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Site Slowdown Issues (December 2025) - Chinese AI bot DDoS

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Submitted by John T. Haller on December 15, 2025 - 12:38pm

There have been some site slowdown issues in the last week. They often appear as the browser negotiating a TLC connection longer than usual, especially on a first connection to the site. This will either take far longer than necessary or timeout. This is unrelated to previous server downtime issues. It may be related to an increase in traffic due to AI bot scraping or similar. I'm working with Rackspace on log analysis as the issue has persisted even while we increase the workers available to processing connection.

Legacy Apps For Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 32-bit

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Submitted by John T. Haller on October 31, 2022 - 8:19pm

I'm working on adding legacy builds of our officially-released apps that have dropped support for Windows XP, Vista, or 7 to the base app homepages. The goal is to make them easier to find for folks on legacy systems. I'm listing out completed packages and packages that are being researched and built below. The packages are designed to install alongside your main app installs and won't be updated to the latest version - breaking compatibility with your legacy OS - by the PA.c Platform. We don't need copies of any of the apps listed, thanks.

Outdated Official Portable Applications

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Welcome to the PortableApps.com outdated apps tracker. Please post a comment for any outdated official apps that aren't already listed with AppName Version as the title (no dashes, Vs or other text). Before posting a request, please make sure that their stable Windows build is available and they have been announced by their publisher (just being available on a download/ftp server, SourceForge, github, or 3rd party site doesn't count as the app may not yet be official). Comments will be deleted as they are added.

Veracrypt Dev In Need of Help

Submitted by SGB74 on April 8, 2026 - 3:45am

Not sure if these types of post are allowed here but for those who use portableapps or veracrypt in particular the developer is in need of some assistance to keep the project going.

I'll link the post he made recently regarding the project status below here and if anyone can direct him to the proper channels or provide some helpful information for him, I'm more than sure he and the FOSS community will greatly appreciate it!

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CamStudio 3.x Question

Submitted by SGB74 on April 5, 2026 - 12:46am

I see that CamStudio 3.X is listed under the section of apps that have either changed their license to commercial, time limited shareware or MS store exclusive and will not be updated. But when I visit their website it states the software is released under the GNU license. Their FAQs also state the application is free to use, no paywalls, or subscription fees. And lastly to acquire the app it states all you need to do is download the .exe and launch it.

rss reader with showing mails or newsletters as feed?

Submitted by UpdateInformer on February 28, 2026 - 3:49pm

i heard there is at least one rss reader out there that can show mails or newsletters.
not sure how it works but it is possible to omit newsletters by mail, you can use theme directly in the feed reader.
hope for tips and maybe one of ours here can it and you use it.
give tips
thx
ps
i couldnt decide if general or apps section is better, done stone me

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