Hi,
We had a DDOS attack against old.lemmy.today which overloaded the entire server for about 20 minutes. I had to turn off old.lemmy.today temporarily and will look through logs and probably block more chinese ip ranges, since thats where it came from.
Always something to do. :) Keeping this as sticky for a while to inform everyone.
Edit: I added more ip blocks for Chinese networks and hopefully it will keep future bots away. Bringing up the old.lemmy.today user interface again…
Edit 2: Had to take it down again due to massive bot scraping. Currently down.


Thanks to both of you!
Now that you’re both here, I have a question/request. What I love most from the “old Reddit” interface is using RES to navigate through posts with the keyboard: “h” to hide, j/k as up/down, “l” to open in a new tab, etc. Makes browsing super fast and efficient.
Is this something you’d consider? I’m not asking for a full RES reimplementation, of course. Just the keyboard navigation.
I know of the lemmy keyboard navigation addon that reimplements this feature for lemmy-ui and mlmym. I haven’t tested it myself though, and it’s been last updated over a year ago, so I don’t know if it still works. I have thought about including the feature directly in mlmym (could actually make use of the keyboard navigation setting that lemmy already has to toggle it), but if I do, that’ll only happen after I’m done with the refactor for the v4 API. So it will probably take a while 😅
edit: opened an issue for it (#27) so I don’t forget
Thank you so much!