Eclipse Community

Did Eclipse Community intentionally remove the "Quick links" when not signed in?

From March 15th:

The-10-Pen wrote: *

07 May 2026, 20:42

Did Eclipse Community intentionally remove the "Quick links" when not signed in?

Yes. Guests now have limited access to some forum resources with the hope to reduce the overall slowness of the forum.
As seen in the popup at the top:


Actually, it seems to work. Crawlers and other AI bots are overloading the CPU of the server with too many simultaneous PHP queries, so it had to be done. And maybe more to come.

Ok, makes sense.
But kind of a bummer.
My bookmark to the site is: https://board.eclipse.cx/search.php?search_id=active_topics
Which now only sends me to a "you don't have access" page and forces me to login in just to see if I need to login.
Just a sign of the times, I suppose. I don't like bookmarking the "whole forum", I just need a LIST of ACTIVE TOPICS in chronological order.
ALL of my forums allow this, but now not Eclipse Community.
But yeah, pros versus cons, we were definitely experience VERY LONG delays and spinning circles when trying to access Eclipse.

The-10-Pen wrote: *

07 May 2026, 21:10

Just a sign of the times, I suppose.

Yes, I'm afraid it is. These people want the whole world for free and they don't care if they put your server on its knees.
I spit on them, and I'm being polite saying it like that.

The-10-Pen wrote: *

07 May 2026, 21:10

I just need a LIST of ACTIVE TOPICS in chronological order.

Maybe the RSS feed can help you: https://board.eclipse.cx/app.php/smartfeed/ui

Duke wrote: *

07 May 2026, 21:27

Maybe the RSS feed can help you: https://board.eclipse.cx/app.php/smartfeed/ui

Nope, doesn't help me any.
I visit the site every day. I really do not like sifting through all of the clutter and the ACTIVE TOPICS is a NORM on pretty much ALL forums.

I don't have to log into other forums just for access to an ACTIVE TOPICS chronological listing of posts.
Life really is VERY simple with that chronological list as my go-to bookmark.
I only have to read the top two or three or four before getting to a "I already read that one, I can exit the site now or log in to reply to one".

SAD SAD SAD sign of the times.
I get it, I do. It's just SAD that something I used to be able to get in literally 4 seconds now takes a full minute or so.

The-10-Pen wrote: *

07 May 2026, 21:38

I used to be able to get in literally 4 seconds now takes a full minute or so.

Logging in takes few seconds and it's not the end of the world

I'd think the RSS feed would be what you'd want. You could set it to a widget or just view the raw feed and use that to determine what's new. You could get an extension like this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-rss/ and point it to the RSS feed and have an easy button with notifications and a counter in your browser. almost like a bookmark.

Also you could just stay logged in? I keep my browser signed in, and I get annoyed when I get randomly signed out.

Every computer user has their own style, no style is "better" than the other.
My cache is completely emptied after each and every browser session.
I do not want the next session to "restore" tabs, I do not want the next session to have me logged in, et cetera.
To each their own. My computer, my rules.

Again, I get it. SAD. But I get it.