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Turned off alternate user interfaces temporarily (lemmy.today)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by mrmanager@lemmy.today to c/announcements@lemmy.today

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Hi guys,

Server has been quite slow the last couple of days, and it turns out its because the old.lemmy.today user interface was being hammered and scraped by bots. I turned them off now temporarily while i look into this.

In the mean time, enjoy a faster instance, hopefully.. :)

Edit: And the user interfaces are back online.

Now everyone is rate limited on their real ip before hitting any of the alternate user interfaces. This means the web server can protect against bots hammering the site.

Currently it looks like its working. Both the default web site and the alternate user interfaces are fast again. Give the alternate ones a try if you are using a web browser to access the site. :)

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[–] JawnZ@lemmy.today 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

btw, I just noticed that old.lemmy.world has a Cloudflare captcha check (not sure if it's only old or their main), I wonder if it's to deal with the bot scraping?

You mentioned IP rate limiting but it's possible that the CF-captcha could help

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We dont use cloudflare so thats a bit strange. Can you show a screenshot when that happens?

[–] JawnZ@lemmy.today 0 points 7 months ago

Probably difficult for me to capture, but I'm saying that WORLD is using the cloudflare captcha, so maybe an option to put on this instance?