DU is temporarily in "members only" mode (UPDATE: Back to normal for now)

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DU is temporarily in "members only" mode (UPDATE: Back to normal for now)

UPDATE 7:15 PM ET FRIDAY:

It seems that the excess traffic was caused by a search engine crawler that was spamming us with requests. We've blocked the crawler and it seems to have significantly reduced the excess traffic, so we've switched "members only" mode off again, and the site is currently back to normal. Hopefully things will remain stable overnight.

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

We are currently seeing a significant spike in traffic above our normal levels, which appears to be ongoing, and the increase in traffic is causing the site to slow down for everyone.

In "members only" mode, DU can only be viewed by members who are signed in, which significantly reduces the number of connections to the database, meaning that signed-in members can use the site as normal while we investigate the situation. We're looking into what is causing this spike in traffic right now.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/101316145

Well how about that.