Buckle up. Voat is currently being hit with a malicious attack. This couldn't have possibly happened at a worse time for me personally and I may have to put Voat into lockdown mode or even set it to Read Only. Perhaps we will resurrect the
bit privilege checking goat (you know you miss having your bits privilege checked).
I'm hoping that the code is in a good enough place to handle a majority of the incoming traffic, but expect slow responses.
I will try my best to keep Voat online. Wish me luck.
Edit:
I'm still waiting for the main attack. Every DDOS we've been hit with before follows a pattern of probing exploits, quiet time, then the full attack. So we will see, but waiting is the hardest part
Edit 2:
As of now I feel they've postponed. After taking us down two times the morning of this announcement, I've seen no further activity. A temporary win I suppose.
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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OricaTonithos ago
Methinks that some of the newsworthy links and items that appear here have become sources for conservative news feeds.
Needless to say, we are part of the "pulse" that they are trying to snuff out during the days before the election. When joos can't throw soldiers at their troubles, they'll throw money.... in this case, they're throwing money at leftist hacker dens.
Geranium_Lily ago
Yes I often wonder where Tucker Carlson lurks.... it's all those under-the_breath toss-aways...