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

[DessDess]

Idk if it's cause if the recent maintenance check but for some reason pages won't load now. It worked fine previous. Im using chrome but i tried opera too and it doesn't work there either

 

[Nekoya-Sensei]

So how much longer should we expect this to last? Can we get an estimate?

 

[drakedog]

meh this is happening way too often

 

[shwiftyshfifty]

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.