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!
Thanks for the work, happy birthday!
I’m late (as always -_-), but happy birthday! 🎉
Thank you! Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! And thanks for working on that so quickly especially on your birthday.
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.
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…
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.
Suspicious timing considering that we have had a large reddit influx.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! I’m using Voyager and experienced some issues and downtime as well. Sneaky bots.
Have a happy rest of your birthday sunaurus!
We saw a brief similar traffic spike approximately an hour ago, but it dropped off pretty quick. It seemed to focus on our mlmym front end and briefly overloaded our backends for a minute.
All the suspicious ips I’ve checked so far, are owned by chinese cloud providers (huawei, alibaba, tencent, etc)
Happy birthday! Thanks for all your hard work.
