Notices by disroot (disroot@social.weho.st), page 19

@sergio @punk Actually there is not that much to choose from once you start looking around. Plus you need to implement it in a software which is also not easy.

Though of course contributions to solve this issue are more then welcome :)

@sergio
Very simple. In order to not have milions of accounts created by bots which would mean all the usernames taken we need to use some sort of protection. PWM the application that we use for user registration supports only reCaptcha so we did not have other choice but use it.

We never felt good with that but we also did not have enough time to find a workaround. We are however at the moment working on trying to find a solution:
https://board.disroot.org/project/disroot-disroot/us/1108?milestone=108

Unexpected Server reboot

Most probably due to issue caused by out of memory scenario on one of the virtual containers, our main server has restarted, which caused a downtime of about 15 min. (booting the server, restarting all containers etc).

We will keep an eye on this as it might indicate hardware failure.
#disroot

https://state.disroot.org/incident/66

Nextcloud has just been updated to version 12.04.

Webmail autologin is back! \o/
You will need to put the password one more time.

#disroot #nextcloud

Update:

Thanks to clever engineers who think out of the box in the DataCenter and the fact we have redundant power on our servers (two power suppliers), guys figured a way to keep our servers alive while doing their maintenance work.

So looks like there won’t be a need for downtime.

Due to maintenance work on the Rack in the dataCenter where our servers are located, Disroot will be down for approximately 30 min.
This is totally not dependent on us, as the work done by DataCenter staff requires the power to be off in the entire rack.

We hope this will be a smooth operation and we'll be back online in no time!
#disroot
https://state.disroot.org/incident/63

DIsroot Platform reboot

(4.12.2017 - 2:00 - Amsterdam Localtime)

Due to some security updates we need to restart the host servers. This means all services will be down for no longer then 5 minutes.
#disroot
https://state.disroot.org/incident/62

@ilpianista
Good news. The News app is back to normal \o/

@ilpianista
Yes. Belive me we know the pain. However we have had some non-disroot related emergency last days that took all our time.
Now our life are back to normal so with help of junk food we'll nail it down this weekend 😃

@juansantiago @elmau
Cool. Do you mind if we add it to our searx instance?

Just finished a mumble meetup with community around https://elbinario.net/
It was very cool to meet and talk with some of the disrooters out there and similar minded people. @elbinario

@elmau @elbinario
We use captcha to prevent bots creating thousands of accounts, reserving the usernames that could be used otherwise.

We use re-captcha because thats the only captcha supported by user creation system we use in disroot.

Belive me we are ashamed of it, but until now it was the only way. However we are experimenting with a workaround now which will (if successful) eliminate re-captcha from our systems.

@elmau @juansantiago

**UPDATE:**
Google search results are back. Looks like we've been experiencing some abuse activity last days, which caused google to reject our queries.

We will work in coming days on implementing mechanisms (rate limits etc) that will help prevent this situation.

https://state.disroot.org/incident/61

BTW. Since searx is just a meta search, we could add some yacy instances to the mix. If you guys know any public ones give us a shout. We are thinking of running one in the near future

# No search results from google on our searx instance

We got hit again by google's restrictions on searx instance. Google search has been temporary disabled.

In the meantime new version of searx has been released an hour ago, which is trying to fix that issues. We have just updated it and are waiting for google to let us leach on their service again.

Keep your fingers crossed!
#disroot #searx

https://state.disroot.org/incident/60

@ilpianista
We are aware of it, and we'll look into it asap.
We're also users of that app so without it it feels like without an arm 😋

The issues from last night have been resolved. Both diaspora and Taiga are back to normal now.

Diaspora is still suffering. We have found the issue and fixed it, but it will take time before it catches up with the federation. Until then its pretty much dead.

Additionally we will do some tweaking to prevent this situation from happening in the future.

We're having some performance issue on diaspora.

We're looking into it now.
https://state.disroot.org/incident/54

Ehh morning excitement and lack of ☕

What we meant to say is that you can request aliases / create usernames with a dot ('.') Like: whatever.you.want@disroot.org

Ehh morning excitement and lack of ☕

What meant to say is that you can request aliases / create usernames with dot ('.') Like: whatever.you.want@disroot.org