Staving off a bot swarm

Het is mogelijk dat er content op deze pagina staat welke door een machine is vertaald, waardoor er onnauwkeurigheden in deze taal kunnen bestaan.

Geplaatst op May 12, 2021

Many apologies for the lag and downtime this morning and afternoon! Around 10am PST, the site was swarmed by a horde of spam bots. There's always a few dozen spam bots we fend off every hour, but this was a spike almost verging on a denial of service attack.

I don't want to jinx anything, but the storm finally seems to be abating. The silver lining is that we're coming out on the other side with further strengthened site infrastructure.

To apologize to our supporting members who tried to access the site this morning and couldn't, I'm extending all active memberships by 3 days.

Thank you all for your patience during this.

Opmerkingen

Thedrawingdoge May 12, 2021 5:36am

I wonder what the bots did

Kim - Site admin May 12, 2021 8:10pm

Mostly tried to post spam comments that got filtered out before they were posted, or deleted promptly.

Jimm May 16, 2021 3:25pm

seems like a silly place to swarm with bots, but that's just me xD

Oregonian May 18, 2021 4:43am

I concur. However, I was having trouble with the website. I think it was down for a few hours.