Hi, I run the Lemmy instance over at https://compuverse.uk I seem to be getting spammed with literally thousands of incoming activity requests (primarily coming in from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml). (I measured about 1 new request ever 0.01 -> 0.02 seconds)

The error message in the Lemmy logs is very unhelpful, giving 0 detail about the actual error itself.

The UUIDs in the activities seem to be all unique, rather than duplicates. Does anybody have any idea what's going on and why there is such a large torrent of requests coming in?

This was so bad it essentially caused a DoS attack on my instance, and brought it down. I have had to move the PostgreSQL server onto a more powerful machine in order to keep up with the request rate!

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated :)

Thanks,

Cameron

eTail.market currently have both of the recent Spider-Man games currently on offer, according to IsThereAnyDeal, these are the lowest prices currently available for the games.

Could be a good time to grab them if you haven't already :)

Hi all!

In order to give people automated access to loads of game deals, I've created the CompuVerse Deals Bot!

This bot will automatically post new deals as they come in from https://isthereanydeal.com!

To try to keep the quality of the bot's posts at least moderately good, there are a few limits in place.

The bot will only post deals which follow these rules:

• Offer title is at least 30% off
• Offer title has at least 75% positive reviews on Steam
• Offer title is not a DLC

The bot will automatically post the highest cut it has found in the title of the post, along with Steam review scores for the game.

The main body of each post will consist of basic review information on the game, and then a table listing current best known prices in GBP, USD and EUR (other currencies can be added in future if this is something people are interested in!)

I hope you find the bot useful.

Please let me know any suggestions or improvements you may have regarding this bot :)

Thanks,

Cameron

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/453

This is the lowest price the collection has ever been! Well worth grabbing if you can :)