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[–]magnora7[S] 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (11 children)

How did these pesky cunts got Saidit's IP address in the first place?

We're not totally sure, but it seems to be likely linked to one of the services I mentioned in the original post. Somehow they are able to use one of those services to access the server in a way that bypasses cloudflare and they can then get access to our server's real IP address, and then DDOS the server directly. Basically the next week or two for d3rr and me is going to be figuring this out so it doesn't happen again. It seems most likely to be the chat though imo, so we might have to get a separate cheap server for the chat. But it might also be media server stuff (thumbnails). We have to check everything, so like d3rr said if anyone spots a way to get our real IP address in a way that bypasses cloudflare please tell us! Then we can fix it and make saidit even stronger.

[–]zyxzevn 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Chat is usually a big security problem.
Did you test with ProcessHacker (very easy) or even with GlassWire?

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks. Those look like windows tools, but something like that would surely show our server making a remote connection, exposing its ip.

[–]Alt-Universe 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Probably the IRC server. :(

[–]TheTruthHasNoBias 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Please get rid of the stupid smiley face votes

[–]bobbobbybob 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

no downvoting is an important part of the site. you can always custom style your browser to change the image

[–]TheTruthHasNoBias 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I don't mind no downvoting the smiley face icon makes the site look corny.

you can always custom style your browser to change the image

I'd like to not have to do that. There should be a setting to adjust at least.

[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

site wide setting for one user, or one user installs stylish. hmm

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

What bothers you, the icon or the functionality?

[–]TheTruthHasNoBias 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The icon

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We'll change them soon. If you have any suggestions, other than up and down arrows, send them along.

[–]Divine_Lotus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

or have the option to disable them maybe? You can try checking to se of that's already suggested in the suggestion saidit