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Bots overloading old.lemmy.today (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 13 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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[–] 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 20 hours ago

Thank you so much!