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We can now publicly disclose that we have been experiencing a large-scale DDoS attack the last two days, which has been the reason for the site issues most users have been experiencing. The traffic load has been immense, at many times our normal load level, and the attack is still on-going. We are in constant contact with our providers to mitigate the attack as best as possible. We again apologize for the disruption to LiveJournal usage, and are working to get everything back to normal as soon as we can. Thank you!

Status Updated: 2:29 pm GMT (Wednesday, July 27)

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Best of luck to the lj staff, they must be drowning in caffeine...

best of luck to the lj team <3

Fuck the LJ staff.

To be fair to the LJ staff, I have nothing against them - DDoS attacks aren't exactly their fault. If one or more people are that determined to flood your service's bandwidth into the ground, there's only so much you can to prevent it. Quite often, you can only react once it is happening, which isn't ideal, but is the life of SysAdmins.

What I'm less impressed about is the delay in confirming their downtimem was due to a DDoS attack, but as has been noted elsewhere on DW, it's not a good idea to admit that a DDoS attack is happening to you "until you've got your mitigation protocol in place".

This. So hard. In the face.

That's... harsh. It's not their fault. Besides, the image of using forced fellatio as a kind of punishment is unsettling.

(Yes, 'fuck them' has similar connotations, but it's used so much that it seems to lose the secual meaning.)

Not their fault? Consider it karma.

And for what it's worth, "hard in the face" is a pretty common modifier added to statements, to say "I agree with this wholeheartedly". That you made it sexual is down to your own warped psychology.

It may be common in your peer group. I'd never heard it before.
And no, I don't think one needs a warped psychology to see something sexual in the words 'Fuck them.' 'So hard. In the face'. I mean, it's kinda hard to miss.

You yourself said that "fuck them" has lost sexual connotation. You reinserted the sexuality into the phrase when seeing mine. That was your interpretation, not my inflection.

This is a stupid thing to argue about.

So let's not! Just kindly don't assume that I have a warped psychology just because I took what you said literally. It's something that happens easily when you're talking in a foreign language.

Well, I hope that they can get the site back on track ASAP, but I wonder why it took them from Sunday night until Wednesday afternoon to "publicly disclose"?

http://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/34657.html?thread=741473#cmt741473 explains why.

Ah, cheers. I wasn't crying conspiracy against LJ, I was just genuinely baffled. That makes sense (though their mitigation clearly wasn't up to the assault it got)!