Site issues

Submitted by Jilb on April 21, 2025
Anyone else having loading issues today? It lags and takes about a minute to load anything that I click on.
33 Comments
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Level 73
Apr 21, 2025
I thought it was just my internet lol

Yes, I have been suffering massive lag spikes for around 6 hours

(This comment took ~10 seconds to upload)

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Level 76
Apr 21, 2025
yours actually seem to load??

I just get time-out errors and it remains a surprise/mystery if my comment actually got through. I have to click on something else, another quiz, wait for that to load which can be several minutes, then click back, wait for several more minutes and see if my comment made it. More often than not, it didn't, so I have to try all over again.

Refreshing somehow wasn't an option I forgot why (never seemed to do anything I believe), but the clicking on another link was the best option. Atleast sómetimes my comment seemed to be there, or even duplicates

Wow this comment came right through, this attempt I mean (I wrote a reply here before, none of my comments on this page are chronological haha). This was after I had told (led to believe ;) ) jetpunk I was in fact human! Perhaps that is all they need to know haha.

Edit 2 wow even the edit went through so fast! Gotten so used to nothing happening and loading screens that it is weird to see it go so (lightning fast!

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Level 61
Apr 21, 2025
Oh my God yes it sucks, at least it's not just me
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Level 75
Apr 21, 2025
Happening to me as well, loading pages, finishing quizzes etc
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Level 61
Apr 21, 2025
Is it over?
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Level 93
Apr 21, 2025
Not over for me. It’s working intermittently. Where are you all located? I’m in Spain. I’m wondering if it’s a regional thing or everywhere and directly related to jetpunk’s severs.
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Level 81
Apr 21, 2025
1430 in UK, lagging here.
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Level 87
Apr 21, 2025
Significant lag spikes in the USA (0850 CDT). Seems to be a server issue.
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Level 61
Apr 21, 2025
Greece 17:00. Yep still here indeed

It is definitely 7 hours atp

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Level 73
Apr 21, 2025
The day isn't over yet, but JetPunk has gained over 100,000 less plays today compared to yesterday
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Level 61
Apr 21, 2025
And yesterday was a Sunday
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Level 76
Apr 21, 2025
@maxibon only the stubborn ones are still here and keep trying haha. Or the too addicted ones, which are probably the same people ;) (me included)

Wow a new error occured!! now it says an unknown error has occured, not just timed out.

Edit 2 omg! now I went to a completely new page which said Jetpunk is verifying if I am human haha! (possibly because I am trying to post the same comment several times? some mechanism to prohibited mass-spamming? Or Jetpunk has jsut completely lost the plot haha. And has been taken over by non-humans themselves!

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Level 76
Apr 21, 2025
Netherlands 17:00 (but 17:30 by now) issues since I got online about 8 hours ago
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Level 63
Apr 21, 2025
happening to me
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Level 76
Apr 21, 2025
Somehow you always think it is just you, even if other things seem fine. (though a couple of times my other internet pages seem slower than usual too (though not to the point of nearly freezing, just not instant) so I started to doubt.

I spend an entire hour today writing one, well actually 2 it didn't fit in one post! Every time I edited it took about 10 minutes to check if the comment had been changed or not (sometimes it did sometimes it didn't)

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Level ∞
Apr 21, 2025
Investigating. I think it's a DDOS attack, but I'm not sure.

Everyone will have to do a Captcha for awhile.

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Level 61
Apr 21, 2025
Was any data stolen?
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Level ∞
Apr 21, 2025
No
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Level 76
Apr 21, 2025
After I said I was human things are going smooth, atleast on this page, let me try to go through the quizzes and leave a comment elsewhere. Happy to help investigate, though apart from the above I don't think there is much I can do from here

Edit Everything seems fine now. Atleast from user point of view. Can click through quizzes fast and comments works fine on quiz pages as well

Hopefully on the server end everything will be fine too.

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Level 73
Apr 21, 2025
Should we change passwords and emails?
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Level ∞
Apr 21, 2025
No
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Level 73
Apr 21, 2025
Thank you
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Level ∞
Apr 21, 2025
If people are curious about what's happening, I think this article explains it.

Basically AI scrapers are trying to scrape the web for training data. They are very badly behaved since everyone would block them if they could.

So they pay app developers to include a trojan horse on their apps which scrapes the web pretending to be that user.

There is no way to stop it. We are getting hit with 50,000 different ips.

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Level 73
Apr 21, 2025
Defo buying premium this year to help out your servers
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Level 93
Apr 22, 2025
Wow that article is nuts! Anyone who hasn’t checked it out yet, should. Thanks for the info, quizmaster
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Level 43
Apr 21, 2025
Was having problems over the past couple hours (USA), but I just got a Captcha and it seems back to normal on my end.
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Level 61
Apr 21, 2025
Same it defo seems better
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Level 55
Apr 21, 2025
Very laggy before, with tons of double messages happening, but it seems better now.
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Level 92
Apr 22, 2025
I went on yesterday (on my laptop) and it was saying I wasn’t human. I’m currently using it on my phone rn. I was just wondering if it’s working again or what? Also, for the people that lost their streaks cause of this, is there any way to get them back?
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Level 92
Apr 22, 2025
Everything works fine now for me. I can use it on my laptop once again.
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Level ∞
Apr 22, 2025
FYI, we are still being absolutely bombarded by scrapers. But we have mitigated the damage.
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Level 25
Jan 7, 2026
Most of the time when I click random, it freezes and I have to restart the cite.
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Level 93
Jan 27, 2026
Anyone having trouble loading geography snap? I've got nothing except the ol' spinning wheel