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More AZ issues 19/8/25 (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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Seeing what appears to be a distributed scrape or AZ coming from multiple network from multiple overseas locations. From what I can tell predominantly bon English speaking countries.

I've had to be pretty heavy handed with the catpcha challenges for those countries for now. It seems to have helped, will keep an eye on things. Hopefully not too much collateral damage to legitimate users....

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[–] skribe@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've made further changes... what app do you usually use? Worth trying again now, please let me know how it goes.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use jerboa. I have just tried and it seems like it's working. Cheers. I'll keep you posted if things change though.

Thanks for the hard work mate.

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Thanks, that confirms some of the changes I've made are working.

[–] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Dang, perhaps time to start singapore.zone? (I jest, it's unfortunate that a few bad actors ruin it for everyone)