Catching up from the last maintenance update, where I fend off some bots: Well some bots are imitating normal browsers and continue to hit the website at a high rate. Looks like we are playing cat-and-mouse games with each other. I've now deployed another approach to find out the worst offenders and block their entire ASN. You can fake the user agent, change your IP address but switching to another autonomous system ain't that easy if not impossible. There might be some collateral damage, i.e. if you encounter a "429 Too Many Requests" message you're unfortunately tied to the same currently blocked ASN.
However this is just a test for the time being and I'm going to evaluate the outcome. Maybe I'll block single IP addresses instead if this is not feasable. But I can tell you one thing: That Yandex bot is nuts!

Nevertheless I've taking care of other issues, too: Images have started to be missing quite a lot. Turns out, Steam has changed the way how game and DLC logos are stored. Same applies to its lazy loading of badges. It's all fixed now and images are successively fetched again.

To top things off, I've added some more interactive tooltips instead of simple titles with a longer delay to show up. Tooltips are now displayed much faster in a more direct way. Hope you like it!

Merry X-mas and and a happy New Year for 2026!

The website is running fine and stable since the last maintenance update, so enjoy a happy and festive achievement hunting!

BTW we also hit another milestone and are now tracking over 3 million achievements!

Hey everyone,

believe it or not, but I found some time to work on AchStats. As you might experienced the website was hard to reach lately. This was caused by massive (AI) bot onslaught literally farming our database. I've now taken measures against all bots and the site seems to be usable again!

On another note, we had a partnership with Game DB aka Global Steam in the past and someone suggested to link SteamDB instead. That's also done and you can view profiles, games and badges directly at steamdb.info.

Until next time!

We're currently experiencing server outages. We're working to resolve the issue and will keep you posted!

Merry X-mas everyone and a happy New Year for 2025!