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If you experience issues or problems with this instance (lemmy.today), this is the place to discuss them. Or if you just want to ask questions about how something works. Anything related to the instance or lemmy itself.

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Bots overloading old.lemmy.today (lemmy.today)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's fine to not give an email address. It's just for the email to let you know that you were approved or denied. So if you put something random there and check if you can login later, it's all good.

I think it's even optional to give it... You can try registering without. :)

[–] mehquestion@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So just as an update, I checked both old.lemmy.today and lemmy.today; both seem to require an email address.

On lemmy.today is explicitly says email is required. On old.lemmy.today I tried fiddling around with various entries in the email field such as na, not_applicable, etc, but that didn't seem to work either.

Is there something obvious I'm missing?

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

No, I checked and we do require email. I wasnt sure what was set there but yep, its required. But just put any email address there if you dont want to use a real one. You just wont get an email with approval or denyal after account creation, so you have to come back later and try to log in at some point.

[–] mehquestion@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Cool thank you so much!