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! And thanks for working on that so quickly especially on your birthday.
Happy birthday!
Thanks for the work, happy birthday!
Just enjoy your birthday! Sweet 21.
Really, they’re 21 and managing such a large instance? Impressive. Is that true?
Definitely not 😄
Well you don’t look a day over 21…
Well, happy birthday! Sucks about this…
Thank you! Happy birthday!
Thank you for taking time out of your birthday to get lemm.ee back online. I hope the rest of your day goes great. Happy Birthday!
❤️
Your name is a different color in my client. Why is that?
bc I made your client
No way…
Frantically looks up the app.
Wow. Ah, Nice job. Thanks. I spend a lot of time using it every day.
He is the CEO of lemmy.
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! 🥳
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.
Happy birthday! 🎂
Are the bot checks interfering with third party apps? I have problems connecting with voyager but on browser it’s fine after completing the bot checks
Same here. My android app and the front ends I use for the webpage can’t connect to lemmee still.
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 ?
It seems this borked access for third party apps and the different front ends for Lemmy webpage. It is just showing network error
Happy birthday!
