Very impressed by the clean UI Mbin is bringing to the Fediverse. Really nice!
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Blog updates for Mbin. Upcoming features, issues or anything else related Mbin or the fediverse. Mainly I (Melroy) write updates here.
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Thank you for your kind words.
Thank you all for your work! Happy to use mbin pretty much everyday!
You have no idea how motivating it is to hear, that people use your code ❤️
Haha yes
That is wonderful to hear!
Thank you for the bookmarks!!!!
Thank you for using Fedia/Mbin.
So just curious, kbin.melroy.org requires logging in now? Why, was it being DDOSed in some way?
Correct, I did enable this login option for now, to reduce the impact on application level. Sorry about that.
The attack has been ongoing from Feb 8 2025, until today still. It comes in waves, I dunno who is attacking me or why. I use my firewall to block some of the origin countries where the attacks are coming from. However, the Botnet is located in basically very country on the planet. I migrated to OpenResty and will implement additional anti-DDos measures as well as optimizing Mbin further to reduce CPU overhead.
TLDR;
- Attack started at Feb 8 2025, and still continues
- Attacker is using a botnet from across the globe
- Attacker is using valid GET requests with legit user-agent strings
- Attacker is using both mobile and fixed line ISP types, so these are devices behind various ISPs across the globe. No cloud infrastructure is used.
- Reason of the attack: Unknown
Thanks for the detailed answer. I imagined it was due to something like that. Sounds like a "homebuilt" DDOS platform if its coming from any compromised device, so it could be any number of BS reasons, just simply testing out their botnet, or stressing the server to probe for specific vulnerabilities.
Am i the only one seeing duplicated profile pics next to the usernames? Or did I miss something in the update?
he! You are right! I also now see it, thanks for noticing. I'm actually not running main branch, but this PR: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/pull/1472
I think I exactly set showAvatar
on true within the comment section or something? My bad, I will try to solve this asap again. Obviously this is not wanted :)
Thanks again for reporting.
@SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org I fixed it already :)
Great! Thx, felt a little strange.. :D
Yes it was also not good haha
... custom notification settings to set magazines, users, threads and microblogs to default, loud or muted, ...
Is there any information on how this works, what it's actually doing?
From this post: https://gehirneimer.de/m/mbinReleases/t/486586
The settings are (from left to right):
muted
,default
andloud
.Default respects your global notification settings, while the other two modify it. They are processed hierarchically, meaning a muted user commenting on a loud thread which belongs to a muted magazine will not trigger a notification, while a loud or default user would. Another example: a muted thread in a loud magazine will not trigger a notification for new comments unless the commenting user is set to loud.
Hope this helps :)
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org I tuned out of the Kbin drama for bit. Only coming back to actively using Mbin again recently. IMPRESSIVE improvements!