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Bots overloading old.lemmy.today (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by mrmanager@lemmy.today to c/lemmytoday@lemmy.today

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Hi,

We had a DDOS attack against old.lemmy.today which overloaded the entire server for about 20 minutes. I had to turn off old.lemmy.today temporarily and will look through logs and probably block more chinese ip ranges, since thats where it came from.

Always something to do. :) Keeping this as sticky for a while to inform everyone.

Edit: I added more ip blocks for Chinese networks and hopefully it will keep future bots away. Bringing up the old.lemmy.today user interface again...

Edit 2: Had to take it down again due to massive bot scraping. Currently down.

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[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Alright, https://old.lemmy.today/ is back up, as well as the other alternative user interfaces mentioned in the sidebar.

I have blocked more chinese ip ranges found in the log files, so hopefully it helps.

[–] mschae@discuss.mschae23.de 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

While you're here, I published a small update yesterday (26.3.4) that fixes a few more bugs I've found :)

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

Very good, I pulled the latest version.

Thanks for your work on this, and the code you added to forward ip numbers was super useful today to see where these botnets are coming from. Really appreciate it.

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks to both of you for keeping mlmym alive. It's the best way to use Lemmy and I moved to lemmy.today primarily because they have it as an available interface.

[–] somebody_to_love@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks to both of you!

Now that you’re both here, I have a question/request. What I love most from the “old Reddit” interface is using RES to navigate through posts with the keyboard: “h” to hide, j/k as up/down, “l” to open in a new tab, etc. Makes browsing super fast and efficient.

Is this something you’d consider? I’m not asking for a full RES reimplementation, of course. Just the keyboard navigation.

[–] mschae@discuss.mschae23.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I know of the lemmy keyboard navigation addon that reimplements this feature for lemmy-ui and mlmym. I haven't tested it myself though, and it's been last updated over a year ago, so I don't know if it still works. I have thought about including the feature directly in mlmym (could actually make use of the keyboard navigation setting that lemmy already has to toggle it), but if I do, that'll only happen after I'm done with the refactor for the v4 API. So it will probably take a while 😅

edit: opened an issue for it (#27) so I don't forget

[–] somebody_to_love@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you so much!