They've come for us. Again. (announcements)

submitted ago by PuttItOut

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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goodbyehorses ago

I'm not technical at all, but would donations help you maintain/upgrading/whatever your servers? If so; where can I donate? Can't navigate to "donate" on the voat store

MadWorld ago

Voat's merchandise was shut down long ago, likely some jews/shills here reported to take down Voat's payment processor. You could ask @PeaceSeeker (a Voat Historian) for help if you have any questions. I think he knows Voat very well.

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