New feature: downtime

General Discussions
#1

JGO just came back after a minor ddos-attack (only a handful of IP addresses, but still…)

I don’t really care about uptime, so I took the webserver down to investigate.

It’s really trivial to bring down an Apache server by just flooding it with requests, so I wonder what they are trying to prove here. :wink:

Now going to add a few scripts that will put IPs in the firewall if they send ‘undesirable’ amounts of traffic.

#2

Oh snap. I better stop reading the forum so much.

#3

Some how attacking a forum full of programmers doesn’t seem to be a good idea… maybe that’s just me. Not a forum of hackers though, that would be worse ;D

#4

tweaks rss feed reader settings

#5

Ok, so which JGO member is posting anti-wikileaks comments… Ban the culprit!

#6

I also added the ‘Reply’ button, next to ‘Quote’, to hopefully get rid of those needless (nested) quotes, which will also reduce the amount of downtime.

#7

…snipped quote…
…snipped quote…
…snipped quote…

I didn’t see a reply button next to the quote button?

#8

#9

I also do not see the reply button next to quote

#10

How about now?

#11

Riven, I see it now :slight_smile:

I didn’t see it before.

edit:
though I feel like the fact that you can hit reply to a specific message, that it should still add something, at least like

Riven or >Riven #9
or some identifier automatically as to which you had replied too specifically.

#12

Does it work?

#13

Eh, no.

#14

If you want to quote somebody or refer to another post, just hit ‘quote’.

I was simply getting tired of all the quotes that referred to the last reply.

#15

But what happens if the reply directly refers to the last reply ;D

#16

I don’t really get the funny part of the joke, but let’s state the obvious and say replies are inherently referring to the previous message, unless it contains quotes.

#17

Although not necessarily at these forums but I usually assume a reply with no indication of who it is too is directed at the OP. However I typically read all threads start to finish on this and other favorite forums, so not a real issue for me personally.

#18

Could you make the reply button quote only the message you’re quoting, but not nested quotes?

#19

I’m working on it :slight_smile:

I also just waged magic in SMF to speed it up again. You guys are reading way too many pages! I brought CPU time of mysql back from 80% to 4% after quite a few hours of profiling. I hope I’ll forget about this PHP hackery session soon. :persecutioncomplex:

#20

Okay, I added a hook to the Post functionality, that demands that at least 10% of new posts is content you have written yourself.