Seeing what appears to be a distributed scrape or AZ coming from multiple network from multiple overseas locations. From what I can tell predominantly bon English speaking countries.
I’ve had to be pretty heavy handed with the catpcha challenges for those countries for now. It seems to have helped, will keep an eye on things. Hopefully not too much collateral damage to legitimate users…
I’ve expanded the cloudflare challenges to all non Australian requests. This has made a massive impact… I’ll look at ways to relax this tonight.
For now users outside Australia will receive a cloudflare challenge in their browser. Lemmy apps will likely not function.
It looks like I’m leaving. I’m in Singapore and the site is almost unusable. Thanks for a great 2 years. It’s been a pleasure.
I’m still working to relax the restrictions… unfortunately it’s very difficult to differentiate legitimate users traffic from the bots.
That’d be sweet. I’m in Germany and so far none of the apps work. Just using my phones browser at this point.
I’ve made further changes… what app do you usually use? Worth trying again now, please let me know how it goes.
I use jerboa. I have just tried and it seems like it’s working. Cheers. I’ll keep you posted if things change though.
Thanks for the hard work mate.
Thanks, that confirms some of the changes I’ve made are working.
Dang, perhaps time to start singapore.zone? (I jest, it’s unfortunate that a few bad actors ruin it for everyone)