Paflyfish Updates Fall 2026

[DaveKile]

I did a full security review this week. Then added Cloudflare, a server security front end, for the last 24 hours with no security switches flipped. This morning I started blocking some of the international countries hammering the site. Please keep me posted if there are issues here as best you can.

Some of you have posted access issues prior to this. Some of these seem like a variety of OS, browsers, smartphone and personal software security protections. I will try to help with these after I get these international bots off the site. My security review didn't uncover any special blocking or restrictions to general users in the US, so I'm a little baffled as to what is stopping some of you with access or error problems.

 

[DaveKile]

An update since implementing the country blocking filtering service. I have filtered out about 20 of the top countries with bots on the site. Mostly Asian locations, but obvious other bad actors. There were many countries in Europe that I ended up blocking due to their traffic volume as part of the list. I bring this up because many people who use a VPN that routes their origin from Europe my find their VPN not working with the site. Please switch your VPN to a US location for access. I am not blocking VPN's just countries.