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
view the rest of the comments →
nutria1966 ago
Good luck Putt! Let's see, 8Chan getting hit, Voat gets hit, "migrant" caravan en route to the US border just in time for the midterm elections. I think it's pretty safe to say there are other right-based sites being hit also, I just don't know about them. Coincidence? Methinks not. The left is desperate and they want to force some sort of decision from our President that they can use against him and the Right. I would not put it past these liberal lunatics to secretly hope for a blood-bath at the border of the "migrants" by the US. They'd have more "Orange Man Bad" fodder.