There was another attack going on (as you might have noticed). We’re working on a fix. In the meantime, we’ve blocked the listing of comments, so we at least aren’t down, but it did break comments.

Hope to have a fix in the next hour. Stay tuned!

Update OK we’ve implemented a fix, again many thanks to @sunaurus@lemm.ee for his assistance. This will prevent the outages we’ve seen last couple of days. Let’s see what they will come up with next…

  • Bleeping LobsterEnglish
    111•2 years ago

    I’m sure it must be frustrating to have to deal with these attacks, but in a sense they’re a signifier of how popular / successful this instance is.

    Thanks for all the work you do on it, Ruud.

  • ssillyssadass
    49•2 years ago

    I’m getting kinda tired of these attacks. Is some loser from 4chan not getting enough attention from mommy?

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦
    21•2 years ago

    The attack today was wild, someone kept hammering lemmy.world for like 4~5 hours straight. Where do the attacks come from? Maybe also report to law enforcement? (even though practically speaking the chances that they are going to do something about it are very slim)

    Hexbear started making a big deal out of the defederation by lemmy.world today on their instance and it’s possible that their script kiddies might have felt the need to retaliate.

  • izzent
    21•2 years ago

    You won’t see this, but thanks for working on the fix!

    • GONADS125
      5•2 years ago

      Really ramped up after the alt-right extremists on exploding heads were defederated from. There was also turmoil yesterday with the announcement that lemmy.world won’t federate with hexbear, and a lot of the users of that instance employ some shady tactics to influence and astroturf. Or it could just be some dumb troll. Who knows?..

    • @The_v@lemmy.world
      4•2 years ago

      1. Because their mommy was mean to them today - (told them to take a shower).

      2. Because their hot pockets burned their mouths.

      3. Because they have a micropenis.

      4. Because they see themselves as helping make the site better.

      • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦
        1•2 years ago

        permalinks to comments seem to be broken for me right now (worked a few minutes ago)

        EDIT: now they’re working again, seems to have been just a temporary thing

        EDIT 2: actually it does happen again, it’s random and quite rare

      • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
        0•2 years ago

        The links still work for me?

        Good for you. :D Sadly, it’s the same for me as for AlmightySnoo: Yesterday evening it worked for me, now it doesn’t. And when it worked “Show context” didn’t link to the parent comment, just to itself.

        Seems to work fine on https://a.lemmy.world/ so I gonna use that for now.

  • BitOneZero @ .world
    4•2 years ago

    @ruud@lemmy.world and @sunaurus@lemm.ee

    I added some self-awareness of concurrency to the Lemmy API Rust logic: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3805/files - this should allow a more standard in-band response to concurrency slow-response server overloads. Keywords (‘woodstocksnoopy’ as watchdog, and even more alarming keyworld to find in your logs: ‘SITE_OVERLOAD’) were added to the logging to make it explicit when this is happening.

    @sunaurus@lemm.ee

    • GONADS125
      2•2 years ago

      Wouldn’t surprise me honestly, but these have been going on since before the hexbear announcement. I would say it’s rather convenient timing, but in reality these attacks have been very frequent so it is likely a coincidence. I’d wager more on the alt-right neonazis from exploding heads being the responsible party.

      • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
        4•2 years ago

        I’d wager more on the alt-right neonazis from exploding heads being the responsible party.

        Putin has both the far-right and pseudo-communists in his pocket to be part of his evangelization troll army. There’s no much difference between the camps, just the coat they wear.