cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8510194

Hi, its me. robot_dog_with_gun made a good point mentioning the main post this is crossposted from is on the hexbear only channel, so I'm rolling the post up, finding a bottle to stuff it in, and throwing it into the dead sea of souls that is the internet hoping some other lost bears come across it.

So I'm up front about this, I am not a tech nerd. I really don't know what goes on in the programing side of things or how to really troubleshoot things. Hell, me figuring out how to make a bridge in my overstuffed local disk C: file to another SSD so I can keep my PC alive was a miracle that took over a month of fooling around to get it to work. (please tech people don't grill me about this I don't know why or how it worked, it just does lol) So I'm gonna say, if you have any questions, all i can do is forward them and wait for a response. In other words I'm a messenger pidgeon.

anyways, the current game plan for people that can't get into the bear site according to the techies is as follows:

"For anyone still having issues please try hexbear.net/login "

or

" try refreshing the page (or closing your browser app entirely and reloading) if it doesn't go away on its own. This may just be a problem from during the outage that your browser has cached. "

Thats all from me.

Good luck and semper post

Hello Bearsite afficionados

As you've probably noticed, the site has been struggling for the last little bit and has been almost entirely down today. We are dealing with a flood of traffic resembling a DDoS (although the scale is not huge), which knocks over the weakest link in the system, the lemmy-ui container.

Mitigation efforts are under way and the site will hopefully be fully back soon. For the moment, logged in users and app users should be able to use the site, but it may be up and down as mitigations are put in place.

Thanks for your understanding

EDIT 01:22 Moscow Time:

We appear to be stable with the new mitigations in place. You may (or may not) see an anubis browser challenge during initial pageload. I've tried to make it relatively unobtrusive. If you have a use case that anubis breaks or feel it is misconfigured, let myself or CARCOSA know.