[BPIP] Bitcointalk Public Information Project [Back in Action]

[ibminer]

~First, I see some invisible member was getting selected into DT1

Thanks, this does look like a bug of some sort but I'm not entirely sure who (if anyone) it is referencing there, it will need a closer look.

~This could mean it didn't happen to me alone, there could be some more incorrect changes in the log that we think.

As others have mentioned, these entries are related to the lottery/shuffle that happens each month when theymos pseudo-trolls the trust system.
I wouldn't call this a bug per se but there are usability improvements here that could handle it better in terms of readability and attempting to discern what changes were done by the user themselves.

I would say that when the user has to adapt to programmers, and not the other way round, that is a bad UX choice.

I'm not sure Apple would agree with you, but I do.  
I know suchmoon has had thoughts on improvements with the /TrustLog in the past, as have others in this thread via suggestions. There have been todo items on the list related to its improvements, it's time that is scarce.

I had it simply comparing the changes.

suchmoon had done a decent overhaul on the report back here, so I'm not sure if it is exactly as you remember it, although the general concept on how it compares (I think) may be similar, SM would know more on that.

When looking at the activity ranking it would be fun to have a column for "latest post " (to see when this member made their last post on the forum). Seeing if a member has posted in the last 2 weeks or not would help you get a picture if their activity is going to rank up in the next period or not. Also, I don't see why the hourglass indicating inactivity isn't shown next to usernames in this ranking. This page is where it's the most relevant.

Thanks, it looks like the inactivity tooltip isn't on any of the main "MATR" report pages, but is showing on other reports. This may have been an oversight during the conversion to Razor which needs to be adjusted, unless there is some weird reason I am forgetting on why we would have left it off on these reports, but I can't foresee any reason at the moment.

As for "latest post", I've made a note of this suggestion, in theory this shouldn't be too difficult to tie into the query, and on this report, might make sense. BPIP's DB only has posts going back to ~April 2019, so some really inactive users, on other reports, may not make sense with this type of column. Of course I'm always open to various use cases I may not be thinking of.

I'm outta sMerit, but I'll catch back up later. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions, bug reports & thoughtful conversation!

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[BlackBoss_]

Is BPIP down or is it dead?
https://bpip.org/

Code:

The service is unavailable.

Is it a problem with the host server or the team decided to stop running BPIP.org?

[pakhitheboss]

Is BPIP down or is it dead?
https://bpip.org/

Code:

The service is unavailable.

Is it a problem with the host server or the team decided to stop running BPIP.org?

It is generating a 503 server error. A common problem would be the server is under maintenance or there is high traffic which the server is unable to handle. I do not think the team has decided to stop running it. Hopefully, it will come back again.

[NotATether]

Is BPIP down or is it dead?
https://bpip.org/

Code:

The service is unavailable.

Is it a problem with the host server or the team decided to stop running BPIP.org?

It is generating a 503 server error. A common problem would be the server is under maintenance or there is high traffic which the server is unable to handle. I do not think the team has decided to stop running it. Hopefully, it will come back again.

In this case it is not really server maintenance unless the web server had actually crashed. Because you can still update the site while the web server is running.

It's more likely that the web server is crashing, but whether this is due to high traffic I don't know. In fact I don't suspect that BPIP hardly gets any traffic since its not on Google.

[Findingnemo]

Feel relieved to know that I am not the only one who is facing the issue. Because last time there is similar kind of situation that occured only for me.

Well, I am getting two kinds of errors one is " the service is unavailable" as others mentioned and another one is



Hope the problem will be resolved sooner.

[pakhitheboss]

In this case it is not really server maintenance unless the web server had actually crashed. Because you can still update the site while the web server is running.

It's more likely that the web server is crashing, but whether this is due to high traffic I don't know. In fact I don't suspect that BPIP hardly gets any traffic since its not on Google.

Then what could be the issue? It was working earlier in the morning before I wrote the reply. Now it is still not up and I don't think they are closing it down. Only @OP can come and adress this issue of 503 error.

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I have not got the 502 error message. I am only getting a blank page with 503 error message on the top. I too hope the problem gets resolved at the earliest.

[examplens]

Feel relieved to know that I am not the only one who is facing the issue. Because last time there is similar kind of situation that occured only for me.

It's not just you, the bpip.org server is down and we won't know the severity of the problem until the devs announce what's going on. I saw earlier that BPIP browser extensions cannot collect data from there.

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bpip.org

[ibminer]

My guess is a DDoS or maybe a hung up process in IIS, but I need to wait for suchmoon to confirm, the commands needed to show resource information like this aren't really available on a shell/terminal user account. Server is still partially accessible on my end though, IIS appears running, but everything is very slow. The 503 error sort of hints towards a resource issue, one way or the other.

In fact I don't suspect that BPIP hardly gets any traffic since its not on Google.

Where would you get that idea from?  https://www.google.com/search?q=site:bpip.org

[NotATether]

In fact I don't suspect that BPIP hardly gets any traffic since its not on Google.

Where would you get that idea from?  https://www.google.com/search?q=site:bpip.org

I meant when you search for something, BPIP is usually not ranked in the list of results, not that it isn't indexed by Google.

[suchmoon]

My guess is a DDoS or maybe a hung up process in IIS, but I need to wait for suchmoon to confirm, the commands needed to show resource information like this aren't really available on a shell/terminal user account. Server is still partially accessible on my end though, IIS appears running, but everything is very slow. The 503 error sort of hints towards a resource issue, one way or the other.

Yeah looks like DDOS. Not much I can do about that. As I said in the other thread, the forum is full of deranged trolls with nothing better to do. BPIP is only known or useful to bitcointalkers so no one else would have any interest in bringing it down.

[LoyceV]

Yeah looks like DDOS. Not much I can do about that. As I said in the other thread, the forum is full of deranged trolls with nothing better to do. BPIP is only known or useful to bitcointalkers so no one else would have any interest in bringing it down.

Could it be the DDOS started after this post?

by the way - can you or @ibminer update the donators page in bpip

Call me paranoid, but it could be related.

[ibminer]

Call me paranoid, but it could be related.

This thought had crossed my mind as well.

Let them have their "fun", they'll eventually get bored and/or scared of having more of their botnets identified.

I meant when you search for something, BPIP is usually not ranked in the list of results, not that it isn't indexed by Google.

Ah! Got it. Then yes you're probably right (in terms of google searches), there isn't much to SEO on since it is primarily stats and names, there are some topic titles which could have some effect but there isn't much content itself to optimize for search engines!

[NotATether]

Call me paranoid, but it could be related.

This thought had crossed my mind as well.

Let them have their "fun", they'll eventually get bored and/or scared of having more of their botnets identified.

Gee, I wonder whether they are using [banned site] to send you DDoS traffic?

[suchmoon]

Yeah looks like DDOS. Not much I can do about that. As I said in the other thread, the forum is full of deranged trolls with nothing better to do. BPIP is only known or useful to bitcointalkers so no one else would have any interest in bringing it down.

Could it be the DDOS started after this post?

by the way - can you or @ibminer update the donators page in bpip

Call me paranoid, but it could be related.

Yes, I think there is a good chance that either the above, or me labeling these fine individuals as "deranged trolls", or a combination thereof might have resulted in this situation. Too much of a coinkydinky.

[ibminer]

Well, the parsers are still running and updating the DB, so I wouldn't call BPIP completely down... 'tis thorns in the paws of lions.

[suchmoon]

The website may or may not be up... kinda schroedinger's situation we have going on now, blocking around 1 million requests per minute but there is still a bunch that get through so it may occasionally appear running for some users and dead for others. Extension might be more stable, it uses less bandwidth than webpages.

[Findingnemo]

The website may or may not be up...

BPIP is back in action



But some pages are not loading or take more time than usual but homepage is still the one facing attack so it is not coming up no matter how many times refreshing it.

Edit: Homepage is working too.

[suchmoon]

But some pages are not loading or take more time than usual but homepage is still the one facing attack so it is not coming up no matter how many times refreshing it.

I have replaced it with a dummy page that should now have a link to the real home page but it probably won't last long until it gets attacked too. Unfortunately this will be a long story until the attackers run out of fresh IPs.

Edit: grammar.

[Vod]

But some pages are not loading or take more time than usual but homepage is still the one facing attack so it is not coming up no matter how many times refreshing it.

I have replaced it with a dummy page than should now have a link to the real home page but it probably won't last long until it gets attacked too. Unfortunately this will be a long story until the attackers run out of fresh IPs.

Have you considered other donators?   I could host a copy of your website on a round robin DNS; at least take away 50% of the traffic.   Since you maintain exclusive control to the data, it shouldn't be an issue.

[suchmoon]

Have you considered other donators?   I could host a copy of your website on a round robin DNS; at least take away 50% of the traffic.   Since you maintain exclusive control to the data, it shouldn't be an issue.

Thank you for the offer but this isn't organic traffic so throwing more resources at it doesn't seem right. Need to filter it off as far away from the server as possible.