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!
Happy Birthday! I’m using Voyager and experienced some issues and downtime as well. Sneaky bots.
Happy Birthday!! I hope it was a good one!
Happy birthday!
Have a happy rest of your birthday sunaurus!
Thanks for the work, happy birthday!
No problem, thanks as always for the hard work, and belated happy birthday!
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.
It seems this borked access for third party apps and the different front ends for Lemmy webpage. It is just showing network error
Suspicious timing considering that we have had a large reddit influx.
Thank you! Happy birthday!
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!
Happy birthday! And thanks for working on that so quickly especially on your birthday.
Happy birthday!
