BlueBraviaryGirl
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Can you add Walking Wake to favorite Gen. 9 Pokémon please? And Iron Leaves?
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Does this mean people who made an account through Twitter can't log in anymore?2023-04-15
- Due to Twitter API changes, it's no longer possible to register or log-in to a Bulbagarden Forums account using a Twitter account. This functionality may return in future, but it's not likely to be any time soon.
- We have now enabled registration and log-in using Twitch and Tumblr accounts.
Essentially yes, so we want those who're affected by it to contact us to get things fixed and set them up with a different way to log in! (you can do that here, even if you're not logged in!)Does this mean people who made an account through Twitter can't log in anymore?
I made an account through normal means, I'm just curious what this means for them.
I noticed myself.I feel like I'm losing my mind, but the forum feels slower than usual. Am I the only one on this? I don't think it's my ISP. Thank you in advance for hearing me out!
Yeah, it was an issue that a lot of staff were facing as well (who collectively thought it was their own ISPs as well LOL). We just pushed an update out to the forums, and it's been much, much faster for me as well, I hope that's the case for everyone else?I feel like I'm losing my mind, but the forum feels slower than usual. Am I the only one on this? I don't think it's my ISP. Thank you in advance for hearing me out!
Keep posts relevant to the thread or a post within it, and avoid making posts that disrupt the flow of conversation. This includes but is not limited to:
- Offering goods or services in exchange for payment, including donations, or virtual currency
I did notice for a few days or so that the site was very sluggish. That will explain it.2023-08-25
Embed links for posts on TikTok are no longer functional, due to behaviour on TikTok's end that was leading to degraded forum performance for all users. Specifically, the Bytespider bot (from TikTok's parent company Bytedance) was sending an insane amount of requests to the site per second, with a growth rate to requests that outstripped our cloud servers ability to ramp up and deal with the load. Effectively, Bytespider was DDoSing us.
The Bytespider is now being explicitly blocked for us by Cloudflare, and we should see an immediate improvement in forums performance, and potentially on Bulbapedia as well.
UPDATE: We've also blocked the Aspiegel PetalBot (a bot for the search engine owned by Huawei), which was exhibiting similar characteristics to the Bytespider. More bots may get blocked in the near future for the same reason.
In tandem with this, we've also rewritten the BulbaBlogs rules to further expand on advertising. If you're a BulbaBlogs regular, or are planning on advertising a project here in the Bulbagarden Forums community, we recommend reading through these updates rules.6. Avoid making disruptive or irrelevant posts (Disruptive Post) [3 points, 3 months]
Keep posts relevant to the thread or a post within it, and avoid making posts that disrupt the flow of conversation. This includes but is not limited to:
- Continuing to discuss something after a moderator asked it be dropped
- Repeatedly posting the same arguments within a thread(s)
- Reposting content just to get it higher on the thread list
- Posting spoilers for recent media not in spoiler tags
- Advertising other websites in threads when it's not related to the topic
- Posting large images (larger than 500x500px) without spoiler tags
- Offering goods or services in exchange for payment, including donations, or virtual currency
- Advertising personal projects outside of your profile, signature, and BulbaBlogs (see the BulbaBlogs rules for more details) (added September 26, 2023)