this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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A lot of bots were spamming the instance which was causing an IO bottleneck, and thus timeout issues. We're looking into solutions to limit their impact, such as rate-limiting users. We're trying to do it in such a way that it doesn't impact regular users which is why it's taking a bit longer.
Awesome, thanks for the update. You guys rock.
Not in the sense of the other servers that were overtaken by botswarms. But there have been a handful of bots recently.
It's hard to get a bot onto this instance, but not impossible. Once they're on here, they can spam out nonsense as fast as the server can take it (hence the rate-limiting solution).
Yea, rate-limiting per user instead of per IP might be a bit more complicated.
Appreciate the work y'all put into this.
You guys seem to handle fine, but if you need to toss a few ideas at a network engineer, ping me.
Thank you!