Just like dessalines, I was mostly busy this week handling the huge influx of users, first from Hackernews and then from Reddit. At one point the site was brought down completely because of too many open websocket connections (in other words, too many people were on the site at the same time). Luckily this was rather easy to fix with some changes in the nginx config (which I should probably document somewhere).

Another effect was a huge number of new issues and pull requests that had to be answered and reviewed. Of course contributions are very welcome, but they do take time away from other things.

I also setup Grafana to monitor the server. This still needs some improvement to show better stats (wish I had time to dig into that).

We also came under a DDoS attack. Our previous provider wasnt helpful in dealing with this at all, so we moved to OVH instead. Their DDoS attack detected an attack within half an hour of moving the server, and successfully mitigated it. Since then things have finally calmed down.

Today I finally managed to get some actual coding done (for the first time this week). I made some progress migrating to the new version of our ActivityPub library, but its not that straightforward and still needs more work.

There might be other things I’m forgetting, maybe next week I should keep a list or something.