How I Think about Site Attacks
We are in the midst of getting hit right now by some attacks. We are working really hard at fixing it right now. Our programmers keeps knocking these things down, so then these guys try a new strategy. This is not new. We've been doing this for years now. I've had a lot of time to think about this. Here are some thoughts that help me cope when these things happen:
1. These guys don't attack sites that don't matter. We are actually doing a lot of good here and trying to change the world. The energy they utilize to try to knock us down is evidence that we are succeeding.
2. Stress is good. Nobody likes dealing with stress, but it forces you to cope and it makes you stronger. We've implemented hundreds of fixes to protect our community. When we implement fixes it keeps more bad guys out. We are doing that same thing now and after tonight, we'll be much more stronger than we were earlier today.
3. Attacks unify us. They make us stronger. I don't think this is something attackers really understand, otherwise they'd stop. I look at this as an opportunity for us to become a stronger and more unified community.
Please really think on these things with me. We'll have this figured out soon. We'll be stronger on the other side and even more unstoppable than we were before!
rekt
https://blazingfast.io
This is a protection, it works and helps!
@oAlex
yep. They also love to protect pretty much any unlawful activity you want!
cloudflare, nfo, Incapsula, akamai are the best in this situation. Akamai being the best since it can tank pretty much anything
Thank you Glen for the information. I was getting a little bit frustrated because today is the perfect day for me to do a bunch of listening hours and the site is being really slow and sometimes not letting me respond to members/guests. But those three points are good points and are helping me understand the situation better
I've also told them that
"to see this room refresh, you may have to go from this room to another and then back again"
Currently the app seems to be working better than the desktop site.
Update - seems we are in the clear again. Thanks for rallying everyone!
@GlenM thank you for the hardwork everyone ❤️
I don't know about you but I'm
@CallmeWHATEVERyouwant
Sorry to hear this. Ultimately, this is what the attackers want. I believe this site can be impervious to attacks not by the nature of our technology (though we are working on that daily), but rather by the nature of our community and our resistance to being psychologically influenced. I fully believe we can work together and support each other during these times, in a way that doesn't just make these attacks pointless, but rather beneficial. At the end of the day, we're all here for each other, and its rather reassuring. So let's not get to down or angry about random acts that have been around since the start of the internet. Who has time for that in our day? :)
@ezraBC--very well said! We cannot give people who wish to give harm that kind of power over us (IMO).
@CallmeWHATEVERyouwant
Kek, Y Tho?
a great tech team who made a wonderful work for getting the site back!
and a very great community who is stayed strong despite the bugs and difficulties!
you all you are wonderful! love always win and you are the proof of it!
Thank you all! This experience just made us stronger as community!
Hi :^) 
I'm not quite clear on what these attacks are. Can someone please clarify for me?
@LovedDove earlier we had a number of site attacks that are now resolved.
@GlenM alright... I got that much, I just don't really understand what you mean by "attacks"
@LovedDove
basically they set up an automated process to request hundreds of connections, flooding our general request queue with zombie guests.
to defend ourselves we had to recognize the "bot" traffic and separate it out.
does that help?
@KrinkTheMellowUnicorn yes! thank you
@LovedDove
thanks for asking! it's easy for us to lapse into techie jargon without being as clear as we mean to be.