Polish users cut off from TalkChess

[flok]

But the situation as it is now with randomly blocking peope is IMO disgusting

"disgusting"? You're overreacting, it is only a forum.

[mclane]

The situation is now years.
Nothing changes. Today we are used to handle the misery

[flok]

I guess this is how putin or any dictator in the world rescues his status quo of dictatorship.

CONARD

This post has been reported, what's the verdict?

Not the one it is responding to? Which is, well, offending in stupidity to say the least?

[Eelco de Groot]

Is there anyone who would be unwilling to use the Opera browser, with VPN on, to vote?

It is ridiculous that we should be forced to use a VPN and be subject to all the measures that are used to throw out bots, no mater if you are logged in or not. This is supposed to be a forum and not guerrilla warfare. And no I don't want to leave because at some point you have to stop running. Even if it is just a forum. This is the world today and we are going to see more of it. I mean it is not just this forum; https://nos.nl/artikel/2395945-eigenaar ... -aanvallen Sorry you will have to translate, it's Dutch, just an example.

[mclane]

Again this is our forum.
This forum belongs to the computerchess members.

As it seems the company hosting it is not capable to deal with the problems that sabotages our community.
Blocking people, even moderators or moderator candidates out of access.

Nothing changes. A disapointing failure.

[towforce]

I guess this is how putin or any dictator in the world rescues his status quo of dictatorship.

CONARD

This post has been reported, what's the verdict?

+1

IMO the post is against the charter and should be removed.

It's OK to make a case against the content of somebody's post, but's it's not OK to reply by just being rude.

[towforce]

https://nos.nl/artikel/2395945-eigenaar ... -aanvallen Sorry you will have to translate, it's Dutch, just an example.

Not a problem for Chrome users: two clicks and the whole page is translated.

[yurikvelo]

Now it is "403 Forbidden" for me.
45.151.236.169

[yurikvelo]

I am not aware what happens behind the scene, but I guess our sponsor performs a site migration to the CDN and DOS protection provider
Cloudflare

Cloudflare never send "HTTP 403 Forbidden" response via fully functional TCP/IP connect to port 80. It works on lower level.
"403 Forbidden" doesn't protect from DoS, it is done via .htaccess (for Apache; or similar config for other http servers)

[hgm]

Are the problems for our Polish members now solved?