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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Elbower_of_Quants ago
Trying to replace reddit with a website chock full of strange algorithms and code that makes zero sense? I'm noticing many oddities here which equals thousands of legit dudes/chicks wising up and realizing Putt code is shit. Nothing makes sense. You have thousands of old users on old accounts. And old rare accounts with some sort of bullshit crap connections can post up anywhere. Subverses are bubbles and posting is bubble. I'm on the verge of deleting shit here and never fucking ever returning. THERE is no outline conveying the central spirit and modus operandi of the sit. How the fucking shit works here. As it stands.. it doesn't. It is heavily manipulated and it is NOT user manipulated.
B3bomber ago
If you can code, help make it better. From what I know, several people have donated their time to said code already.