8chan.moe seems to decide to send me 404s as if I'm connecting with my real IP from Russia. I understand, Russia is blocked sitewide because Roskomfaggots have been trying to thoroughly ruin the internet for every ruskie for a decade, regular users like me are collateral damage, whatever, that's not news, we're used to it. So I've been using a personal Netherlands based VPS to connect to the site.
However, it still starts to send me 404s seemingly at random, for random amounts of time. I happily lurk for several hours, then I notice the thread stops updating, I F5 the page and I'm suddenly facing 404 errors for the next few hours. Then after some time I'm able to connect as normal even without going through the landing page where I have to accept the rules. After a few hours, the cycle repeats. No set time, no indication of what's happening, no clear pattern to it. What the hell is going on? Is my real IP leaking through somehow? Does 8moe get a sniff of a Russian-based cookie somewhere in my browser or something? Meanwhile, 8se loads about 95% of the time, sometimes failing to load for a few seconds, but otherwise working fine. 8cc doesn't load at all, I think.
On another note, 8se's auto updates inside threads are also randomly breaking on my end. Sometimes they work, sometimes they're delayed, sometimes there's a black circle near the checkbox at the bottom of the page that says "connecting to WS", sometimes the "Refresh" button kickstarts the thing for a while, sometimes it doesn't work at all. Also seemingly no pattern to it - except them not working most of the time - and it's happening only on 8se.