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Turned off alternate user interfaces temporarily (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[–] admiralpatrick@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's a very common thing with Mlmym, and a lot of instances have that issue. It's also hard to rate-limit because all client connections to the API come from Mlmym's server rather than the users.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 5 points 5 days ago

Yeah that was the exact issue. I figured I could just forward the real ip from the incoming connection to the container, but couldnt get it to work.

There must be a way, I will keep looking.