11:15 (one year ago)

Good work.

― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Monday, 24 February 2025 11:22 (one year ago)

nice work stet! thanks again.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 February 2025 12:39 (one year ago)

Adding to the chorus l: Thank you!

― Slayer University (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 24 February 2025 12:41 (one year ago)

Thanks!!! Sometimes this feels like the only corner of the internet that’s not a total shit show.

― Cow_Art, Monday, 24 February 2025 14:48 (one year ago)

Thanks stet! Appreciate your efforts!

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 February 2025 14:49 (one year ago)

grazie stet

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Monday, 24 February 2025 14:58 (one year ago)

Dumb question here: how does ILX work? Where is the site hosted? Does it cost money to maintain? Are there fundraisers I have not noticed for 20 years?

― Cow_Art, Monday, 24 February 2025 15:06 (one year ago)

And is there a tip jar, basically

― at your swervice (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 24 February 2025 15:25 (one year ago)

Thanks, stet!

― I think we're all Bezos on this bus (WmC), Monday, 24 February 2025 15:36 (one year ago)

You're the best!

― emil.y, Monday, 24 February 2025 16:21 (one year ago)

xps There were fundraisers in the past.

― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 24 February 2025 16:37 (one year ago)

iirc They usually passed by really quickly as the goal would be reached within a day. But afaik there hasn't been one in a long time now.

― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 24 February 2025 16:40 (one year ago)

It's hosted in the UK in a place that gave me a good long-term deal. Because it's a pretty old-school setup (one big server does it all) it's cheaper than comparable modern multi-service multi-server setups so I just pay for it myself. If a big expense were to arise I'd ask for support again. And I should check what all this bot hammering is doing to our bandwidth bill ...

― stet, Monday, 24 February 2025 20:41 (one year ago)

don't hesitate to ask for financial support. we're all very willing to give it.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 24 February 2025 20:49 (one year ago)

Indeed.

― Cow_Art, Monday, 24 February 2025 21:01 (one year ago)

― budo jeru, Monday, 24 February 2025 21:05 (one year ago)

cheers stet!!

― c u (crüt), Monday, 24 February 2025 21:41 (one year ago)

don't hesitate to ask for financial support. we're all very willing to give it.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless),

aimless otm.

― mark e, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 10:18 (one year ago)

yes

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 25 February 2025 10:32 (one year ago)

Yep, just holler if you need to put money in the meter.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 25 February 2025 10:41 (one year ago)

For real. I get more value out of this place than many things I pay good money for, and I've always arrived to the donation threads to find them already successfully accomplished. It's very generous of you to run it out of pocket, stet, whatever that looks like, but you certainly don't have to do so!

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 11:37 (one year ago)

For ILX I would bust-ah the jukebox!

― henry s, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 13:55 (one year ago)

great thanks im crying now

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 February 2025 13:57 (one year ago)

chiming in to say that i really appreciate you keeping this place going stet... it's very rare for places like this to exist these days, in part perhaps like problems like the one you've just been dealing with. it means a lot to me that this place continues to exist.

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 25 February 2025 16:55 (one year ago)

same!

― kinder, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 21:25 (one year ago)

❤️

― stet, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 22:07 (one year ago)

Stet roolz.

One thing I love about ILE is that you can pick up a thread last posted to in 2001 and carry on the conversation like a quarter century means nothing. Where else can you do that?

― Alba, Wednesday, 26 February 2025 22:18 (one year ago)

old folks home

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 February 2025 22:26 (one year ago)

Ha ha

― Alba, Wednesday, 26 February 2025 22:26 (one year ago)

Lol @ the ILX old folks home. "I still haven't forgiven you for what you said about LCD Soundsystem back in aught-three."

"Whatever, man. They're serving lime Jell-O."

"FP'd you for that. Where's my walker?"

― at your swervice (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 26 February 2025 22:49 (one year ago)

green was robbed on the jello poll!

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 26 February 2025 22:52 (one year ago)

Sonned in an ear trumpet beef

― at your swervice (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 February 2025 03:04 (one year ago)

The fact that necroposting isn't discouraged here is one of this place's greatest strengths.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 27 February 2025 04:13 (one year ago)

the last time i saw geeta ilx came up and she grinned and said "good old ilx" which was nice but also, sick burn

― rainbow calx (lukas), Thursday, 27 February 2025 04:25 (one year ago)

I still have friends/enemies from long-deceased forums I played on circa 2000; indeed I married one of them.*

But unlike ilx there isn't a comparable space where one can suddenly say "...and ANOTHER thing!" about a disagreement that dates from the Clinton administration.

(* = we already knew each other in meatspace, but the point stands.)

― at your swervice (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 27 February 2025 11:33 (one year ago)

I had forgotten the word "meatspace" ever existed! It's a relic of Al Gore's information superhighway era.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 27 February 2025 19:15 (one year ago)

Memorialized in this moving ballad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRr_FWuINMs

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 27 February 2025 19:37 (one year ago)

I still have several non-ILX friends who refer to the actor as "Ornaldo Bloomps".

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 28 February 2025 01:05 (one year ago)

Not good.

― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 March 2025 16:56 (one year ago)

wasn't loading here, but seems ok now
ditto to chipping in for any running costs x

― nxd, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 16:57 (one year ago)

Should there be an ilxor bsky account, or some way to get a service down (or any other) update if the site is down, for maintenance or otherwise?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 17:13 (one year ago)

there's a FB page, but I'd love a bsky option

― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 17:16 (one year ago)

There's a Facebook page? Things you were shockingly old when you learned.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 17:21 (one year ago)

Didn't there used to be https://status.ilxor.com/ or a couple of other shadow sites, just pilot lights until the stove gets turned on?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 17:28 (one year ago)

xp well it's an "ILXors are now playing" type page but yeah

― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 17:29 (one year ago)

Discogs appears to be down this morning too.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 5 March 2025 17:36 (one year ago)

ILX FB page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/179261925499848

― I think we're all Bezos on this bus (WmC), Wednesday, 5 March 2025 17:46 (one year ago)

Phew!

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 17:50 (one year ago)

i think alibaba might be back with another 40 thieves

― koogs, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 21:48 (one year ago)

All UKPOl and UK footy threads, wtf?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 5 March 2025 21:55 (one year ago)

things are bad when you get a TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE error on the TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE thread

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 March 2025 22:03 (one year ago)

these LLM scrapers are getting crazy out of hand

― stet, Thursday, 6 March 2025 00:43 (one year ago)

thank you, stet

― sleeve, Thursday, 6 March 2025 01:07 (one year ago)

when you get a TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE error on the TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE thread

FuleCeption

― at your swervice (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 6 March 2025 01:41 (one year ago)

these LLM scrapers are getting crazy out of hand

Is there a way to make the site temporarily password-protected to give you more time on this & keeping it accessible to current registered users?

― triste et cassé (gyac), Thursday, 6 March 2025 02:17 (one year ago)

I’m going to make a different backup address that should stay accessible in case of outage, yes

― stet, Thursday, 6 March 2025 05:16 (one year ago)

might be worth taking the entire site reg-to-view at this point. the vibrant influx of new voices and valuable thoughts is probably not outweighing the operational and societal downsides rn.

― Nancy Makes Posts (sic), Thursday, 6 March 2025 05:49 (one year ago)

wondering if LLM crawlers have been optimized to find sites that are essentially giant text repositories...

― 龜, Thursday, 6 March 2025 14:35 (one year ago)

optimised to seek out the OTM

― mark s, Thursday, 6 March 2025 14:45 (one year ago)

I hope they find early N-Phay haxxorspeak and it breaks them.

― Tim, Thursday, 6 March 2025 14:54 (one year ago)

when |_337 really meant |_337

― mark s, Thursday, 6 March 2025 15:01 (one year ago)

Ah yes the vibrant influx of new voices

So grateful for the many new perspectives we are getting

― at your swervice (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 6 March 2025 16:23 (one year ago)

HI DERE

― Who Are the Mystery URLs? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 March 2025 17:04 (one year ago)

ChatGPT now ending all responses with "that's how i break it down to an extent"

― jaymc, Thursday, 6 March 2025 18:02 (one year ago)

I can't turn your prompt into a heart.

― I think we're all Bezos on this bus (WmC), Thursday, 6 March 2025 18:12 (one year ago)

let's just hope nobody asks it how to wash a hat

― Zurich is Starmed (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 March 2025 18:13 (one year ago)

ChatGPT needs to show its ilx chops by promoting the deep cuts, like "vital skull custard" or "cat gazebo".

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 6 March 2025 18:44 (one year ago)

How is babby formed

― at your swervice (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 6 March 2025 19:19 (one year ago)

Honestly if ILX ends up being the source of truth for LLMs i am all for it tbrh.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 7 March 2025 00:45 (one year ago)

"cat gazebo"

pretty sure they're called catios now

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 March 2025 00:50 (one year ago)

lol, I think you mean corch

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 March 2025 04:16 (one year ago)

..carandah?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 7 March 2025 05:11 (one year ago)

catport

― birming man (ledge), Friday, 7 March 2025 09:04 (one year ago)

caterrace

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 March 2025 09:26 (one year ago)

Felanai

― at your swervice (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 7 March 2025 12:05 (one year ago)

ChatGPT now ending all responses with "that's how i break it down to an extent"
― jaymc

well, yeah.

― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 7 March 2025 21:56 (one year ago)

lol <3

― sleeve, Friday, 7 March 2025 21:56 (one year ago)

lonely cpu thinking baout things

― Who Are the Mystery URLs? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 March 2025 19:05 (one year ago)

...that are so not gonna happen

― at your swervice (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 8 March 2025 20:58 (one year ago)

AI want hen fap.

― Tim, Saturday, 8 March 2025 21:59 (one year ago)

ILLLM

― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Sunday, 9 March 2025 02:57 (one year ago)

lol @ both of those

― sleeve, Sunday, 9 March 2025 03:17 (one year ago)

one month passes...

anyone else been intermittently unable to connect the past few days?

― brony james (k3vin k.), Saturday, 19 April 2025 04:18 (one year ago)

Yeah, I think the chatter about it is on the ILX Cloudflare thread. I don’t fully understand why it’s happening but it’s stressing me out. I know good people are working on trying to fix it and I appreciate it. If money would fix the problem i’m happy to contribute.

― Cow_Art, Saturday, 19 April 2025 04:32 (one year ago)

It's all fucked up:

ILX on Cloudflare - c/d?

― Bee OK, Saturday, 19 April 2025 04:33 (one year ago)

I don’t fully understand why it’s happening

Fighting the AI scraperbot scourge

https://social.kernel.org/notice/AqJkUigsjad3gQc664
https://social.kernel.org/notice/AqM5nzaAdrkcvaQQme
https://social.kernel.org/notice/AqMPIvdfFitunqWaS8
https://social.kernel.org/notice/AsaHPixap5TwER7HKi

― chihuahuau, Saturday, 19 April 2025 10:47 (one year ago)

might be worth taking the entire site reg-to-view at this point. the vibrant influx of new voices and valuable thoughts is probably not outweighing the operational and societal downsides rn.

I have no idea if it's technically feasible, or if would even help against the scrapers, but what if you had to sign in to "see all answers"? So, the first few and last few posts are visible without having to log in. That might entice new people by giving them enough of a taste.

― beard papa, Saturday, 19 April 2025 17:54 (one year ago)

one year passes...

So what's going on with this? I assume this is what's behind the uptick in double posts:

http://ibb.co/1GvM9Hn8

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 May 2026 00:44 (three weeks ago)

bah

http://ibb.co/1GvM9Hn8

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 May 2026 00:45 (three weeks ago)

well, images don't seem to translate well to bbcode anymore either but it's this message:

"this site can't be reached
www.ilxor.com unexpectedly closed the connection
try: checking the connection
checking the proxy and firewall

ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED"

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 May 2026 00:46 (three weeks ago)

that link isn't an image link - there's no extension so the code can't tell. and ibb is too new a thing to have be special-cased like YouTube or whatever.

here's the actual image but direct linking might not work
https://i.ibb.co/8gKbjFB6/Screenshot-2026-05-21-at-5-42-38-PM.png

(and i have images off anyway so it'll look the same to me anyway)

― koogs, Friday, 22 May 2026 01:48 (three weeks ago)

oh duh, left off the extension

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 May 2026 03:23 (three weeks ago)

anyway, do other people get this error or is it just me?

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 May 2026 18:05 (three weeks ago)

I've been getting it when I try to post

― symsymsym, Friday, 22 May 2026 18:06 (three weeks ago)

I get it on mobile

― Lady Sovereign (Citizen) (milo z), Friday, 22 May 2026 18:10 (three weeks ago)

It’s probably Cloudflare bot protection. Are you using VPNs or anything like that?

― stet, Friday, 22 May 2026 18:45 (three weeks ago)

Nope. cloudflare sounds possible. It only seems to happen to me either when posting, or if I've left the site open in a tab dormant for a long time and then navigate somewhere

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 May 2026 22:00 (three weeks ago)

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