Why wont the pages load [Intermittent outages from extremely high traffic]

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Similar issues to others in this thread. Pages load but images don't. Takes anywhere between 10 seconds and 60 seconds per image, seems to load the images in sequential order.
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Normal website functionality with minor to severe image delays is the current expected behaviour under high site load. Previously expected behaviour until a week ago was the entire site crashing and becoming inaccessible for several hours, for comparison. Developers are continuing to work on further fixes.
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Using this as a lodestone to make an updated answer for the thread:

Normal website functionality with minor to severe image delays is the current expected behaviour under high site load. Previously expected behaviour until a week ago was the entire site crashing and becoming inaccessible for several hours, for comparison. Developers are continuing to work on further fixes.
Do you know if the high traffic is from AI crawlers? I've seen posts by a lot of other admins (mostly open-source communities) experiencing insane traffic from crawlers that disregard to robots.txt and crash their site, sometimes twice a day.

*I suppose it would be difficult to say for sure since many of them are really good at disguising themselves as legitimate users... which is why I recently made a post suggesting adding Anubis to the site. As you can see if you follow the link, it works simply and without user interaction.
 

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