DDoS attacks

[Red Squirrel]

Someone keeps DDoSing the forum every now and then, which is quite comical considering how dead this place is. No idea why they are even bothering.

If you notice the forum is slow or offline this is why. It is a hard one to mitigate as it comes from millions of unique IPs that blend in with regular traffic. I would put more effort into stopping this if this was an active forum but honestly not worth my time so will just wait it out, eventually they'll get bored.

If it doesn't stop I will convert forum to a static read only forum that will only really be kept around for historical sake.

[Red Squirrel]

Normally not crazy about incorporating 3rd party services as it adds complexity but decided to setup Cloudflare.

That seems to have solved the issue for now.

[Red Squirrel]

Tried to disable the bot verification but immediately the DDoS started again. Not sure what kind of loser is trying to attack this completely dead forum, but it's actually pretty comical tbh.

[Red Squirrel]

I've been playing around with stuff if you wonder why there's been lot of errors.

Had to remove cloudflare as it was causing issues with something unrelated to forum but think it's solved, will re-add it soon.