September 29, 2026: We have been seeing more sophisticated bot attacks bypassing our safeguards over the last few weeks. If the site is very slow or even appears to be down, bot attacks are most likely to blame. We are looking into ways to address the issue.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Thursday, August 20, 2026
August 19/20 2026 bot attacks
We are currently under attack by bots. The attacks are intermittent and last from minutes to hours. Response times may be poor until they are over.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
2026-02-12 downtime
The ISFDB Web site came under a concentrated bot attack on Thursday, February 12, 2026 around 6am server (EST) time. We began deploying countermeasures in the afternoon. It may take another 24 hours or so for the new settings to be set up and propagated across the internet. Sorry about the interruption!
2026-02-13 9:05am EST update: The countermeasures have been deployed and the site is back up.
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