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The forum is being attacked.
It's a layer 7 attack, meaning a web application attack.
The requests look like this:
They nearly all originated from Sky broadband connections (which that IPv6 belongs to) and they have been reported to abuse@sky.com which is the abuse email for Sky http://bgp.he.net/ip/2a02:c7f:624:3500:a889:f9e4:656f:6ccf http://bgp.he.net/AS5607#_whois
We received between 30-60 HTTP requests per second for /today/?offset=25 from just before midnight BST through to my turning on CloudFlare this morning.
I'll be adding a rate limiter today to auto block such attacks in future, but in the meantime CloudFlare are handling it.