Tap the eye. Then post in the rectangle that shows up.

 

Spoiler

It's not that hard. 

 

@maddog107 The site has been highly unstable for the past 48 hours. What's happening behind the scenes? 

15 minutes ago, Matt! said:

@maddog107 The site has been highly unstable for the past 48 hours. What's happening behind the scenes? 

someone is doing a DDOS attack on the website. They got a hold of our non public IPs and have been hitting them hard. Our provider has been able to mitigate the majority but the filters have to be adjusted every now and then based on the changes in the attack. 
 

sorry!

15 minutes ago, Matt! said:

@maddog107 The site has been highly unstable for the past 48 hours. What's happening behind the scenes? 

someone is doing a DDOS attack on the website. They got a hold of our non public IPs and have been hitting them hard. Our provider has been able to mitigate the majority but the filters have to be adjusted every now and then based on the changes in the attack. 
 

sorry!

24 minutes ago, maddog107 said:

someone is doing a DDOS attack on the website. They got a hold of our non public IPs and have been hitting them hard. Our provider has been able to mitigate the majority but the filters have to be adjusted every now and then based on the changes in the attack. 
 

sorry!

 

Oh that's bad.  Good luck! 

What's a DDOS attack?

2 hours ago, Grievous said:

What's a DDOS attack?

 

"A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic."

 

 

 

It seems like youtube videos aren't embedding?

 

 

1 hour ago, Cult Icon said:

It seems like youtube videos aren't embedding?

 

 

Can you try now? Thanks. 

14 minutes ago, maddog107 said:

Can you try now? Thanks. 

 

Yes, it works! Thanks!!!

18 hours ago, Grievous said:

What's a DDOS attack?

 

You should watch Mr Robot! Elliot has all the answers you need.

 

54 minutes ago, maddog107 said:

Can you try now? Thanks. 

 

Thanks

Can't upload photos at the moment. 

 

Error: 

 

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The activity bar seems to be disabled right now

It seems "Spoiler" is gone again.

18 hours ago, Matt! said:

Can't upload photos at the moment. 

 

Error: 

 

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We ran out of disk space earlier due to all the logging we enabled while we were under attack. I fixed it earlier today, can you please confirm? thanks. 

18 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

The activity bar seems to be disabled right now

 

Can you please check? Thanks. 

13 hours ago, WongDong said:

It seems "Spoiler" is gone again.

Please try now. 

4 hours ago, maddog107 said:

 

Can you please check? Thanks. 

The activity stream is back again!

6 hours ago, maddog107 said:

 

We ran out of disk space earlier due to all the logging we enabled while we were under attack. I fixed it earlier today, can you please confirm? thanks. 

 

Everything works now, thank you. Any details on where the attack was originated from?