We’re happy to share that the website is now much more protected thanks to the new Cloudflare security improvements we’ve put in place.
Over the past few days, the website and especially the forums were receiving a very high amount of traffic from bots, crawlers, and automated requests. Some of these were harmless, but many were constantly visiting forum pages, member lists, guest pages, and other areas of the site in a way that created unnecessary load and made the website slower or less stable for real users.
To help with this, we added and adjusted several Cloudflare protection rules.
Added new Cloudflare security rules to better protect the website.
Improved the protection of the forums against bot crawlers and automated traffic.
Created special rules for sensitive phpBB guest pages such as member lists and topic pages.
Added rate limiting to reduce repeated requests from suspicious visitors.
Blocked or challenged traffic that looked automated, while still allowing real users and trusted bots to access the site.
Improved the way Cloudflare handles suspicious requests before they reach our server.
Reduced the amount of unwanted traffic reaching the origin server.
Helped make the website faster, safer, and more stable during traffic spikes.
In the last 24 hours alone, Cloudflare handled hundreds of thousands of requests for the website. A large portion of those were either filtered, challenged, or served safely through Cloudflare before they could put pressure on the server. This means the website is now better prepared against spam bots, scrapers, fake guest activity, and aggressive crawlers.
The forums are included in this protection too. Since the forum was one of the main areas being targeted by bots, we added extra protection there to make sure normal users can continue browsing, posting, and reading topics without the website being slowed down by automated traffic. The forum had to be temporarily deactivated so you probably had trouble sending messages for the past few hours, but you can now resume your activity and your chat messages just fine!
These changes are part of our ongoing work to keep Winx Club Online safe, stable, and enjoyable for everyone.
As always, if you notice anything unusual, such as pages not loading correctly, being challenged too often, or any bugs while browsing the website or forums, please let us know through “Contact Us” under the “Community” tab, or message us in the online forums through the “HELP!” subforum.
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