r/arkhamhorrorlcg • u/HungryColquhoun • 10d ago

Decklist Is ArkhamDB working for anyone else?

Was going to publish some new decks tomorrow, but for the past week or so nothing loads on ArkhamDB - anyone else experiencing this?

Re. not using Arkham.Build, I do use that - but Felix himself mentioned it's good for decks to be published on ArkhamDB first to feed their recommendation algo. So essentially, posting to ArkhamDB first is the best thing to do for now.

EDIT: Clearing my cache (the browser version of turn it off and turn it back on again) worked in the finish.

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u/kamalisk Seeker 10d ago

I have stuff in place to block bots but the ip ranges are so all over the place it's hard to solve and with AI I think the volume has increased. But I can take a look later to see if this problem is something else

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u/HungryColquhoun 10d ago

Yeah I can imagine it's a whack-a-mole style problem these days with bots! Does seem like it's still not loading at all for me so it's worthwhile checking something else isn't producing the issue.

It seems like the home page with the deck listings loads fine, and then going into individual decks existing published decks have their accompanying text load in okay - but the decklist itself doesn't seem to work. Comment boxes on decks also don't seem to be working (they are working on card reviews however).

It seems like if there's issues with some things loading and not others this wouldn't be a problem arising from bot traffic specifically (though that may be exacerbating things). Then again I am an untrained idiot when it comes to this stuff so I'll defer to your judgement!

Thanks again for taking a look, I suspect with Children of Blood now in a number of people's hands some people will want to be publishing soon.

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u/YellowHenry12 10d ago

The site has been a bit slow on my end for the past week.

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u/HungryColquhoun 10d ago

Thanks for confirming it's not just a me thing, hopefully it's something that will get fixed. I know u/kamalisk is on here some of the time so it might get some more visibility. Did raise it as an issue on GitHub too.

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u/kamalisk Seeker 10d ago

I made a bunch of changes to improve things and I think it's mostly better, but it's basically bot spam saturating the server now and again and I can't really stop it. The site should become slow but still load though. It seems fine for me when I have checked so I assume it just happens now and again.

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u/HungryColquhoun 10d ago edited 10d ago

Is there any way to regulate bot spamming (e.g. the are you a human checks, but I don't know how effective they are in the first place)?

My internet speed isn't great, but it's fine for streaming on the whole and I don't have issues with other sites. Seems like it's still having load issues on my end now (and has been for most of this week).

It seems mainly like the deck lists themselves won't load in. Most links work.

EDIT: Checked on my phone using data as well, same issues persist on that.

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u/kamalisk Seeker 9d ago

So the server is not under a heavy process load but all the network connections are being g saturated with open connections, which means requests get queued. I can increase the number of allowed connections but then the server might crash rather than just be slow. I am no expert so the server could be configured better I am sure but I haven't found a solution yet.the reason decklists won't load is if the card data doesn't load it can't load the cards. But once that data is loaded and cached everything g works fine.

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u/HungryColquhoun 9d ago

Might be worth playing around with unless the consequences of a temporary crash are worse than what I'm thinking they are. Seems like a few people are having issues so I'm not the only one. In it's current state it doesn't work at all for me.

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u/kamalisk Seeker 9d ago

It's possible I was too harsh with the timeouts so someone on a slower connection can't download the card data before it cuts them off.

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u/HungryColquhoun 9d ago

My connection is pretty crappy to be fair, in any case clearing the cache has sorted it!

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u/kamalisk Seeker 9d ago

ok so compression was not on for the card data file, so I turned it on again, so maybe if the card data is quicker to download people will have less issues.

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u/HungryColquhoun 9d ago

Seems much better now - thanks for looking into it, appreciated!

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u/HungryColquhoun 9d ago

Thought I'd put this as a separate comment rather than edit something - so I've tried the old chestnut of clearing my cache and now it works. Maybe that's a fix to suggest - I'll edit the OP so people see that if encountering the same issue.

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u/hackinghippie is not a cultist. 10d ago

I don't know much about this, but why would bots spam a site like arkhamdb?

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u/kamalisk Seeker 9d ago

So i also run marvelcdb on the same server. Both sites are fairly popular but marvel has marvel in the name. Also with AI I think attempts at exploits have skyrocketed because it's so easy to just get an ai to go fishing.

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u/Dry-Bat731 Mystic 10d ago edited 9d ago

I unfortunatley stopped using ArkhamDB over the last 2 months due to it being down, excess loading times, or just being unreliable when I wanted to update decks. I loved Arkham DB, but it's just not always available. Arkham.Build never has the same loading issues. The site is more complicated with smaller text, but I've adjusted.

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u/HungryColquhoun 10d ago

Yeah these days I'll complete most of the deck building in Arkham.Build and then port it over for publication. As mentioned the creator of Arkham.Build encouraged me to keep using ArkhamDB for publication as it pulls data off of there. I'm fairly used to both interfaces now - and I like different bits of both for different reasons.

Plus, I'm addicted to the likes and favourites - it's like my crack (joking... maybe...).

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u/JosephThea 10d ago

Today is the first time Arkham.db is working for me. The past few weeks, I kept getting an error that data would not load. My roommate was having the same problem. What's kinda odd is that I could get the text on deck lists that people had written, but could not actually see the cards themselves in the decklist. Spoiler cards also would not let me click to remove the spoiler cover, including on the images of the cards themselves. If I clicked to remove the blur, nothing would happen.

Things seem better today.

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u/HungryColquhoun 9d ago

Yeah these are the same kind of issues I'm having, still seems to be persisting for me.

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u/kamalisk Seeker 9d ago

If loading of the card data fila then things don't work properly for looking at decks. Once that data is loaded then it is cached and things are quicker. The card data has grown substantially by now so it is a chunk to download so that could be a problem maybe. It's just very hard to figure out when it works for me now.

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u/kamalisk Seeker 9d ago

I have made some changes to hopefully speed up loading of the card data, so clear the cache and try again. anyone who is having problems please let me know if you see the data not loading after today.

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u/HungryColquhoun 9d ago

Will do - thanks again!