Bitcoin Forum

I have been trying to log in and the forum is super slow again, I got some of these "(504) busy, try again later" errors.

Is this organic traffic maybe driven by the price increase, or are we under attack, or both combined? I could see someone like Ver spamming this forum to frustrate newcomers that are finding out about Bitcoin through this forum so they try to access their bitcoin(dot)com forum instead, since he is trying really hard to get his reddit and his forum to be the first ranked forums.

I hope this gets fixed soon anyway, I hate when I post something and I lose the post because it returns an error.

You may be lucky, and your posts might of been saved in the drafts: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=drafts depending on how the forum handles the error codes. The forums slowness is unrelated to Tor though, and has been slow for everyone for the last hour or so but seems to be improving in the last few minutes. If it were a malicious attack, then the it's either stopped or the servers are now dealing with them.

I think it may be related. Since a ton of Tor nodes are banned by the captcha used by the forum, users tend to click on "new tor circuit for this website" until they find one of the increasingly fewer nodes that aren't been banned yet. This puts a ton of people using the same nodes to connect to the server, which coupled with the problem itself of the DDoS + increased organic traffic ends up in a terrible Tor performance.

You can always change the node once you manage to log in with another click on "new tor circuit for this website" but I think most people don't do that once they log in.

It took me about a dozen TOR nodes to find one that let me login in here.  Sucks, but Theymos is aware and he is going to look at all this in a few days.  While all this DDos and stuff is frustrating the crap out of all of us, the other side of the equation is that the coins sitting on my Trezors are making my life a cheerful place!  As of this time; I am posting this from a TOR exit relay in France this site is very fast and smooth.  Nice page loads at this time.

Since two days I am facing this issue error 504. I was facing problem in lost minute posts to complete the weekly post quantity. I am afraid might this issue will continue we have to schedule to post our campaign one day before so that we can avoid missing the targeted post of the campaign.

same here although im not using a tor or any kinds of vpn but still i always get error 505 status and sometimes the site loads verry slow even  if my modem have a good signal strenght. i think this is due to ddos attack which theymos recently stated here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2485318.0

I've never had this problem and I use tor. Perhaps you are running on a high density node?

Like mentioned above, bitcointalk is apparently experiencing a ddos attack. This was one of the reasons why theymos implemented cloudflare not to long ago, but I believe that has been currently removed.