That'd be sweet. I'm in Germany and so far none of the apps work. Just using my phones browser at this point.

I'm still working to relax the restrictions.. unfortunately it's very difficult to differentiate legitimate users traffic from the bots.

It looks like I'm leaving. I'm in Singapore and the site is almost unusable. Thanks for a great 2 years. It's been a pleasure.

Way faster. Thank you for fixing it

Much improved compared to earlier today. Many thanks for your work.

Snappy on laptop and phone. Thanks!

How is everyone finding AZ performance for the last hour or so?

I've expanded the cloudflare challenges to all non Australian requests. This has made a massive impact.. I'll look at ways to relax this tonight.

For now users outside Australia will receive a cloudflare challenge in their browser. Lemmy apps will likely not function.

Yes, amongst other things.

We're behind Cloudflare, right? Do we have their new AI blocking features enabled?

Possibly. It'd be a terrible way to get that data if so. You could just spin up a Lemmy instance and federate with all of Lemmy far easier than trying to scrape all the web front-ends. Also, we try to fly under the radar from the Internet a bit. We opt out of Google searches, Amazon, Apple and GPTBot for example.

While our data is all human-generated (attractive), we're a pretty small userbase. There are shinier web sites to scrape than us.

Think it's the same AI scraping crap everyone is getting smashed by?

And more stuff blocked today. Lemmy seems to be drawing more and more attention from various misbehaved bots/scrapers etc.

That's the worst kind of traffic

Generic, non-lemmy traffic.

I noticed comments have been very slow to load recently. Guessing this was the issue.

Ty Lodion. May I ask if it was malicious generic traffic or malicious lemmy-api-targeted traffic?

Appreciate your hard work ❤️

Good stuff :)

I was wondering whether it was a backend issue which can be fixed but if it's malicious traffic :(

was hoping to get some stats out of grafana but it doesn't go down to the minute

might try and keep a record here if it happens again

ok not going crazy

https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/ddf6tkyd7itc0e/outbound-federation-health?orgId=1&var-instance=aussie.zone&var-remote_instance=All&var-remote_software=All&var-instance_seen_cutoff=43200&var-min_activities_behind=1000&var-max_activities_behind=2000000&from=1753601185243&to=1753606710492

In that case I'll count myself lucky that I looked away at the right time.

it's back now, was down about 20 minutes ago

I haven't noticed any problems here.

I'm here. Things seem to load fine, haven't tried to upload any posts though.