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Notices => Forum Notices => Topic started by: simmie on April 13, 2026, 04:32:16 AM

Title: Secretprojects.co.uk
Post by: simmie on April 13, 2026, 04:32:16 AM

Is anyone else having issues get access to secretproject.co.uk??

Title: Re: Secretprojects.co.uk
Post by: The Big Gimper on April 13, 2026, 04:40:28 AM

Quote from: simmie on April 13, 2026, 04:32:16 AM

Is anyone else having issues get access to secretproject.co.uk??

Just poked around so no issues from Canada.

Title: Re: Secretprojects.co.uk
Post by: apophenia on April 14, 2026, 04:30:36 AM

Quote from: simmie on April 13, 2026, 04:32:16 AM

Is anyone else having issues get access to secretproject.co.uk??

Another bout of AI scraping on Secret Projects led Paul to turn on Cloudflare's "Are you human?" button. If you're not on mobile (or Russian VPN, etc.) you should be okay now.

Title: Re: Secretprojects.co.uk
Post by: simmie on April 15, 2026, 05:02:58 AM

Just tried it again and the verification it just looping round.  The first run through it actually asks me to confirm I'm a human and tick the box, which I do then it just loops around again and again.

I am on a laptop running windows 7 on a wireless connection

Title: Re: Secretprojects.co.uk
Post by: apophenia on April 15, 2026, 07:34:14 AM

That sucks! My late, lamented HP laptop ran on Win7 and I never had any major problems with the Secret Projects Forum. Your issues pretty much confirm that the problem originates with Cloudfare - quelle surprise!

The helpful folks on community.cloudflare.com recommend updating to the latest operating system so that their shitty software doesn't have to be backwards compatible ;p