Captain's Log

[Lou]

I'm not sure, it could be a bit random (script kiddies testing out the power of their network of infected computers) or it could be someone who's out to get us either because they don't like veganism or because something specific that's posted on the forum. Or even a combination of those.

My imagination creates this vision of cartoon adolescent robots wandering around and just randomly attacking things for no good reason. they don't even see this as a "vegan forum". More like bubble wrap.

 

[Second Summer]

Seems like the Search function is broken

Yes, that is a deliberate choice, sorry. I turned off the component that's serving it because it takes a lot of memory which was needed to combat the attack. I might turn it back on again tomorrow (Sunday) at some point.

I've started it up again now, and the search seems to be working again.

 

[Second Summer]

I got myself blocked earlier today when I posted an image! (Well, it was only the link to an image, but still!)

So, looks like I need to tweak the configuration a bit more! Sorry about this, I'm sure others must have experienced the same thing.

 

[Second Summer]

I've tweaked some settings again, hopefully things are OK again now.

 

[Tom L.]

Yesterday I was thinking "Whoa!... if the Site Administrator is getting blocked, this is a HAL 9000 situation....."

I'm not having any problems so far.

 

[Second Summer]

I've just paid the forum software licence for another year.

About 80% were covered by our wonderful Contributing Members, so thank you! That helps a lot.

 

[Second Summer]

I've just updated the OS with a new kernel version and rebooted so it will run with that version.

The forum was offline for a minute or two. (I didn't see anyone else logged in, so I figured it was a good time for it!)