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!

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[-] gregs_gumption@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the work, happy birthday!

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] kestrelx@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Happy birthday!

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nice work! But remember, there are other instances, and as far as I know your users enjoy your services for free. Take it easy along the way.

[-] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm late (as always -_-), but happy birthday! 🎉

[-] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

❤️

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 3 weeks ago

Your name is a different color in my client. Why is that?

[-] aeharding@vger.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

bc I made your client

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No way…

Frantically looks up the app.

Wow. Ah, Nice job. Thanks. I spend a lot of time using it every day.

[-] notanapple@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

He is the CEO of lemmy.

[-] Fiction@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you! Happy birthday!

[-] turbulentMagma@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Are the bot checks interfering with third party apps? I have problems connecting with voyager but on browser it's fine after completing the bot checks

[-] revanite@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Same here. My android app and the front ends I use for the webpage can't connect to lemmee still.

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