[fpc-pascal] Lazarus Forums not working

[Marc Weustink]

On 10/09/2025 00:32, lazarus--- via fpc-pascal wrote:
> n7800 via fpc-pascal wrote on 10/9/25 2:00 am:
>>     Try this:
>>
>>     1) Open a new private/incognito window
>>     2) Go to the forum home page: https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/
>>     3) Click any forum link
>>
>> I confirm, the links does not open, only the main page. Although 
>> logged in, I can read and reply.
> 
> The first few link attempts give me the enable cookies message, after 
> those few attempts all connections are then refused. Anti bot run amok?

Yes. Last week bots made the forum unusable. Since they (till now) don't 
use cookies, I redirect all requests without cookies to the use cookies 
page. When you try this 5 times within 10 minutes, your IP is blocked 
for one hour.

Marc