Hey folks!
For the past few hours, lemm.ee has been bombarded with abnormal (almost definitely automated) traffic from a range of different IP addresses. This managed to overwhelm our servers, and we were offline for the past hour or so.
I was in the middle of celebrating my birthday, so response was a bit slow, but I believe we are recovering now, with mitigations in place to try and prevent further issues. Some of you may be inconvenienced by some bot checks when you browse lemm.ee, I am sorry about that, but it’s necessary for now.
Sorry for the issues and I hope you have a nice weekend ahead!
I’m late (as always -_-), but happy birthday! 🎉
Happy birthday!!! <3
Have a happy rest of your birthday sunaurus!
Suspicious timing considering that we have had a large reddit influx.
It seems this borked access for third party apps and the different front ends for Lemmy webpage. It is just showing network error
I’m curious about steps you took in reaction to this, of course if sharing compromises the mitigation then by all means, you don’t have to
and/or also how do you learn about managing attacks like these ?
Happy birthday! 🎂
We’ve been dealing with these too at lemmy.ml, don’t sweat it, we’ll figure it out. Happy bday! Hope it was a good one.
No problem, thanks as always for the hard work, and belated happy birthday!
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Happy Birthday!! I hope it was a good one!
Happy Birthday! I’m using Voyager and experienced some issues and downtime as well. Sneaky bots.
Huh, I hope it wasn’t me with my constant Summit (Lemmy client) refreshes (I was having issues with that app so I was doing a lot of API requests I guess) 🤣
Happy birthday! 🥳
Happy birthday! Thanks for all your hard work.
Well, happy birthday! Sucks about this…
