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! 🎉
Thanks for the work, happy birthday!
Thank you! Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! I’m using Voyager and experienced some issues and downtime as well. Sneaky bots.
Happy birthday! 🎂
Happy birthday! And thanks for working on that so quickly especially on your 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.
Suspicious timing considering that we have had a large reddit influx.
❤️
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…
Have a happy rest of your birthday sunaurus!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!! I hope it was a good one!
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)
