Steam Sale 2023 popularity overloads the SteamDB website

SteamDB is no stranger to handling massive amounts of traffic, the site is used daily by many gamers to track the latest statistics on Steam. But it seems
Steam Sale 2023 popularity overloads the SteamDB website: Users have managed to flood the website so fast it tripped a security mechanism.

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