{"slug": "en-world-is-being-ddos-d-by-ai-bots", "title": "EN World Is Being DDoS'd by AI Bots", "summary": "EN World, a tabletop role-playing game news site, is suffering site slowdowns and outages from waves of up to 90,000 AI scraper bots that constantly rotate IP addresses to evade blocking, the site reported. The attack has run for over a month and has now reached levels the site cannot block, leaving only a handful of real users online compared with the usual couple hundred registered forum users and few thousand guests. EN World said it is working to block the bots and directed readers to its podcast and social channels while the site is down.", "body_md": "We are experiencing massive site slowdowns and outages due to constant waves of up to 90,000 AI bots scraping the site for content. We are working hard to block them, but its hard to keep up on an industrial scale like this. They've been at it for over a month, but it has reached levels that we can't block. Please be patient--we'll figure something out!\n\nNormally we'd expect a couple of hundred registered users online at a time using the forums, and a few thousand guests reading the news. \n\n*This*\n is what we're currently dealing with--90,000 AI scrapers, which constantly change IPs so we can't block them, and only a handful of actual people online, as nobody can access the site:\n\nWhile the site is closed, you can still catch up on recent TTRPG news in the latest episode of our podcast--\n\n[watch it on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgGgyhS5Gcc)\n or \n\n[listen to it on your podcatcher of choice](https://morrus.podbean.com/)\n! We bring you the news in lots of different ways so you can choose the medium you like!\n\nIn the meantime, we're also on socials:", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/en-world-is-being-ddos-d-by-ai-bots", "canonical_source": "https://www.enworld.org/", "published_at": "2026-09-23 01:20:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-23 01:53:45.706356+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-crawlers"], "entities": ["EN World"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/en-world-is-being-ddos-d-by-ai-bots", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/en-world-is-being-ddos-d-by-ai-bots.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/en-world-is-being-ddos-d-by-ai-bots.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/en-world-is-being-ddos-d-by-ai-bots.jsonld"}}