🚅 Lag update!

hey everyone — sorry for the quiet week. here are some updates:

  • lag on both sites. we hit another AI crawler situation, which is becoming a recurring theme honestly. the good news is i've gotten faster at identifying and blocking these — you should already be noticing both sites feeling snappier now that that traffic is cut off.
  • broken cron jobs. a bunch of the timed features that folks have been bringing up: the recycle beast, the potion lottery, pet spotlight, these all run on a scheduler, and something's been off with that scheduler. some things aren't firing at all, others are running at the wrong time. i'm tracking down what's going wrong and getting those back on their normal schedule.
  • 404s: this was an issue for a few minutes due to the bot blocking. should be resolved now!

more updates as things shake out. thanks for your patience!

March 31, 2026, 5:43 am by capper09
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.. I get it... who really likes to give away their secrets? That way, there's always plenty of room for speculation... Since Subeta is still around despite all those annoying errors, you must be doing something right... And my suggestion wasn't meant to be taken entirely seriously... I always forget to mention that, because some people here don't seem to get the humor... ;)

March 30, 2026, 9:48 am by Alferia
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Thank you, it feels a lot snappier now! :)

March 30, 2026, 8:21 am by Xezvi
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Thank dog, that lag has been INSANE! Immediately noticed the improvement ♥️

March 30, 2026, 2:37 am by Moony
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Thanks for the quick lag fix! Heads up on the cleansing pools, they have not reset since migration I think.

March 30, 2026, 2:37 am by Moony
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Thanks for the quick lag fix! Heads up on the cleansing pools, they have not reset since migration I think.

March 30, 2026, 1:50 am by BaronOfBirchmen
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Much thanks for the update and all the hard work!

March 29, 2026, 11:12 pm by SighFi
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uuughhhhhhh ai crawlers. yeah that explains a lot :/ thank you for taking out the trash <3 site's running much more smoothly now!!

March 29, 2026, 9:37 pm by GalaxyEyes
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Thank you so much again for your continued hard work Keith

March 29, 2026, 8:42 pm by Beldam
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thank you for working so hard. the lag is infinitely better ❤️

March 29, 2026, 7:24 pm by Keith
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There aren't programmers, it's just me - and I'm doing this for free, so I'd prefer not to give out the only thing keeping the site running!

March 29, 2026, 6:43 pm by stars_water
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I did notice some sneaky javascript kept showing up randomly, getting blocked by an add-on of mine. I figured it was something like that. Glad the crawler issue is fixed now.

March 29, 2026, 5:35 pm by insect
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Thank you so much for all the hard work! It's pretty minor but Rock, Paper, Scissors is also affected; my active pet has refused to play with me for days (which is funny ngl).

March 29, 2026, 5:33 pm by Magic
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Ew, gross, Ai crawlers. Thank you Keith for fending them off!

March 29, 2026, 5:14 pm by Searchname
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I hate AI Call me a luddite and let me grab my sabbo

March 29, 2026, 5:09 pm by capper09
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I think it would be a good idea to give each of us 1,000 CSC every time we encounter an error tag. That way, at least one side benefits, and to keep Subeta from going under, the programmers might show up to work a little more rested. It’s just a suggestion.. 🥳

March 29, 2026, 5:05 pm by Targaryen
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Thanks for the update and keeping us in the loop,

March 29, 2026, 5:00 pm by gatorgirl
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Thank you for the update.

March 29, 2026, 5:00 pm by MatrixedAgain
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Thank you Keith for all your hard work. I'm glad you got a well earned break from Subeta for a while.

March 29, 2026, 4:54 pm by Barbie
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Bless your heart, Keith. It seems like you've always got so much to work on here. Thank you 🖤🖤

March 29, 2026, 4:52 pm by moonstarr
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What is bot blocking?

March 29, 2026, 4:52 pm by Keith
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Yeah, there is a [url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/keeping-web-under-weight-ai-crawlers[lot of writing[/url] on this - lots of sites suffering from the huge traffic (but no $$) that comes from these bots :/ And since Subeta has so much "original" content on it, it's a really rich target for these kinds of bots.

March 29, 2026, 4:50 pm by Searchname
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So not only does AI rip people off, it damages the sites it is ripping off. Egads.

March 29, 2026, 4:46 pm by lull
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Thank you for keeping us in the loop

March 29, 2026, 4:46 pm by Kayt
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Thank you!!!

March 29, 2026, 4:45 pm by Serena922003
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Thank you <3

March 29, 2026, 4:43 pm by Sleeb
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Thank you for your hard work!

March 29, 2026, 4:42 pm by Diana
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Shops not restocking all items yet.

March 29, 2026, 4:41 pm by StarShadow
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Thank you for the update. I just now discovered a problem with my CW shop. When I edit the shop to check prices, it only shows about 24 of the 68 items in my shop. I'm guessing this is something new because I haven't checked the shop for a while. Thanks for all the work.

March 29, 2026, 4:41 pm by MarchOnOff
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Subeta doesn't like it when you go on vacation :D Thanks much <3

March 29, 2026, 4:40 pm by Chezzerai
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Thank you. Also know that I would rather be on a laggy subeta than any other site. That's how good you have made the subeta site/community.

March 29, 2026, 4:38 pm by BoaConstrictor
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Huge Thank You!

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